Magazine analysis

X Magazine:
Key Brand Values: Mainstream Pop magazine, fashion and news

Owner: Freemantle Media and Syco Entertailment.

Masthead: X Magazine (Bold and stands out is one of the main focuses when you see the X logo you automatically know what it is and many fans would buy it straight away.

Strapline: Music Stars Style (sums up the what the magazine is about)

Price: £1.95

House Style: Range of colours main focuses are the X and the main cover image it is of all the judges and has them in popularity order. The colour scheme is bright fun colours such as Blues. pinks and purples. The colours show the magazine is based on a girl audience from a range of ages young teenage girls and older ages such as mums.

Advertising portfolio: Fashion, make up, pop singles, concerts and TV shows.

Frequency: weekly By making this magazine weekly it makes it hightly competitive with other magazines.





Smash Hits:
Key brand Values: Mainstream teen pop and and latter day feminine fashion

Owner: Emap 78-07 Bauer07

Masthead: smash hits- Bold and bubble style writing that yound teenage girls ages 12 really love.

Strapline: the world greatest pop mag At the time it was and was extreamly popular

Price: £1.90

House style: pop art colours, yellows, pink, blues and orange Girly colours

Advertising portfolio: pop singles, teen fashion, make up latter day

Frequency: Bi-weekly

A day in the life of my target audience

Mood Board For My Magazine

This is my mood board for Beat it shows the type of artists that will be featured in the magazine and all the aspects of it. There is a list of words that tells you exactly whats in the magazine. The mood board includes a range of colours to show Beat is a fun magazine it is also trying to show all the great things in music CDs, awards, gigs and of course the artists.

Pre-lim task: school magazine cover

This is my Pre-lim task. It is a magazine front cover for boys and girls in the sixth form it contains gossip, advice and news about the sixth form. For a first attempt i think the magazine cover came out quite good but i can improve alot. To improve the front cover i could enlarge the central dominant image and have it fill the screen i could also make it brighter as it looks quite dull and may not attract the target audience. The type face is all the same so by making it different in some areas it could improve the overall magazine cover.

Introduction to magazine

Hello,

My name is Katie I have named my magazine Beat. Beat will be based on pop music and the charts with a buisness side to help people wanting to get into the music industry. The target audience will be boys and girls mainly students but an age group of 15-25. The magazine will allow people who are passionate about music to find out the latest chart toppers and have an, incite to artists journeys and how they became who they are it will also feature the latest artist fashion trends. The frequency of the magazine will be bi-weekly. This style of magazine is a workable idea because alot of people passionate about music dont get to know how the artists became who they are with interviews from the real artists it gives potential artists a chance to become who they want to be. This is also good as many teenage girls and boys like certain looks that singers and bands have the magazine will give them that look but at a much cheeper price.