Conventions, Producer and Target Audience

Conventions, Producer and Target Audience

 

 

The main conventions in my magazine will revolve around a pop-punk/punk theme. The text on my magazine pages will be bold but the colour themes will be quite plain, after researching magazines similar to my own I have found that they usually feature black and white colours of background and main text e.g. masthead and coverlines but with one other bold colour. Magazines like Q and Kerrang usually use black, white and red whereas I plan on using black, white and blue as it's a brighter colour and will make my magazine stand out against there's. The colour theme for my magazine will be blue, black and white throughout to maintain consistency and show that the colours link to the main image that will be the main feature in that particular issue. I plan on showing that the magazine will have a different colour linking to the main image on every issue, possibly in a subscription area. I also plan on using things like paint splatters or small images/symbols to tie in to my theme and appeal to my target audience, it could also act as a filler for areas with large parts of text as although my target audience is around 16-25 too much text can still be off putting for some readers and the images could help break the text apart so it doesn't seem like too much. I will not put too much text on the front cover like coverlines etc. as my magazine is a specialist type of magazine (not one you'd expect to find in a supermarket, more likely to be in a music store) and the magazines I've researched from that type of magazine have been relatively bare on the cover as buyers of these magazines do not need coverlines to draw them to the magazine, they'll be more drawn to the fact that there's few magazines that specialise in it.

 

For the producer I'd probably choose Bauer to produce my magazine as they have produced magazines similar to the theme I have chosen but mine is different enough to not be direct competition. A lot of the magazines they produce are very generally sold such as Kerrang! and Q and not many specialised but it would make my magazine stand out and not be competition to the other magazines they produce but be something different in general. The magazines Bauer produce are generally very successful as they all target different types of people with specific interests be it music or film, so I think Bauer would be a strong choice for a producer given my type of magazine.

 

My target audience is people aged 16-25 but not specifically. The theme of magazine will appeal to people of different ages as it specialises in punk which spans many ages of people but the way I've incorporated it into the magazine along with pop-punk will probably appeal more to a younger audience, also more young people read magazines than older people, hence the younger target audience as I feel it'd be more successful if addressed to a younger audience.