The first genre you should be analysing is music magazines - outline the conventions and then look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...
- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?
- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?
- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)
- why do they work?
In research you need to examine your audience - who is your target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.
questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!
Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?
Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....
