In this task I looked into different music artists and looked into different music genres. I learnt the different types of people who produce different kinds of music. This will help me in the future in m y tasks as i will be able to see what kids of people should be on my front cover and contents pages in order to appeal to the correct target audience and using the correct genre.
Task 2 video diary.
Magazines come in all different types of genres. Examples of these are car magazines, gossip magazines, fashion magazines and many more.
The magazine genre that I am looking into is the music genre. These genres and sub genres include, rock, pop, jazz classical and hip hop. A music magazine includes music, current artists, the making of music, music culture gossip about music and the music industry.
There are lots of very popular music magazines like Top of the pops, NME, rolling stones and many more. NME is associated with rock and indie music. Billboard is associated with pop music. Top of the pops is usually the teenage current music and top charts.
Over the past years there have been a drop in magazine sales as people can know look up the information on the internet. To prevent this magazines have made it so you can only subscribe to these magazines which helps the sales a lot as people find it more difficult to then get there information.
The biggest magazine publisher in the UK is Bauer, they have over 25 million consumers in the UK itself. Bauer publish very famous music magazines such as MOJO and Q. This may be because, these two genres are popular amongst the target audience.
Pop music magazines is also a popular genre as they have the biggest target audience which is generally females ages 13-18 in secondary school. And a secondary target audience of females aged 21+. They are also very popular as they interest a lot of the audience and have many different celebrities that can fit into the pop genre. Chart music today usually revolves around Pop music, so this could be why the magazines are popular.
The artists that are on the covers are usually the ones in the limelight at the moment or have issued an album or a song or have new about their career. This helps them a lot with spreading the word of there album or new single.
Overall, I found out that pop and rock genres are very popular within the music magazine industry.
In this task I looked at 2 different magazine publishers, there history and what they include and produce. I looked at genres and the pricing and lots of extra information about them. I looked at mass vs niche publishes, in this task I looked at Bauer media and Anthem publishing and looked into depth about each of them.
This is my wordle, i chose to use these words because they all are related to music magazines and are all relevant. Within my wordle there are words of the magazine names, features of what you would see on a front cover of a magazine, what is written in magazines and what they show and are about. i found out that magazines have a target audience and have a colour pattern going on within there magazine, they also all use most of the same features and use the same techniques.
Hi, im Anna i am 17 years old and i study at JCoSS. I have chosen to do media A level not only have i done it in previous years but i also thorourghly enjoyed it and want to further my skills and my knowledge.
The brief
This is media A level however the first year is an AS. My AS coursework counts as 50% of my final AS media grade. The task we have got given is to research into media magazines and what is popular in the magazine industry. We will also be making our own magazines which has a front page, contents page and a double page spread, which is relevant to the music genre of magazines. I will focus on a target audience which i will be targeting and working towards with my magazine.
