My first Mast Head Idea

Identifying my target audience

Below is a link to my Prezi on identifying my target audience.

http://prezi.com/fbhousv8r4ta/target-audience/#

Research- Questionnaire

I have created a questionnaire for other students to complete for me to continue to research and plan my magazine as a result of gaining information on what people would like to see in a magazine.

http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/mrstee/music-magazine-research/view
This link takes you to the website which shows the information on the results that I have gained from viewing the responses from the questionnaire.

From this research I have found out that from the people who have taken this questionnaire, they read magazines rarely. This may be due to the magazines that are already available aren't interesting for them or doesn't contain the information about the bands and music that they enjoy. As a result of this when creating my magazine I am going to try and create it so that it is different and stands out from other magazines that are available.

Another aspect that I have learned from the questionnaire is that the majority of people like Indie Rock, however other than this the rest of the genres are equally liked. This shows that from the people who have taken this questionnaire have a varied liking in music which allows me to create a magazine that it open to most music genres to appeal to a large group of people.

The magazines that the people are currently reading is the Kerrang magazine, from knowing this I am going to look at the Kerrang magazine to see what the magazine does well and what makes it favourable of others and what makes it successful as a magazine.

   

Reseach of different shot types

I have done some reseach to find out about some different types of shots in media for my magazine reseach. As a result of this I have created an small anaylsis of the different shot types. This research has tought me what the different types of shots are and how you take them as a result. Below are images that show my anaylsis of the different shot types;

What is the Uses and Gratification Theory

What is the "Uses and Gratification Theory?

The Uses and Gratification Theory deals with the effect of people with the media. The Gratification theory describes mass communication to its audience, it does this by providing the audience with information that it wants. The theory is very audience centred. The theory adopts specific media, for example magazines, to give the audience what is wants.

Example of the gratification theory

Using the Gratification theory on this image, that shows that the artist Tinie Tempah, shows that he means business in the way that he is standing, this shows the audience/reader of the magazine that he knows what he is doing and should be respected as a result. For the target audience of this specific edition of the magazine it is aimed at rap/pop audiences, as a result of this the audience is looking for an image in which they would want to see a specific image. As a result of this due to rap/pop being serious and gives usually has a meaning about them deep within the song about some of the worlds problems, this image is a perfect fit to this as Tinie Tempah has a straight face showing that the subject at matter is a laughing or a fun occasion, possibly showing that he wants to prove a point and possibly put some light on a area of the world. 

Research- Magazine Front Cover 3

Research- Magazine Front Cover 2