Thursday, 28 January 2010

Media Survey

this is a market reasearch survey i made for magazine reasearch

Please could you fill in this survey on your interests in music magazines

Please circle
1) Are you male or female?
Male female
2) How old are you?
10-14 15-19 20+
3) How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?
£1-2.50 £3-4.50 £5+
4) Would you prefer competitions free gifts or both
Competition free gift both
5) What is you preferred genre
Pop k-pop rock j-rock j-pop RnB
6) How often do you buy music magazines?
Weekly Monthly quartlerly yearly
7) Would you like a page to write in and share your views?
Yes no
8) Would you like a puzzle and horoscope page?
Yes No
9) Would you like Artist profiles on various bands?
Yes no
10) Would you like info on their fan bases or their company to contact them?
Yes No

and here are some of my results

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Research and planning so far

So far i had done careful consideration into what genre i wnated to create a music magazine on and i chose a genre i have a strong passion for which is korean pop ( k-pop)

i purchased two magazine Bromide and Wawa Girl which are big magazines in korea for reporting on kpop. i studied both magazines and discovered that these are the key conventions
-Free posters and star stickers
- Bold Lettering
Korean Movie + Drama reviews included
-song lyrics
-puzzles and quizzes
-celebrity style pages
- interviews with a variety of artists
-audience pages for fan drawn pictures and comments
- double page interview for every artist with about 5 pics for a solo artist or more if its a group
- writing is spaced out underneath or next to pictures
-artist profiles
- bold titles on every page with bright colours
-competitions

here is a picture of the magazine wawa girl

I then started to think about planning and i have decided between two names which im still deciding on which is either seoul beats/music or Kpop jjang as jjang is a korean word for love but the pun on seoul links to the country of where all the music is produced.

In class we started doing a rough sketch of our front cover i had decided to do a valentines edition . i have uploaded a picture of my design below