Chosen magazine name-Alternative Sound

Final name ideas (Alternative Sound, Promote. and IRM)

Magazine name ideas

Contents page artist ideas/planning

Photography planning inspiration/collage of ideas

Photography ideas (planning)

Setting ideas (inspiration/planning) for my feature artist photo-shoot

Picture collage (ideas/inspiration) for my magazines feature artist

Feature artist (portfolio) for my music magazine

Annotation of my readership profile collage

Readership Profile-collage ideas

Readership Profile (for my music magazine)

Initial ideas for my music magazine

Analysing Q magazine-Feature Article

Analysing Q magazine-contents page

Analysing Q magazine-front cover

Research into Q magazines target audience

Mark Ellen and David Hepworth (the founders of Q) felt that older music buyers were being ignored so they targeted their magazine at music buyers over twenty five years old of both genders. Instead of aiming at teenagers and young people as most other music magazines do.
The fact that the target audience is slightly older means the magazine can afford to be more expensive than if it were to be aimed at young people as the target audience they are aiming at are likely to have a greater income and be prepared to spend more on a music magazine. Having an older audience means that magazine can contain more information about the old ‘classic’ albums and music from the past decades. Having a mass audience due to its popularity the magazine could also be referred to as having a niche audience, as it is specifically aimed at only music fans.

v  The magazine has an  review section, featuring: new releases, reissues, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio and TV reviews.

vThe magazine is well known for compiling lists. It has created many, for example, "The 100 Greatest albums" and "100 Greatest '100 Greatest' Lists".

vEvery other month, Q has a special edition-about musical time, genres, or a very important/influential musician.

vEvery issue of Q has a different message on the spine. Readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the magazine. The spine also consist of the different artists that are featured within the magazine-giving readers a quick and straight forward way to know if they will enjoy the issue and make buying (choosing) the magazine more efficient.

Analysing feature articles

Analysing feature articles

Purpose of a contents page