Monday, 2 November 2015

Focussing on Research for your Music Magazine

Main Task for the next two Weeks
Explore Music magazines
Research (Label)
Our Research will support our work for the Evaluation questions that we complete next term
Task One 
Completed by (Thursday lesson)
Post the following
List and download (Cover Images) as many Music Magazines as you can find. Use Google/Images. 

Find out the following information about the magazines and provide individual blogs about the following

Task 2
Do they belong to any specific genre regarding Target Audience and musical Tastes


  1. Heavy Metal 
  2. Pop 
  3. Rock’n’Roll 
  4. Multi Genre (All tastes) 
  5. Hip Hop 
  6. Rap etc
Task 3
Do any of these Music genres interest You (Provide a post explain why you might be interested.)

Task 4
Choose as least 3 possible style models ( Real Magazines of your Choice)
How much does the magazine cost?
How regularly are the magazines published?
How many issues have been printed

Task 5
Find out about the company (Instituation)  that creates these magazines.
Are they from big Institutions e.g. EMAP. Bauer Media etc or Smaller publishers?
Can you find any distribution figures for each magazine (Number of people who read it

Task 6
Who is the audience for this magazines

Task 7
Who are the bands/Artists who feature each Magazine. Are they Local - National - Global stars

Next Step
After completing the tasks we will focus on the Conventions of a Music magazine
We are now going to look at the conventions of this magazine