Researching Magazines

• Use the internet and a visit to your local supermarket to find out what music magazines are available in the UK (Rolling Stone and Billboard are both American and not entirely appropriate).

• Remember to focus on the big magazines, rather than obscure ones that are difficult to find

• Record who publishes the main magazines, what their circulation and readership are, and any mission statement they might have (use the Media Packs on Blackboard to find out this

information)

Getting Started

• When you have completed your initial market research choose three magazines that are similar to the one you want to create

• Analyse their front covers, contents pages and double page spreads

• There are examples on Blackboard, but these might be a bit old, so try finding more recent examples

Textual Analysis

• Your analysis should focus on:– Mise-en-scene: characters, costumes, props,

location and lighting)– Camerawork: type of shot and angle– Colour scheme: is there a house style? How

many colours are used?– Language: what mode of address and register

are used?– Fonts: serif, sans serif? Size and colour

Textual Analysis

• Use the media packs to identify who the audience for your magazine is

• How do the elements on the previous slide appeal to the audience?

Textual Analysis & the Audience

• All research must be posted on your blog• PowerPoints and Word documents will not

upload, so you will need to put PPs through Slideshare to create presentations and write directly onto your posts

• Include images of your pages and crop up details: the more images the better.

Presenting your Research