indie music

mark sheet 3

evaluation prelim task

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

schedule

week one of my actual music magazine 15/11/13:
I conducted research on other music magazines and tyred to reach a conclusion of were my magazine would encounter problems in the future such as i found that the start up would be the most difficult as the magazine industry is dipping

week two 29/11/13:
Started audience research with helpful advice from OCR the first subject being origins of my genre/ sub genre

week 3 5/12/13:
I have completed my title mood board and have decided on a title and have also done a font mood board but cannot decide on a font at the moment

week 4 12/12/13:
I have unidentified my target audience but still can not decide on a font

week 5 20/12/13:
I made a prezi presentation on the origins and evolution of indie music

week 6 10/1/14:
started a case study on kerrang and create a survey on survey monkey

week 7 17/1/14:
completed institution case study  

week8 24/1/14
completed a second contents page analysis

week 9 31/1/14
planing and disscussing where i should take my pictures with the model for the picture and some of my frenids

week 10 6/2/14
gathered double page spread examples to help my self get an idea of what sort of article i should write and how it should look

week 11 14/2/14
i created sell line for my music magazine but decied in the end that they were not the final editions

week 12 3/3/14
I made a prezi on the diffrent genres of music and how they have evolved to get a feel on how music has changed and how the type of audiences have changed
 

target audience profile

age: 
16-35

gender: 
both

life style choices/ hobbies:
musicians
outgoing
they like live music

demographic profile:
middle and lower class
17000-35000 a year
could be any job

description of my typical reader:
an out going person that likes to watch gigs, with a 9-5 job and ether single, has a partner or has kids

my magazine will target my audience by : 
providing competitions to win gig tickets and opportunity to buy them and have an instruments of the week spread showing the best guitars, drum sets and so on for musicians. there will also be a spread regarding new and unknown bands giving them a chance to become big and lastly will provide interviews, back story and all available news regarding the big bands

mast head mood board

                   


all of the people i asked about the font above said it was confusing and not nice to look at so i instantly ruled this one out




most people said that this font looks kind of urban and so i decided it is not fit for a progressive/indie rock based magazine but some said it represents the difficult path that comes with being a musician





one person pointed out that it make her think it is a disco magazine as the disco is emphasised with the slanted v






a lot of people said that this font was good as it sticks out and has a kind of in your face atmosphere some people also said that it can represent the indie genre as it started out with a rebellious theme and this masthead really captures that

tile mood board and chosen title

essence
beck
live indie
ashes
undiscovered


UNDISCOVERED:
i am going to use undiscovered as my title because when indie first started nearly all the indie bands were not signed to a major label so were not discovered until later when indie started to grow. and i can also put indie bands who have not been signed yet in my mag also but i have also got the opinion of my chosen audience range(which affected my choice greatly)  by asking directly which they thought would be best and 5 out of 7 chose undiscovered and the other 2 chose essence