My Final Choice

I have decided to do a mix of some of my initial ideas as my final decision for my music magazine. I am going to do a up today music news and technology magazine. I have decided to do this because it is unique and has rarely been done before. The magazine is going to include information about new music technology e.g. headphones and information about music away from technology e.g. the charts of the week.

I chose to do a music technology and news magazine due to some of the results from my audience research questionnaire. The results that affected my decision are that i realised how much people used technology from my question asking what platform people will most likely view the magazine on. This showed me how much technology is involved in our lives and therefore how much room there is in the market for a music technology magazine. Another thing that affected my decision was the fact that there was no genre that anybody wanted to be included in particular. This made me not want to focus completely on one genre e.g. rock as it would close off a large proportion of the target audience. The final decision i made due to my target audience questionnaire was that Billboard magazine was the far and away most popular magazine. This affected my decision as Billboard focuses on a variety of genres but include things such as new technology and exclusive interviews which is another thing i may focus on. I also decided not to focus fully on technology due to the fact that i believe that the magazine would get very repetitive and some weeks would struggle to get interesting information.

The target audience i have chosen is going to be mainly focused at males aged from 15- 25 years old. However the magazine can also be easily readable for females. I decided to choose this target audience due to the fact that stereo-typically males are a lot more into technology. As well as that i chose that age range due to the fact that people between 15- 25 year olds are a lot more interested in technological developments and chart news. The magazine is also multi gender in some scenarios as men and women enjoy keeping up with chart information and getting chances to read exclusive interviews.

The type of artists that may be included in the music magazine is people like Dr Dre. He may be included due to his involvement with beats headphones and his music with the NWA. He would be a perfect person to be interviewed as he would fit the target audience and both parts of the magazine technology and music.
Another artist i am thinking of including in the magazine is the person top of the charts at the end of each week. I think that this would be a great idea as the artists top of the charts are usually extremely popular so therefore the audience would want to read about them.

Visual Elements
Elements that i may include in my magazine are bright colours which were hugely requested during my questionnaire. This will make my magazine stand out compared to others. I also think that on my front cover i am going to include a black and white image to create a more retro look to go against my technology and new theme. A idea i may include on my front cover is a man/ women listening to music with headphones on. I think this would be good as it would immediately attract in the target audience.