Conclusion of research

Throughout my research I have found it very useful and beneficial to me due to the fact I have better knowledge and a clear understanding on what to include on my front covers, double page spread and contents page. I have learnt a lot about backgrounds, textual analysis, genres and target audiences within music magazines.

The analysis of the front covers, cover pages, contents page and double page spread helped me to identify the target audiences in a magazine and what needs to be indued in order to appeal to that audience. I learnt the common themes within music magazines and what tends to be on each page. 

The background/context part of my previous tasks helped me to gain insight into the history of music magazines. 

This helped me to decide what genre I wanted to make my magazine aimed at and I gained a lot of information on what genres and wants fonts are needed. 

Also in the background/context of my research I completed tasks including a video diary, a wordle and much more. when producing the video diary I felt it was a good opportunity to fit a lot of information into a short video. It also helped me by using all different web tools so I gained knowledge on how to do certain things. I also researched into two contrasting publishers with one being a big company and the other being a small company. This was mass vs niche publishcations. This helped me get insight into ways that magazines are produced. 

I learnt a lot the gratifications theory, I found this an interesting task and it was useful as I now know what magazines aims are to create and there person identity. This will help me when doing my own one as I can apply the same theory to my own magazine.

In the next section I was deciding what magazine genre I was going to make my magazine. by carrying out this research I was able to find out a lot more about the pop music genre and what to include in my own one. 

looking at my genre (pop) magazines this has helped me get a really good idea as to how my magazine will work as I can use the same concepts and layouts as the magazines I have analysed. This also helped me to see what language techniques were used and what kind of fonts and colours also were. 

Following this I researched general textual analysis of Pop magazines. I looked at two front covers, followed by an contents page and double page spreads. I looked a lot into how they function and what is shown on each of the. 

finally I researched into my target audience and found my primary, secondary and tertiary audience. I am now ready to go into the production of my magazine as I have a lot of knowledge and clear path of what to do with my magazine. 

Target audience - Emaze

In this task I had to choose which age group I would like to view my magazine first. I choose to do a magazine that could appeal to females, females are the primary audience aged 16-22 as I thought at this age you don't want the cheesy gossip magazines, but you want the more grown up magazines but also with gossip in, so I thought this was a perfect aged group. I then looked at my second audience and this included both sex's as a magazine can appeal to any sex that chooses to read it and I would greater the age range to do so. Then I looked at my tertiary audience and made this age range wider and think about who I didn't think would immediately pick up this magazine but who can also read it and get some enjoyment out of it. I used go the website Avachara to make my model audience and dress then on how i think they would look and what i was expecting so i could get a better picture on who may be reading my magazine.

Preliminary Task and Evaluation

For this preliminary task i was asked to create a school magazine front cover and contents page using photoshop. I have used photoshop previously as I did media GCSE so I knew how to use it and this made rework quicker and more efficient. I have practiced loads of tools and how to do many things so when I do my real one I will know what i want, where and the quickest way to do it. i have also further my knowledge on how to use photoshop and what worked well and what did work well when completing this task. 

POP moodboard

This is my mood board task. I took the pop genre and songs and made my own mood board. I used pictures of famous arenas and celebrities and i also used pictures of there fans. I the used iMovie to produce a moodbaord with many songs put together and different pictures on every beat.

summarising what i have learnt from textual analysis.

completing the textual analysis tasks i have made me further my knowledge on how to use certain tools and also my knowledge about magazines and the pop industry.
The analysis of the front covers, cover pages, contents page and double page spreads were very helpful for me as i now know what the target audience look for and the important parts and the less important parts of a magazine. I feel a lot more confident when i do my own magazine as i also found out specific details to include and what works well and what should and shouldn't be included.
The task of uses and gratifications theory was very useful and i can apply it to my up coming magazine.
All magazine need to include a theory so by researching into this one as made me more confident when i start my own cover. I will know what needs to be added to fit the demands of the theory and what works well and what doesn't work so well.
I also now know whats popular with my genre and the target audience so i can apply this when designing my own.

uses and gratifications to a pop magazine

In this task I look at a magazine and used the uses and gratifications to analysis it and find out about the throes and what I need to do to apply it to my magazine. I found out what people look at and what should and shouldn't be included.

introduction to uses and gratifications

During this task I look at the introduction of uses and gratifications, i found out the throes and researched into it so I could further my knowledge of the theory and be able to apply it when doing the next task of applying it to magazine.

analysing double page spread X2 Prezi

In this task i analysed to double page spread magazines of the genre pop. I look into the font, colour, target audience, quotes and the celebrities. I look at how the page was set up and what interests the audience the most and whats eye catching and the text it self. I looked at two different ones and presented them both through a prezi.

analysing 2 contents pages with my chosen genre pop

For this task I looked at two different contents pages with my genre of pop. I look at the target audience, the font, colour, who was the main image and what they were trying to get across, how the text is set out and what is included. I looked at two different magazines, Billbaord and Top of the pops.

electropop- subgenre

For this task I have looked at the sub genres of pop, I came across bubble gum pop, country pop, electro pop and a few more; however I have decided to explore the sub genre electropop.
I have researched more into electropop; the history, development, style of music, the target audiences and their influence of other people.

Electropop is a musical genre which combines electronic music and pop music. Electropop songs are electronic and pop songs, and are often with simple, catchy hooks and simple dance beats to the song. The sub genre became very popular during the 1980's and has still remained popular. Electropop began to appear in the late 1970's with the "robot pop" of German band Kraftwerk.

The genre has changed so much, by keeping up with the trends and younger audiences. electronic dance music is now very popular with the current audience. 

There have been many awards for artists that have produced electropop. For example calvin Harris won 2 MTV awards in 2012, one being for his music video of the year and the other one being best video of electronic single. Avicii has also won many awards regarding electronic music. 


Electropop was mostly played in clubs this is where people would hear the songs when there out, and then it would become more and more popular. Now people listen to electropop music on spotify and other music apps. 

There a different kind of magazines that are specific to this sub genre, an example is MixMag.  MixMag is a British music magazine which has aspects that focus on the sub genre electropop, which is also electric dance music. 

There are many electropop music wrists such as Lady Gaga, Kesha, David Bowie, Madonna.

The type of people that are mostly likely to listen to Electropop music are men ages 18-24.

analysing 2 front covers magazines of the chosen genre - pop.