My Idea For My Music Magazine

I have decided I would like to create an ‘indie’ music magazine, aimed at males and females aged 16-20. In order to create my magazine I need to hold a number of research activities, to ensure there is a gap in the market for my product and that my product will meet the requirements in order to compete with other top music magazine brands. 


I am going to start with a questionnaire asking 20 people, 10 male and 10 female from my selected target audience, ages 16-20 to find out what they seek from music magazines.

 My second activity will be to look at the music magazines on offer to people of this age and see if they are fitting the requirements that my audience have specified on my questionnaire. 

My next research activity will be an annotated example of a music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread to help me identify the key codes and conventions of an actual music magazine, which will also help when I come to apply these factors to the construction of my magazine to create a professional looking product. 

My final research task will be to look into web based research into the target audience, then write an essay also discussing the representations of people in my chosen genre of music magazine.