Analysing Music Magazines

THIS BLOG IS ABOUT AS MEDIA STUDIES COURSE WORK 2009.

I have just finished analysing my chosen two music magazines: 'Rolling Stone' - August 2007 adition and 'Kerrang' - January 2009 adition.

I firstly started off by anotating the pages i had chosen to analyise, selecting parts of each page that i wanted to bring up and talk about. I then started analysing these pages from each magazine: the cover, the contents page and one of the double page spreads (main stories). I had to talk about colour, font, images, content, layout and mode of address used on each page. This took up about 2 pages on each page i was talking about. I also referred to the 'Principle of Thirds' when talking about the layout.

What now? Well, i've started coming up with names for the music magazine i am about to create. I have thought about what genre i want it to include (indie, rock) and have decided it will be aimed at both male and females. I haven't yet thought about anything else to do with my actual magazine yet i still have to summarise my findings, write about the target audience of music magazines, make a questionnaire about the magazine i am going to create for others to fill out, take possible photos that will be featured in my magazine, come up with drafts and make a powerpoint presentation on all of the above to evaluation my reasearch in order to make my finished product.