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Danny, there is still a lot of planning material that needs to be completed and added to your blog, including mock-ups of your main pages and a schedule. You also need plans for your photos, which need to be taken for our return to college....

First draft of my article.

This is a mock up of my article for my music magazine.
I have now realized what i need to do to improve the article and make it as good as possible.
 I need a catchy headline maybe a pun using the word curiosity.
 I also need to stick to one type of interview. I start this article as an indirect interview but then it turns into a direct one later on. I need to be careful with my punctuation and spelling to make sure its all correct.

Audience survey

I decided to do a survey to try and see if my music magazine would be a success. I asked 20 poeple if they buy music magazines and how often and which magazines they buy.
Q1) Do you buy music magazines? if so how often?
Yes weekly - 8
Yes monthly-7
No never-5

Q2) Which music magazines do you buy out of the ones listed?
Q-4
NME-6
Kerrang-5
None-5

Q3) How often do you buy/download music?
Regularly-8
Often-3
Rarely-5
Never-4


As you can see from these results the majority of the 20 people i asked these questions to buy magazines of the indie genre. Only 5 people from the survey dont buy music magazines at all which means three quarters of the people i asked are willing to buy music magazines. Also only 5 people dont buy any of the music magazines that i listed which means the other 15 people are willing to buy music magazines that are of a similar genre to what mine will be.
      Also 16 of the people in my survey download or pay for the genre of music that i am going to make my magazine about. This shows the indie fans are loyal to their genre of music and are willing to pay for it which means there is a seeling point for my magazine.

Feedback

I think you are only lacking an audience survey now in your research? You could also develop some of these posts a little more - use my comments to work on these over Christmas. You need now to get a move on with getting your planning online now. This is of a good basic standard but a little more work would make it more proficient!

Can you try and label every post to tell me where it belongs - research, planning, production?

Analyse the indie genre

The indie genre is usually most popular with students or young teens. I think the indie genre speaks out to its target audience more than most because many of the fans aspire to be like the artists. Most indie concerts are full of people dressed like the artists with the jeans  and usually a dark jacket. The most popular thing is the hair. Most indie artists have quite long brown hair and their fans arent shy of trying to copy them. As you can see to the left is a picture of the 'Arctic Monkeys'. As you can see everyone of them is wearing a zip down jacket which seems to be invlolved in most bands of the indie genre. Also 2 of the 4 members of the band have long brown hair which is common in most indie bands.

This band to the left is 'The View'. They are a very popular indie band and support the strereotype with all the band members having long hair and all wearing quite dark clothing. They really appeal to their target audience alot because of their appearence and then they let the music do the talking aswell.

Journalistic style of an article

This is an article from a music magazine similar to what i will be making. This article involves the journalist talking about the band included anbd then using quotes of what the band said when he was there with them. When i do my magazine i will have to make sure that i dont simply make my article a Q&A with the band. The language in this article is a mixture of formal and not formal.Nearly all of the article is formal except for just a few quotes such as "its filthy."This is one of the only quotes that is actually informal .There are plenty of pictures in this article. They have made it so there is much more space taken up by pictures than there is with words. This keeps people interested because if this was 2 pages of mainly wrtiting most people wouldnt be bothered to read it.                                              

Instituition to produce my magazine.

Research Feedback

There is some good research here, Danny, but there are still a few gaps to plug. Look over the grid in your yellow booklet and try and complete these tasks asap. You need also to go back over my comments and add to some of these posts to improve them further.

The institution to produce and distribute my magazine.

For my magazine publisher i have chosen IPC media because they have produced many well known magazines on the shelves in britain today. Almost two thirds of the females in britain purchase magazines published my IPC media  and 44% of men in britain purchase them . Just these figures alone show me that this would be an impressive place to have my magazine published. They produce both NME and UNCUT which shows they know how to advertise and make magazines of the indie genre sell. Also i would choose IPC media because they produce 2 indie music magazines that sell really well in the shops. This means they must know how to make the magazines the similar genres but also different enough for people to like reading both. This is exactly what i would need to make my magazine to succeed, because i would use these magazines as a framework but then work on its unique selling point to make it sell as well or better than NME and UNCUT. This big corperation would also help alot from  an advertising point of view. They could get my magazine out there trying to sell more than the competition by proper advertising and making sure my magazine is heard of. This is because to mkae money it cant just be out there it needs to become known so this company would make sure my magazine was getting advertised in many other forms of media .