Initial Research into forms and conventions

Before we go into deciding on what magazine we do. We had to find a bit of research into different genres and audiences of other magazine, to give us an idea of whats in the market and how to produce our own magazine.

Title: Wonkavision Magazine.

The Audience: Teenage audience, just getting into adulthood


Main Contents: Many interviews with the band

Brand Identity: A independant magazine for independant music. Down to earth kind of bands.






Title: Q Magazine


The Audience: Teenage an a adult audience

Main Contents: Reviews of albums, Q awards, Exclusive interviews with many bands like U2 and Oasis, Competitions to win tickets for access all areas in gigs. Also bands views on other eachother, e.g. what Arctic Monkeys frontman, Alex Turner thinks of band Take That.

Brand Identitys: Big major label Magazine,






Title: Classic FM

The Audience: Mostly the older adult generation. Maybe a tiny amount of youth people.

Main Contents: Live Music Guides, Free CDs, Interviews on debut albums and talks about the passion of music.

Brand Identitys: Very Upmarket, Sophisticated Magazine. For the older adult generation who know a little bit more about how the music industry works, take classical music seriously.

What I need to do next is to make my final decision on what genre im doing for my magazine. To help me do this, I will be looking at more magazines that are in the market today in more detail. So ive got an idea on what I want to do and to see what the public like to have when buying a magazine.