Evaluation - Part 4 - audience

Originally my magazine was aimed at those who are interested in pop music and new upcoming artists. The magazine is aimed mostly at girls as it is easier for me to relate to young girls who enjoy this genre of music as this is the genre I enjoy also. The age range of my music magazine ranges from 13 to 17 as I believe this is that age range in which young people start to get interested in music. It is also the age I believe that people decide what they’re going to be like as a person such as what crowd they are going to be in and what clothes they are going to wear and what their future holds for them. This is relevant to the magazine I wished to create because it was meant to be all about fresh new pop music that have different styles and create their own crowd instead of following the others. However, I now think after creating my magazine that it appeals to the crowd that follow the rest of the crowd. This is because it is very cheesy pop, and cheesy pop tends to have the latest trends that everyone else has and isn’t the trend setter itself. My magazine is all smiles and ‘coming from nothing to something’ this is typically what teenage girls believe can happen, whereas the people who don’t follow the crowd stereotypically tend to be seen as the outsiders, and those who are ‘different’ in teenage social groups, and wouldn’t necessarily be interested in pop music.

Evaluation - Part 3 - institution

I originally chose IPC media as the institution for my magazine, Refresh. IPC media currently only produce one music magazine within their vast selection of magazines they produce. The only magazine they produce is NME this magazine is a completely different style to the magazine I wish to create. The genre of my magazine is pop, whereas NME is more indie rock and is aimed at people in their twenties whereas Refresh is aimed at teens. IPC Media produces over 60 iconic media brands, with print alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults. They currently don't produce any magazines for children or teens so my magazine will be completely different to anything they have produced, and will add to their large selected range of magazines. They currently produce magazines for women, such as Look, Now, Chat and Women; they also produce magazines for men, such as Rugby World, Nuts, Mousebreaker and World Soccer. By producing my magazine it would be a start of a new teen sector which they currently do not have, by doing this they will have a brand new audience to add to their vast collection of current readers. Everything about IPC is aimed at adults for example there website is very formal and has more writing then pictures and doesn’t use bright colours that would attract teens, but by producing my magazine it may give them the chance to be more creative with their website, and in creating more magazines aimed at teens and young children’s. Because IPC only produce one other music magazine that is the complete opposite to Refresh there would be no competition between profits or audiences as they are both completely different.

http://www.ipcmedia.com/

Evaluation - Part 2 - representation

I aim to represent the young and upcoming female pop artists in the music industry. I think my magazine represents the female pop industry more than the male industry as I haven’t really included anything to represent the males. I have mentioned male pop groups within my magazine but these are bands that are popular with females and young teenage girls. My magazine represents girly girls and the ‘clean faced’ pop starts that are popular with mid-teens. I think I have done this by using a girl who is the same age as my target audience, and has the 'girl next door' clean faced look. The magazine aims to represent the girls who follow the latest trends, have sleepovers, and hangout with their ‘besties’. Pop as a genre is very vast, there are different types of pop music from Jessie J type pop which has an edge of R’N’B and rap mixed in, to Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus who produce soft fluffy pop. This is the type of pop that my magazine represents. I have tried to emphasis the 'cheesy pop' genre within the words used in my double page spread by using words the over exaggerate everything, such as extraordinary. I have also tried to make my magazine relateable to to teenagers who come from the urban scene and think that they can't achieve something. I have done this by taking my picture in an urban setting, against a graffiti covered wall, this is something that most teenagers have seen in an urban environment so it is easy for them to relate to. I have used the same background on my double page spread also. I have also tried to represent teenage girls who live in more rural areas by including a picture on the contens that is taken in a snow covered field, this is less relatable to the city girls then the country girls. I have also tried to include both on the front cover in the small teaser underneath the main feature which says "Small town girl goes global..." this could almost be seen as bring the two different type of teenager girls together.

  Refresh doesn’t represent the adult population as much as teens this is because of the content and they words used for example I have used the word ‘teens’ when talking about my cover star, and have included things that interest me and what I would like to find out as a teen, such as what it’s like to be a pop star, and how celebrities deal with the negative press. The fact that everything in the magazine is aimed a teens means that the magazine doesn’t represent a large group of people these include OAP’S, mothers, middle aged people, young children and even teen age boys.

Evaluation - Part 1 - Conventions

Questionnaire - Audience feedback

1. Can you tell me which genre this magazine is?

     Classic
     Indie
     Rock
     Jazz
     Pop
     R 'N' B
     Dance

2. What would you be willing to pay for it?

    £2.00
    £2.50
    £3.00
    £3.50
    £4+

3. How often would you buy this magazine?
   
    Never
    Weekly
    Every fortnight
    Monthly
    Every 2 months
    Subscription

4. What would make you buy it?





5. Which feature do you believe is the main star? (front cover)



6. What could be improved?

Double Page Spread Final Draft

Contents Page Final Draft