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Top 40 Download Chart

1. Trouble Maker - Olly Murs
2. Little Thins - One Direction
3. Beneath your beautiful - Labyrinth
4. Something New - Girls Aloud
5. Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys
6. Gangnam Style - PSY
7. Candy - Robby Williams
8. The Power of Love - Gabrielle Aplin
9. Ho Hey - Lumineers
10. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
11. DNA - Little Mix
12. Diamonds - Rihanna
13. A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
14. Dont You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia
15. Not Giving In - Rudimental
16. Can You Hear Me - Wiley
17. Skyfall - Adele
18. Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris
19. One More Night - Maroon 5
20. Latch - Disclosure
21. Hall Of Fame - Script ALTERNATIVE ROCK
22. Shine Ya Light - Rita Ora
23. Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran
24. Beauty and Beat - Justin Beiber
25. We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
26. Tidal Wave - Sub-Focus
27. Back In Black - AC/DC HARD ROCK
28. Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
29. Try - Pink POP ROCK
30. I Found You - Wanted
31. Love Is Easy - McFly POP ROCK
32. I Cry - Flo Rida
33. Va Va Voom - Nick Minaj
34.  Live While We're Young - One Direction
35. Wings - Little Mix
36. Right Now - Rihanna
37. Wonder - Naughty Boy
38. Do You Think Of Me - Misha B
39. Gold Dust - DJ Fresh
40. Highway To Hell - AC/DC HARD ROCK

This is the top 40 download chart at the moment. As you can see there arent many of them that are in my chosen genre of indie/rock. The nearest to it would probably be 'Hall Of Fame' by the Script. This is good in the sense that i can do my magazine to make indie rock more popular and well known. A lot of the artists on this list are pop and R&B which is very popular at the moment on the charts so if i can make a magazine based on indie rock it will hopefully make it more popular and encourage people to listen to it.

Uses and Gratifications Theory

Demographics

Price

Focus group

We had to do a focus group task where we ask each other questions regarding music magazines. The answers that were gave will help me to develop the price and my overall product, such as whether i am going to include a free gift.
One of the questions that was asked was 'how much would you expect to pay for a music magazine?' The feedback given was she would pay anywhere up to £2,50 for a weekly magazine and up to £4.00 for a monthly one. This helped me think of the price for my magazine.
Another question asked was 'how often would you want it to be published'? The feedback was if it was to get quick updates on artists etc then it should be weekly.
We also asked whether free gifts would persuade you to buy the magzine and the answers was that it would and these included free posters.

Focus group planning

These are the questions that we asked each other in our focus group in order to get some ideas on what to include in our magazine:

• Do you buy magazines, if so how often?
• What makes a music magazine appealing?
• How much would you be willing to pay for one?
• How much would you want it to be published?
• What would encourage you to buy a magazine?
• Do competitions in magazines make you want to buy it more?
• What free things do you want to be included?
• What type of music do you like?

Practice photoshoot

These are some of the images that were took on the practice photo-shoot. Although they weren't serious photos they gave me inspiration for when i do my actual photos. I liked the one shot photos as they seem quirky and a little indie which fits in with my music genre of alternative rock/indie. I also like the two shot photos as they seem edgy and different. However the second one and the last one you can see the green background on the photo so this would be something that i would have to be careful about when doing the real photo shoot. Shadows can can also be seen so i would have to be careful about that and have the right lighting.

Initial ideas spider diagram

Moodboard

This is my moodboard for my music magazine task. I included examples of mastheads from existing magazines to get inspiration from. All of them are bold and bright as well as being short and memorable. This is something that i wish to have for my masthead.I included examples of a double page spread, contents page and many front covers that have given me inspiration. I also included some band pictures which i want my magazine to include such as 'Coldplay' and 'The Kooks'.

Conventions and analysis music magazine - front cover

Conventions and analysis-music magazine front cover

Genre

I have chosen to have my music magazines main genre as Alternative/Indie. These are bands such as 'The Kooks' and 'Linkin Park'. I have chosen this genre of music because this is one of the main genres that i listen to and love. Existing magazines that are this type of genre are ones such as 'NME' and 'Q' magazine.

The Kooks -

Florence and the machine -

Linkin Park -

Coldplay -

The Brief

The music magazine task is to produce a front cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine. The images and text must be produced by you and there must be a minimum of four images.