Thursday, 22 October 2015

Moodboard Analysis

Moodboard Analysis

Target Audience
The product that I have chosen to make will be a pop punk/pop rock/ rock/ alternative music magazine, I have chosen to base my product around these genres, as they are what I enjoy listening to and know a fair bit about as I read these types of magazines.
On this Moodboard I have chosen many bands that fit into these genres and other products that I believe people who like that sort of music would also like. The bands that feature on my moodboard all link together by the fact that their audience/ fans are all roughly the same. These are the type of bands that I will base my product around and will include that particular style of music in my magazine.
The products I included on my moodboard are those that I think the audience of my magazine would use, this includes items such as phones, computers and certain social media websites e.g. Twitter and Instagram. I have also included items such as clothing brands and shoes. The target audience for my product is teenagers/ late teens, both male and female.

Advertisers
The products I have chosen to advertise in my magazine are those I believe my target audience would want to know more about/ possibly buy. I have included clothing brands that I think my target audience would buy/ wear clothes from. I also included certain bands that have new albums out and I think would advertise/ promote them or their up and coming tours in my magazine. There are camera brands, music shops, phone companies and social media brands also featured, as that is what my target audience like. One part of my moodboard features festivals, concerts/ concert venues and train companies, I have chosen to include these on here because many people from my target audience will attend concerts at these venues and will need transport to get to them so the train company may include offers etc.


Advertisers Moodboard


Target audience moodboard


Thursday, 15 October 2015

Preliminary task contents page


Preliminary task front cover


College Magazine Analysis


student magazine questionnaire results


Student Magazine Questionnaire Results

The first question that was asked on my questionnaire was ‘do you read the student magazine?’ looking at the results from this questionnaire I can see that 90% of the people that answered said that they do not read a student magazine. This means that the product would most likely not work, however I am going to use the results from the following questions in this questionnaire to see if I can make a product with content that people will want to read.
The next question asked what three colours would attract you to a magazine cover; the top five colours from this list were red, black, white, blue and green. When making my front cover for the magazine I will take on board this information to come up with a suitable colour scheme that incorporates around three/ four of these colours. This is important to do so as these are the main colours that people said they would like to see on the cover.
Another question asked was ‘when would you like the magazine to be published’, the majority of people said that they would like the magazine to be published monthly, this means that there will be around 10 issues made each year. However ‘termly’ got the same percentage as monthly so this question wasn’t entirely conclusive.
A question that also didn’t have a very clear answer was how much should we charge for the college magazine. The answers weren’t very clear as most people either said they would pay nothing or 50p. When I make the magazine I think I will charge 50p, as there will be ‘freebies’ inside.
The subjects that have been decided as the content for the magazine are: music, food, fashion, revision advice and competitions. These were chosen by the people who answered the questionnaire, so including these in the magazine would hopefully mean that more people would buy the magazine.
An incentive that was extremely popular was including free vouchers/ offers in the magazine, 95% of people said that they would be interested if these were in the magazine.

70% of people said that they would like to see either a student or a piece of students work feature on the front cover, this could include art, photography or graphics students.