Comments from my target audience (Teenagers) about my magazine that i have produced

Becca (17 years of age);

From a teenagers viewpoint the comments that she said in which she liked about my magazine was that it was obvious for both of the magazines the context in which i was wanting to come across. For example she stated that she liked the red, and black theme which were classic "Rock" colours, which she said made my magazine stand out from other ones which she compaired mine too. Also she said that the title of my music magazine "Riot" was very eye catching and was the first thing that drew her eyes, too which made the image which was black and white stand out and the genre is clearly shown throughout this.

Sophie (16 years of age);

From a teenagers viewpoint sophie has said that some of the same points that becca has made for example; she thought that for my double page spread the fact that i have made a cd/album cover for driven overboard which made my magazine look very professional and something which you would find in a major retail outlet.Also she said that the title of my music magazine "Riot" was very eye catching and was the first thing that drew her eyes, too which made the image which was black and white stand out and the genre is clearly shown throughout this.

Overall they really liked my magazine and thought that the ideas and images, as well as the colours used and overall they said that they would buy it if it was in a shop, and that it appeals to its target audience (teenagers) very well.

Atextual analysis of rolling stones,Q,and bilboard

The popular music magazine "Rolling Stones" covers in a wide variety of music and R'n'B to rock to pop. It was named after a song sung by Muddy Waters. It started out as a political ,magazine but changed itself to appeal to younger readers. It is based in the USA as that's where it started off, its published every 2 weeks, they mainly competing against the popular men's magazine FHM. The style of rolling stones magazine is very professional and organised. The articles within the magazine are laid out in the same style that the front cover is laid out. It very informative and the layout will go with the feature inside. The way that is talks to their audience is that they use a formal manner however they also use interesting texts, and language techniques so that the reader will Carry on with their reading. The age audience that they are targeting is about the age 16+ because they use different types of music in very issue that they have, as well as some political arguments which are included. The gender they aim for is a mixture of males and females, due to the language techniques, colour scheme and images that they use. For example; the image on the front of the magazines issue determines what type of gender the issue is focused on for example; if there is a half naked woman on the front modelling a rock star image with the clothes she does have on, this can be argued that this is for a male target audience, and vise versa.
The history of the rolling stones magazine was that In the late 1960s Jann Wenner was an aspiring rock journalist and student at the University of California at Berkley. He loved music and dreamt of meeting his heroes Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Mick Jagger. In 1967 along with jazz critic Ralph Gleason, Wenner scraped together $7500 from friends and family and founded Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco.
After just two years in publication Rolling Stone magazine was widely accepted as the most authoritative publication on rock and roll music. According to “The Uncensored History” by Robert Draper, published by Doubleday in 1990,“By 1989, Rolling Stone’s parent company, Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc was worth perhaps $250 million—over thirty thousand times its value twenty-two years before.”
Rolling Stone magazine’s editorial history includes a long line of now famous and successful photographers, writers and artists. Before Rolling Stone magazine there was no such thing as rock music photography. Barron Woman served as the first Rolling Stone staff photographer; Linda Eastman (later Linda McCartney) was the first woman photographer to shoot a Rolling Stone magazine cover; Annie Leibovitz served as the second staff photographer and Robert Kingsbury was the magazine’s first full-time art director.
Rolling Stone magazine was the starting place for many famous writers including Hunter S. Thompson, Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus and many more.
Throughout its history Rolling Stone has featured top Hollywood actors, musicians and other famous personalities on its covers. According to the book “1,000 Rolling Stone Covers,” compiled by the magazine’s editors, Mick Jagger is the leader in most Rolling Stone magazine covers with 27 total.
Rolling Stone magazine lead the way on many now standard magazine industry practices including writing, photography and politics.
One of the most controversial trails the music magazine blazed was the advent of featuring nude celebrities on the magazine’s covers. The first celebrities to appear nude on Rolling Stone’s cover were John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The nude Lennon/Ono cover was the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine to sell-out. Since then Rolling Stone has featured many nude celebrities on its covers including Jennifer Aniston, Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera.
The magazine’s size and format has long been a part of the legacy of the magazine. In the early 1970s Rolling Stone changed printers and went to a tabloid format increasing the sizes of the covers from 8.5 inches by 11 inches to 10. 5 inches by 15 inches. For the next 30 years the magazine remained over sized. However, in 2008 Wenner surveyed readers and later announced plans to go to a standard magazine size with its Oct 30 issue.
While Rolling Stone magazine is profitable single copy sales have fallen from 189,000 to 132,000 in the last nine years. Wenner hopes the new magazine-rack friendly size will appeal more to advertisers and readers.
The way that rolling stones represents things is very honest as it shows images of people near enough to perfect trying to give them an angelic look to them, as they have the men and the women who are usually airbrushed. The main aim of the magazine is to show the viewers what is actually happening in the world of music and althought they do have issues about drug and acholol abuse they aim this to be a seriosu matter as they address is as how not to live your life, not to copy the footsteps of these 'rock' stars. The only rules i think that they have is to inform the readers of the truth in reference to music.




The magazine Q is published in the unighted kingdom every month. Whithin the magazine they cover a wide variety of music, and there sub title used to be " The modern guide to music and more", they cover music, film,tv and tickets to gigs. They usually give away free gifts with issues to promote this magazine. It cost £3.90 to buy and it came out in 1986. The style of Q is very sophisticated and glamorous. The way that the cover is laid out out is very well structured, and the contents page is linked in with the magazine, and if similar to the Q front cover. The way that thr articles talk to the audience is in a formal way however it uses lots of interesting words, and images to draw the attention of the viwer. The target audience for this magazine is older teens, and younge adults, amd the gendre for this magazine is females, as if it was for males, males would be interested in finding out about all different types of music, however this one only focusses on some types of music. The way they draw the audience in is buy using images of well known scelebrities, and dark clothing to show that theyt are serious about their music. The aims of this magazine is to inform people about music, and give them an honest viewpoint about this, and they give the readers an insight into the celebrities lies. As appose to the rolling stones they do not have reference to sex, drugs, and alcohol, however if there was something along the lines of this nature in the interview, then they qould quote it.


The magazine Billboard has been running since 1984 is an unbiast popular music magazine set in this new magazine. It is mostly intended for music professionals such as record labels executives and DJ's. The styles of billboard magazine is a mix of popular chart music. The cover is laid out like a CD but minus all the text which is arround the picture. The article is laid out in a very simple way with the image which is on the right hand corner and the text which is in collumns. The way that they talk to their audience in an informative way. The target age group for this magazine is younge viewers as they have an image of stars such as miley cyrus on the front, and as she is a disney star this is targeted at a younger range of consumers. When stars like miley are dressed provocitavly then this can be seen as the magazine trying to appeal to a wider range of consumers, and older teenagers to younge adults. The main interestes of this magazine is who are the next big artists and imformation about these celebrities. Thne way in which they show people on the front cover is how they want to be portrayed, which is about their music, and to gibvbve you an idea about what types of genre they are into (musically). The magazine is shown in a possitive light as it is to give you an idea anbout what different types of music are out in the industry, and tickets to gigs, as well as the top news you would want to know about your favourtite celebrity. The aime sof this magazine are to inform to record lables of who the fresh new artist are and whether they are going to be the next big thing. They inform them of the story of how they got to the place that they are today, and how their fame has affected them for example; Justin beiber, and Jessie J being foundered on youtube, and recieving recording contracts from this. This magazine also does not include any referance to drinking or drug abuse as they are soley about the music in the charts, and look at things from a music industries perspective, rather than from fame hungry people wanting to know how to get famous. They are focussed on music.

First draft of my music magazine contents page

This is the first draft of my music magazine contents page, in which i looked at and then decided to change to make it allot more eye catching and to fit in with the rock genre, to come up with my final design of my music magazine's contents page.

7. Looking back at your pliminary task (The school magzine task) What do you think you have learnt in the progression from it to full project

Since creating my school magazine my knowolage of using work such as photoshop, and paint has increased considerably considering i had never used photoshop before. For example; i now know how to make different eleements of my magazine stand out and how to have an image that is as bit as i want it to be without it being out of focus. In addition to this i also learnt how to have an image and rub out all of the things that are not wanted and how to colour these in using different tools and adding different layers. An example of this can be my guitar pick which i have used on my contents page and my double page spread to be used as the page number, i have created this on paint and rubbed out all of the un-necissary white marks on this as well. A nother example is the 'RIOT' masthead i have also done this on paint, which i never thought i would know how to use, however now i am very confident when it comes to using these. I have also learnt how to download newer and more interesting fonts, which will increase the visual aspect to my magazine.

Overall my understanding of these different types of software has improved greatly throuhout this project as before i took media, i would ahve never needed to use softwear such as photoshop and paint, so therefore it has definatly given me a greater understanding of how these work, and therefore i will be able to use these in the future if ever i needed to. These software definatly helped me to produce my professional looking magazine.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this project?

I used a Toshiba laptop to create my magazine on. I also used the computers that where in the library at my school, however the majority of my work was done using my laptop at home. a
I used a kingston memory stick to save all of my work and transfer my work onto the school computers.

I have also used photoshop to manipulate some of my images to make them a different colour to what they appeared to be at the begining, for example on my double page spread the images that are used at the bottom of the page have been manipulated to make thme stand out more. Also the image on the front cover of my music magazin has also been manipulated to make the guitar and bakground darker to make the guitarist stand out more.



I used a lumix psnsomic digital camera to take all of my photos on.

I also used paint to do the title of my music magazine 'RIOT' on


I also learnt how to use 'Adobe Photoshop CS3 to edit some of the images that i have used in my music magazine.



I also needed to use 'blogger' in order to create my blog, and post all of my research and planning activities on to this to show my progression throughout the year- as well as my final products that i have made and my evaluations.

5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

Shown above is three bar charts in which i asked 3 dufferent teenagers a serious of questions about my magazine and asked them to score this out of five. By looking at my results most of the questions i asked i have scored 4/5 for which is the highest region of scores. Therefore this proesnts to me that i am addressing my audience well considering that the people that i asked were teenagers around about the age in whcih i am aiming my product to be suitable for when finished.
I also feel that due to the images that i have used, adresses my audience well as for my music magazine there is a tennager on the front and vice versa for my school magazine however, I feel that the images at the bottom of the page on my school magazine which i have used, which are from the tallent show (which was a moulin rouge theme) produced and arranged by the sixth formers, and images from the grease school production, are more interesting for the students to want to read not just for the parents. As typically a school magazine is where the parents of the child who is attending the school would like to buy this as it tells them what is happening in the school and upcoming events etc, and that the child does not normally want to read this. However i feel that what i have included in this magazine, will be therefore more enticing for the students in the school. I also had "Win leeds tickets " on the front of this magazine so therefore this will also adress my audience alot more due to the fact that teenagers are very interested in festivals and the fact that there may be a change for them to win a ticket inside will be inticing for them to want to buy my magazine. I feel that i have done a lot of research whilst creating my magazine front covers etc, so therefore i have researched into which types of things should be included in magazine for different genres, so therefore i knew what to use for a school magazine, and then knew how to change this to fit my music magazine.
Also lots of people have commented on my work (teenagers), and some of the comments which they have made is that they would definatly buy this magazine and that they feel it is very professional looking, and looks like something that you would find in stores. They feel that it fits its purpose and fits the genre of each magazine, which has been carefully thought out with all of the codes and conventions to where the imaging, and writing would go.
I addressed my target audience by constantly asking them what their oppinions were about my work, and the comments they thought in which i could change my work to make it fit my target audience more and how it would be more eye catching etc. I was very open to constructive critism so therefore i feel that by being like this it has helped me with the progression with my magazine, and to have it turned out the way it is now.

4. who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for my magazine will be ages 15-19 male and female, however it has a slight biast towards the male fan base in the way that this magazine has been writted.

Typically he will be found constantly at gigs and listening to less established acts, such as; paramore, you me at six, all time low etc. His free time will be spent at concerts as shown above in the picture the picture below is at one of the concerts that the target audience for my music magazine have been to. Also the top image is my target audience with the tee shirts of less known acts ready and up for a gig to spend their free time at. They will be proper music lovers, and rather than worrying about how they look or where they buy their clothes from. They wont be worried about wasting their money on this they will spend it on the gigs, and festivals, this magazine would be perfect for these people.