Overview of my Magazine.

- Indie music magazine: Venew
- Target audience: both genders, ages 16-20 interested in the music business, enjoy listening to indie music, preferably play instruments such as the guitar, drums or bass and attend gigs and/or festivals.
- Content involves posters, information on gigs and festivals coming up, interviews with the cover artist, news in the indie music industry, competitions, new albums and singles.
- Advertisements may include ticket sellers, band merchandise, music systems such as i-pods and mp3s and music shops.
- The magazine will cost £2 as this is the price that my target audience are happy to spend on a magazine. I found this out from my audience research questionnaire.


QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

Here are the questions I asked for my questionnaire and the results:

1. How much are you willing to spend on a magazine?
£1.50 |
£2 ||||
£3 |||
£4+ ||

By these results, I know to price my magazine £2.

2. Do you attend any gigs or festivals?
Yes, both ||
Just gigs ||||
Just festivals |
None |||

I know what music events to focus on within the magazine. The most popular result, gigs, can be advertised within the magazine too.

3. How much do you spend a month going to live music events?
Only go occasionally |||||
£0-10 ||||
£10-25 |
£25-50

Live music events can also be mentioned within the magazine, and could even focus on persuading the audience to attend more music events.

4. How much do you spend on music CD's or downloads per month?
Nothing |||||
£0-10 ||
£10-20 |||
£20-30
£30+

I could perhaps focus on advertising or writing articles about CD's and downloads.

5. How do you buy your music?
CD's ||
iTunes Downloads |||
Illegal Downloads |||||
Other

As illegally downloading seems to be popular, my magazine could focus on trying to put the audience off downloading illegally and make CD's and iTunes Downloads more approachable.

6. Where are your favourite shops for clothing?
Topman & Burton |||||||
JD Sports & Bank
Free Spirit & Fat Face |||
Next & River Island

Clothing for Topman and Burton could be mentioned and advertised within my magazine.

7. Who are your favourite bands?
Muse, Stereophonics |||
My Chemical Romance, Escape the Fate ||
The Fray, The Calling, The Script |||||
Splipknot, Bring me the Horizon

Bands such as The Fray, The Calling, The Script and other similar genres can mentioned and advertised within my magazine.

8. Do you play any instruments?
Yes |||
No |||||||

I could perhaps write about playing instruments and make it attractive and interesting to the audience that don't play instruments.

9. What do you look for when purchasing a magazine?
Images |||||||
Captions ||
Colour Scheme
Price |

I need to focus on the images in terms of the composition and the model to attract my audience.