Magazine Ideas

George Loftus

Research into similar Music Magazine

• Reader Profile of NME:-

Research into Similar Music Magazine

• After looking at the NME reader profile, I have found that:-

• I can see that there is a majority of a male audience reading this magazine with 69% making the female audience less than half of the male.

•Over Half the audience that read this magazine are in Full time Work. With part time work only at 7%.

•The ABC1 category of this magazine is at 65%. This means that it is a popular magazine with more higher status people regarding to their line of profession.

Possible Names for my Magazine

Possible Name IdeasDiverse

Majesty

ShuffleRhythm

BEATS

Cult

Culture Club

Tribe

UnPlugged

Possible Genres for my Music Magazine

Possible Genre Ideas

Indie

Rock

Pop and ChartFolk

RnB

Hip-Hop

Classic

Dubstep

Rap

Possible Articles for my Magazine

Possible Article Ideas

Band articles

Song articles

Bands splitting up

Bands reforming

New albums released

Reviewing bands

concerts

Tour datesSpecial Edition

Task 6: The Genre I will Feature

I shall be doing an Indie/Rock magazine:-

• This is because I am very familiar with this genre as this is the type of music I listen too so I am familiar with the artists, songs, what would appear in this genre’s magazine.

• I read magazines such as Q and NME so I understand what needs to be included in the magazine, such as the type of language that is used and what main article ideas that are involved in this genre.

Task 6: Artists connected to this genre.

Indie/Rock Artists:-

•Arctic Monkeys

•Kasabian

•The Smiths

•The Kooks

•Metronomy

•Two Door Cinema Club

•Bombay Bicycle Club

•Razorlight

•Beady Eye

•Noel Gallagher’s high flying Birds

•Bloc Party

•The Wombats

• Blur

• Florence and the Machines

•The Meccabees

•The Vaccines

• Foster The People

•Outfit

Task 6: Brief History of the Genre Indie/Rock

• Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, Dream Popcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others. Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground and less testosterone driven perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, a number of indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

• (Source www.wikipedia.com)

Task 6: Type of Imagery Associated with Indie/Rock

Task 7: Similar Magazine other than IPC publishing

Q Magazine• Publisher is Bauer Media.• I don’t think that this publisher will be

good for my magazine as there already is a magazine very similar to my own called Q.

• The target audience of this magazine is people who like Indie/Rock music but also don’ mind it straying into Pop music now and again. The target age of this magazine would be around 30 because it is an expensive magazine at £3.99 and the language used aimed at a higher status person looking into the ABC1 category.

• Bauer Media also publishes Mojo, Kerrang! and Pop magazine.