Music Mag questionnaire

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Taget Audience

My target audience for my music magazine is anyone who is interested in Indie Music.  Bands/Artists that feature in this type of Genre may be: Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Jake Bugg etc...  There are many more.  Anyone is enjoys this type of music and are a fan of these types of bands and artists.  This would be my target audience. 

The age of my target audience will be a wide spread because in my chosen Genre there are a lot of different bands.  That are all different ages.  For E.G. The clash and Oasis feature in my chosen Genre.  These bands are old.  This would attract the older age to read my magazine.  However I also have new exciting bands and artists that feature in my magazine.  This may attract teenagers and young adults that may want to know about new bands.

To sum up my target audience, I believe that my target audience is anyone who enjoys Indie Rock music.  Also anyone age group that want to know about old bands and the new exciting bands/artists.

InDesign

Prelim Task

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study with signs and symbols in a photo. It is also the colours been used, this links in with magazines a lot, especially music magazines. Front covers of music magazines have a lot of semiotics within them because the front cover tells a lot of stories. The picture is trying to get you to read on in the magazine and needs to be eye catching. The use of semiotics help this, so in order for a music magazine to be successful it needs to have good semiotics within it. The most common semiotic signs are:

How they or something is communicating to the reader?

What does it symbolize?

What does it indicate?

How they make us feel?

Who are they designed for?

and...

Why are they designed?

For E.G. we know that if a man picked up a magazine and the basic colour was blue.  We would automatically think it would be a mans magazine.  We think this because we think blue is a boys colour while pink is a girls colour.  This is the idea of semiotics.

The male gaze is the concept of: How men look at women, how women look at themselves and how women look at other women. Laura Mulvey came up with the term 'Male Gaze' in 1975. She believed that film audiences view women in a sexual way. This links in with magazines because it shows how men look at women on the front covers. E.g. Miley Cyrus.  

 

First Photo-shoot

This is my first photo-shoot for my music magazine.  These pictures could be for my front cover.  The characters on the pictures are: James Doyle and Joe Turnbull.