Target Audience

A typical reader for my magazine would be someone who, obviously, someone who is quite passionate about the industry, or the music itself. They would have to have the disposable income to go to the concerts (and of course buy the magazine) but my target audience would not be upper or middle class. They would not be excluded of course, but I wouldn't aim to attract them in any way. I would steer clear of A or B side of demographics. This makes my market quite narrow, but there is a large number of people, like me, who fit into that category; and i feel that they would appreciate being a small market, as it would make them feel more individual in their tastes. There is no real stereotypical psychographic category you can fit my desired target audience, just lovers of the music, whoever they may be. It is a sociable encouraging magazine.

Intro to Music Magazine Task

For this task, my understanding is that we are required to create and design (through research) our own music magazine for a target audience of our choice. I have chosen Alternative rock as my genre, but this can spread to Am-Rock, Heavy Rock and punk. I intend on making my magazine target younger music listeners - around 15 - 20 year olds. This is as it will be in my comfort zone. This task is a continuation from the previous task, which was a preliminary task to develope our skills. I have included a link to the prelim blog below.

Link to preliminary task blog: http://sdcmediaasbenmorley.blogspot.com/

As you can see in this flat plan, the layout is very busy, this is as i feel that this is a typical convention for the magazine's aimed at my desired audience. The colour choices i've displayed were chosen for their vibrancy, as they have the capability of catching the eye of a mid-teenager.This compliments my choice for a busy cover, as it shows a variety of content. The title implies that the reader is now: "In the Know" but there is an intended pun with this to show the excitement of being: "In the Know". A place every fresher wants to be.

In the designing of the contents page i orientated it around humor, and this drove the decision to draw a little tent next to the word "tent". The rest of the layout was just down to what i felt a contents page should consist of normally. However the titles of each page were purposely humorous. The message from the Editor (although not written out) was just what i like to see in a regular magazine, and so i included it, as - along with the humor - i felt it appealed to my target audience of mid-to-late teens.

This was another possibility

i chose this one for my main picture for my cover, because he (simply as i can put it) embodied the word "Fresher". There was a nice neutral blue in the background, which complimented my colour scheme, and a wood framing near the title. It seemed perfect.

In creating my final designs for my finished magazine cover, i think that my attempt at the task was a successful one. I'm pleased with my picture - as I see them as relevant - and am especially pleased with my title (as I feel it has the right amount of edginess to appeal to the target audience) in terms of font ans style. Plus I love the name. I still feel that it could have had a better layout plan, as (originally) I planned to use some different designs for the `menu` on the left hand side of the cover page. This would have taken time however. Obviously i would like to know what your opinions are of it so that i can keep up my facade that I am modest. So any comments are welcome.
Thank you in advance

Introduction to my student magazine

For this task we have been asked to design and create a magazine to replace the current issue. In the task, we are required to come up with a concept for a front cover and a contents page. After designing this to an acceptable standard on 'indesign' we will have to evaluate our final project. My target audience will be first year students.