Target Audience

The target audience for my magazine will be girls over the age of 16, i will have to make sure that the cover appeals to the target audience as it would be very easy for it to appeal to a younger audience if i am not careful, i will have to make sure that I dont use to much of teh clour pink on the cover as that may make the magazine appeal to a younger audience. I will be able to make the magazine appeal to an older audience by using an older model for the main photo on the cover.

Moodboard

Within this moodboard i have included a variety of images that relate to pop music, it has inspired me with objects to include in the photo on the front of my magazine and sections of the double page spread. In industry designers will create moodboards to inspire them and also to communicate indeas through a vast number of images, often on a very broad subject to help it eb explained and to communicate their intentions.

What is Indie?

Coursework Start

Today, I will be starting coursework in media. For the coursework i will be designing and creating the front cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine. For the magazine i will need a specific genre so that i can determine who my target audience will be and then decide on all furthur elements of the magazine such as the colour scheme, font style, masthead, overall mood of the cover and the picture to be used on the cover and then what will be included in the contents page and double page spread. The cover will be extremely important as it is all that the customers will see when deciding whether or not to purchases the magazine or not. To help me to make my effective and up to the standard of the current market i will be analysing exsisting magazines.

The genre i have chosen to use for my magazine is Pop. I will be aiming the magazine at girls aged 16 and over.

Preliminary Excercise

Current Favourite Song

This is a song my amateur singer Charlee Drew who broadcasts all of his music through video sharing website 'Youtube'

The song i have chosen was writen by Charlee and is my favourite song at the moment for many reasons but mainly for the unique voice that charlee has, the uplifting melody and the heartfelt lyrics. I eally like this song because its real feel-good music which one of the main reasons that i enjoy listening to the song so much.

Richard Dyer- The Matter of Images

Dyer said: 'How we are seen determines how we are treated, how we see them.' How we see them comes from representation.

I used this theory to help my analyse a programme.

The programme that I have chosen to analyse is 'Skins' which is an energetic drama based on the lives of a group pf 6 rowdy teenagers and is shown on channel 4. Stereotypes are very prominent throughout the series and teenagers are shown mainly in a bad light and scenes of unprotected sex, drug taking and a bad attitude towards education are shown frequently. After studying Rayner's theory of representation I have been able to further discover the decisions that the director/producer has made to display the way in which the 17 years olds have been represented.

All of the scenes shown at the school feature, truancy, complete disregard or utter lack of interest in learning, disrespect to the teachers and an overall bad attitude, the view of the teenagers that is represented within the programme is farcely stereotypical and shows a very narrow minded and one sided point of view.

Another theorist, Richard Dyer argues the importance of images and the way in which people treat people because of the way they look, what they are wearing and there overall appearance, in the programme I analysed.