final centre page spread

inital idea

My first idea
Targeted Audience: Age 24-32, Male, Niche Market.

Sub Genre: heavy metal

Title: Disturbed

Ideas for Front Page Image: Medium shot of a group of people all looking angry wearing dark clothes

Ideas for Double Page Spread: a different band with a medium close up of the band and have a story about them
Ideas for contents Page: a few pictures down the right and side with the information about the band on the left hand column

final idea
Targeted Audience: 17-23, Male/Female, Niche Market

Sub genres rock metal punk rock, pop punk

Title: Beserk
Ideas for Front Page Image: Medium close-up of a group between 3-5 of people posing and looking like a suitable band for my magazine

Ideas for Double Page Spread: image of the band with the big picture on the contents page with a short story about them
Ideas for Contents Page: a lot of pictures with a slightly larger one at the left hand side similar to the way kerrang set up theres.

To create my final product I used the media convention other other rock / metal magazines I used a mix of both metal hammer and kerrang but I mostly used kerrang to help me. I used these magazine as I enjoy reading these types of magazines and enjoy the style of music they focus on I find the layout of the magazine look quite cool so I tried to adapt the style to my own magazine with the photos and text formats.

My magazine mainly focuses on rock and metal band but also consists of allot of punk rock bands. For my front cover I tried to take a photo of a group of people who look like they could be a punk rock band so that they look like a popular rock band to make it look professional.

The target audience for my magazine is from 17 to 21 years. The reason for this is that the contents in this magazine are mostly understood by this age group. The gender target will be both males and females the increases the possible market size for the magazine. Beserk magazine will be a niche magazine like kerrang.

Independent company's will most likely distribute my magazine for me this will be because the circulation of the magazine will be quite small due to it been a new product on the market. The magazine will be promoted in many ways but mainly by the use of the Internet over the radio and by the use of posters and advertising boards as these are all quite cheap to advertise in comparison to television and are all known for getting there point across effectively.

beserk reader profile

Male: 67%
Female 33%
average age 21
working full time : 48%
Working part time: 11%
still studying: 41%
ABC1 62%
Circulation – 21,529
Readership - 131,916
ABCe Unique Users - 1,416,567
Games And Games Consoles:
£162 spent on consoles in the last year
£118 spent on games - total readership spends £23m
82% recieve cable or digital channels.
Berserk readers agree that
They enjoy life and don't worry about the future - 53%
Its important to be up-to-date - 46%
It's worth more paying for quality goods - 65%
They like to try new things - 61%
It's important to look the part - 79%

Going out and spending
Unplugged readers spend:
£126 a year on shoes/trainers.
Total Readership spends - £27m

£427 a year on clothes
Total Readership spends - £235m

£536 on audio equipment per year
Total Readership spends - £145m

58% own a digital camera
£98 on digital cameras per year
Total Readership spends - £2,784

Buy a average of 12 DVD'S a year
Total Readership spends - £1
2.3m
spend £59 a year on DVD'S
Total Readership spends - £23m

convensions of a double page spread

1. Colours of the magazine that go with the genre, e.g. using dark limited clolours if the magazine is a heavy metal magazine.

3. photo and images that are genre related, eg the way they will edit a photo to suit the genre such as for a pop mag will make it seem more light colors and effects to make it stand out and grab peoples attension

4. Anchorage: matching of words to images or the juxtaposition of two images which construct a meaning.

5. Sell lines that relate to the genre, e.g. metal hammer – rock till you drop!

6. Synergy - is the promotion and sale of a product throughout the various subsidiaries .

7. Mode Of Address: tell you who the main / specific target audience is for the magazine .

8. Advertisements - they should relate to the magazines genre, e.g. banners posters

9. Masthead must show the genre of the magazine

10. Reviews - on bands and artists that match the genre of the magazine.

here are some fonts i have researched which i could use for my magazine title or mat head

Tretment

Magazine title BESREK
Summary My magazine will be a heavy metal/ punk rock magazine using serif I will make the front cover and using quark ill be making the contence page and double page spread. It will be released on the 1st of every month. It will be sold for around 3pounds

Target audience- my target audience will be between the ages of 15 to 24 year olds and mainly males.

Photography Design For the front cover iam going to get a group photo of around four people for my magazine and make them look like a band either a rock heavy metal or punk style band using medium closeups or medium shots. For my contence ill get a few single photos of people using medium close-ups and another group shot for the double page spread.

Research the layout will be based on the kerrang layout been 297 by 210 (A4) with the contents page consisting of many photos and the double page spread containing a group photo of a band with there story written. It will be similar to a kerrang magazine but will have some differences to make it look original. `
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Initial Recce considerations: the health and safety risks will be people standing on tables and on the stairs while taking the photos they run a risk of falling and receiving serious injury’s so they will need to be a first aider in the area. Also the risk of people running ar

Bauer IPC

Bauer
There music magazines are: kerrang mojo & Q

KERRANG £2.20 weekly sub genre- niche metal rock and punk main target age group would be around 15-21 and is read mostly by males

MOJO £4.30 monthly sub genre- mainstream and mostly consists of classic rock
Q £3.90 monthly subgenre mainstream. They tend t focus on the new music releases

IPC
There music magazines are: NME Guitar and bass & uncut
NME£2.20 weekly subgenre- mainstream they mainly focus on indi bands and also punk pop / rock pop punk rock music bands
GUITAR & BASS £3.95 monthly subgenre- niche this magazine is aimed mostly for guitarists
UNCUT£4.30 monthly subgenre- mainstream mainly focuses on classic rock

Bauer
bauer is the largest European based publisher around the country they cover are the United kingdom France Germany Spain and Portugal. In total they sell around 38 million magazines per week world wide.

IPC
has more success out of women with nearly 2 out of every 3 women reading and buying there products and over 40% of males buying them too. IPC is oe of th top UK magazine publishers.

Differences between niche and mainstream

Mainstream - very popular, familiar to the masses. common, usual or conventional.
large circulation and readership figures.
Examples - Kerrang!, NME, Q.

Niche - targets a small, specific portion of the population. not hugely popular.
small circulation and readership figures in relation to mainstream magazines.
Examples - Guitar & Bass.