My questionnaire for target audience

Here is my questionnaire that I have designed for my target audience. I will hand quite a few copies out to people who are suited to my target audience. After I have a lot of filled out questionnaires, I will analyse the results and see what my target audience are most interested in seeing on my own magazine.

Pop Magazine Analysis

Here is my analysis into a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a pop music magazine. I now understand the style of these magazines more, the sorts of colours and fonts used, some of the main artists and how it attracts attention.

R&B Magazine Analysis

Here is my analysis of a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a R&B music magazine. After analysing this type of genre, I now have a feel for what most of the magazines look like and I also know some iconic artists from this genre.

Target Audience

As I mentioned in my final decision for the genre of my magazine, I will be targeting 16-30 year olds for my own rap magazine. I am targeting this age range because I feel rap music will appeal to them the most. I will be designing a questionnaire for my target audience to ask them how they feel about this genre and evaluate it after. I think that rap/hip hop music will most likely appeal to men more than women because there aren't many female rappers out there. Therefore my magazine will also be aimed at men but there is no reason why females cant be interested in the genre too. I think that rap music appeals to 16-30 year olds most because of the explicit language that is used in music and the personalities that some iconic rappers have. It is clear that rap music is not for a younger audience. And I think that older people could get offended by the music rappers produce or just don't like it in general, which is why I've chosen a specific age range in which I feel rap will appeal to the most.

Target audience profile:
A typical person in my target audience would be a male aged 18, he would like the big rappers like Eminem, Drake etc. He would enjoy activities like gaming and socialising with friends. He would wear fashionable clothes and tend to stay up to date with everything. He would also be a social media user and follow all his favourite rapper idols on Instagram, twitter etc.

Rap magazine analysis

Here is my analysis of a front cover, contents page and double page spread of a rap/hip hop music magazine. Now I have made my decision to focus my own magazine on this genre, I now have a better understanding of the style of these magazines after my analysis.

Music Magazine Genre Decision

Here is my final decision on the genre my music magazine is going to focus on. I have done research into 3 genres and decided that rap/hip hop is the one best for me as I am passionate about it, and hopefully this reflects in my final product. I am happy with my decision and im looking forward to making my own magazine on this genre.

Research into R&B magazines

Here are some examples of a front cover, contents page and double page spread for an R&B magazine. The genre tends to focus on big names in the industry to try and attract as most attention as possible to the target audience.

Research into Pop magazines

Here is my research into pop music magazines. Here is a front cover, contents page and double page spread. I think that the genre is aimed at younger audiences and the colours used are very bright. Each magazine tends to focus on one popstar which kids and teenagers may like.

Research into Rap magazines

 
This is the research into rap/hip hop magazine and here are examples of a front cover, contents and double page spread. I really like the genre and the style of the magazines and have an instinct that I will go for this genre for my own magazine.

Music Magazine Task

I have just received my music magazine task and I understand that I have to create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine focusing on a specific genre. I will research 3 different genres like rap, pop and R&B. I will then need to decide what genre I am doing and then move forward from there