AS Media Studies - (Nathan, Kaher, Kirsty, Maria, Basker

Today in my group we discussed what kind of target audience we will be targeting.  Are magazine is going to be targeted at both genders (boys/girls). its headed at everyone its not going to be put into a particular ethnic category therefore its very diverse. Since this is going to be a music magazine its going to be about the music industry. its talking about the urban music scene, readable for ages 14-25. its mostly for the youths off todays generation

AS Music Magazine

In media, we are making the front cover of a music magazine. For our magazine we are focusing on a mixture of urban, slowjamz, hip-hop and RnB, this would be artists such as three 6 mafia, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Fabolous, Lil Wayne and Ne-Yo. 

The name we have chosen to call our magazine is "Gage". We have chosen this name because it is a shortened version of the word engage, which is what the magazine is trying to do with its readers.

We each have to design our own cover, and for a unique style we are doing one edition from Summer, one from Winter, one from Autumn, one from Spring and a special edition one - the one i am doing, and the it will be a Valentines day edition. 

The magazine is intended for Students and Young adults from the ages 14-21, with a trendy lifestyle, the kind of people who enjoy listening to music, and are keen to find out the next big hit, in the genre of music we are basing our magazine on. because it is for students who have not yet settled into a proper full time job, we are pricing the magazine at £2.10, which is both affordable and reasonable.

                            Chris Brown.

AS Music Magazine

For our media magazine, we have decided to produce a music magazine with a combination or urban, slowjamz, hip hop and RnB. Due to the fact that the magazine genre is music, we have come to a conclusion that the title is 'GAGE'. This is because 'GAGE' comes from the word engage- which we intend for the readers to be engaged to the magazine and music. Since we had to produce a magazine cover each, we chose to do four different representatives of each season, summer, spring, autumn winter and a special addition (5th member). The magazine is priced at £2.10 which we think is a reasonable price for a monthly magazine, aimed at young adults aged 14-21 with a trendy lifestyle. We intend for the magazine to be 'hip' which many people can relate to.

An example of a hip hop magazine featuring rap star T.I

As Media Studies- (Kaher, Baska, Maria, Kirsty, Nathan)

In today's lesson we all discussed what our magazine is going to consist of. The music magazine has different types of criteria. For example; Age groups, Gender etc. We also learnt that composing the masthead, cover line etc, is vital in engaging the audience to read the magazine. 

After sorting ourselves into groups, we all discussed what our magazine was going to consist of. So this included the name, which is called 'GAGE', and we talked about the selling price.  During the lesson we went out and took pictures for the cover, and started working on the cover using photoshop.

as music magazine

   Basically planning out what our group will be doing and how, by looking at other music magazine we got a basic idea of how our own magazine cover will look like. We decided that our magazine genre will be slow jamz/ urban music for example RnB. Later we discussed other areas of the cover like where the barcode will be placed and what the title will be and how large the masthead will be. All the factors of the cover has been discussed but not confirmed. It was then decided that we'll shoot the  pictures for the main image on another date. the title of the magazine at the moment was soppose to be ''gage'' however the teacher said it ment something controversal  so we had to change it and yet havn't decided the title.

   the magazine will be split up into seasons but will always feature a main artist or a attractive woman. reasons for this is because gilrs look and compare to other girls and guys like looking at girls so this way it'll hook in both genders.