November 3rd 2008

I began the Main Task, starting and finishing task one. For task one, I needed to make the decisions of what type of magazine I intended to produce, and the target audience. I had already decided this, having looked at many different magazines and decided based off my creative interest. I have chosen to create an ‘Indie’ style magazine, with the target audience being teenagers and young adults (age range about 16-25 year olds).

Our teacher then started explaining task two to the class: ‘You now need to conduct research into existing music magazines. If there are magazines already produced which would be competitors to your magazine then you should focus on these.’ I focused on magazines such as Kerrang!, Q, NME and Mojo. I chose these magazines in particular as they all deal with independent music in some way within their selection of interest.

There are five different categories of research we need to make notes on:
Prices
Frequency of publication
Issue size (number of pages)
Regular content
Feature articles