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.