Q5

Q5

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  HOW DID YOUATTRACT YOUR AUDIENCE? Question 5
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  FASHION In terms offashion, I wanted my magazine to coordinate and wanted the fashion/costume styling of my cover story models to match the scheme and colours of the magazine in genera. I focused a lot on costume and even created a project of on the costume choices I made. This presentation made on Prezi allowed me to present to my peers how I wanted my models to appear and how I think that fashion is important and influential in the music industry.
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  IMAGE I wanted themain image to be the only image on the front cover. I find when the front cover has lots of images the cover looks overcrowded and takes attention from the main cover story. I researched many different styles of magazine structure including non musical magazines as well and found that one large image and then some text looks more professional and much more presentable when it is set out in that manner. In my opinion this magazine appears overcrowded and the attention is taken away from the main artist who should be the key selling point of the magazine. These covers with only one main image look cleaner and are not overcomplicated. This is something I prefer as a magazine reader.
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  PRICE I made themagazine affordable, as a student I feel that magazine expense is discouraging and many more students would take interest in reading magazines if the cost was not so high. As £2.99 for a monthly magazine I think that REFUNE would market successfully right now in the media industry because the price is very low for the features promised, whereas in comparison to NME at £2.20 weekly costing £8.80 per month. Researching demographics allowed me to understand that hardly any magazines target an audience of students, unemployed or teenagers specifically and I feel that if REFUNE was to ever market it would benefit most for this area of demographics.
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  MUSIC GENRE My chosenmedia genre is indie pop, this would attract audiences that are interested in this music genre. In the first stages of the coursework we created a mind map of all the existing music genres. I then looked closely at the magazine market and gained an understanding of what genres of music are already being targeted in the magazine industry. The common themes of Pop or Rock occurred many times, so I chose to focus on the genre of Indie Pop. I then researched this genre and used questionnaires and a focus group to get a real understanding of what would be in an indie pop magazine. I chose in incorporate lots of indie pop artists and images of indie artists, also made sure all of the colour schemes, dialect or colloquialisms and names that are mentioned actually relate to the genre I chose to portray in my magazine.
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  My colour schemewas chosen from asking audiences which they would prefer, I used existing magazine colour schemes for inspiration and also made sure that the colours I chose would not clash or make the magazine appear not to be indie pop. My chosen colour schemes.