Final products

First drafts without images

Rough hand-drawn drafts

These rough drafts are being used to give an idea of the layout of the pages. (Loacation/size of images, headlines, etc.)

Spider diagrams

Price/How often published

As my target audience will mostly be in the C2 and D demographics and will not have that much money to spend on things such as magazines, the price for the magazine must be quite low. However, it is a relatively niche genre so it will not have much competition in terms of price. Due to it being a low price, it will not have much content in an issue as a more expensive magazine, and so should be published more often.

The magazine will be published weekly and cost £1.99 per issue.

Briefly outline your target audience

As my magazine will have an emphasis on classic rock, it will mostly contain musicians who were around in the 60's-80's. This is quite a niche audience, and most of the audience for my magazine will be people who were around when some of these bands first formed, growing up listening to them. Because of this, the main demographic for my magazine will be the 35-55 demographic.
However, not all of the audience for the magazine will be this age. The audience will also include younger readers who started listening to the genre later than those in the 35-55 demographic, including some who have only become interested in the genre recently. Some of my audience will be in the 24-35 demographic.

The genre the magazine will focus on is not generally a "high" kind of music like classical, which is mostly listened to people in higher classes and demographics. The genre is open to people of all demogrpahics, but is mostly listened to by working-class to middle-class people, mostly male adults.

For these reasons, I think the main SEG demographics for the magazine will be the C2 and D demographics.

Market research - Magazine 3 - Double-page spread

Language - Lots of dark colours used, mostly red and black, with all pictures in greyscale, to reflect MCR's emo style of music. This is further conveyed by the main image, a mid-shot of the singer looking away from the camera and the reader, as well as a headshot of one of the band members shouting in the corner of the page. The headline stands out against the dark colours of the rest of the page, especially the words "The best MCR", displayed in large white text to stand out agaisnt the colour black and get the attention of the reader.

Institution - Bauer Media

Ideology - The spread conveys a sense of darkness and sadness through the use of black and greyscale, as well as the content of the images, especially the main image. It also gives the message that MCR are getting better, as stated in the large, instantly noticeable headline.

Audience - The audience for this article are mainly fans of MCR, mostly early teenagers, who will see the large stand-out "MCR" and the main image of the singer and want to read the article.

Representation - The spread represents MCR as being somewhat of an emo band, which would be seen as positively by the band's fans who would be the audience for this article. This is also an accurate representation of the band's style and music.