Your magazine genre and target audience

Your task today is to work on deciding the genre and target audience of your magazine

You must reasearch two magazines which already exist within the genre you are interested in (if you're still undecided choose a well known genre to work with for now) and analyse the effectiveness of the following elements, looking at how they help make it appealing to its target audience:

• what are the colour schemes?
• cost?
• the content - what kind of topics are the articles about?
• how the magazine distributes, markets and sells itself
• is there and online version? is it defferent to the print version?

You must also analyse similarities / differences in the use of conventions on the front covers, contents pages and a double page spread from inside the magazine. Pay particular

You will need to post all your work on your blog.

Follow the links below to see examples of this work completed on students' blogs from last year:

Blog 1
Blog 2

Section B: Music Industry Useful Articles

Here are some useful articles to digest before your exam:

http://www.emimusic.com/news/2011/emi-announces-successful-capital-restructuring-and-change-of-ownership/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16382648

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/16/2567284/google-music-launching-with-universal-emi-sony-music-and-many