TARGET AUDIENCE

My definition:
The specific audience that you want to target, usually determined by age groups, gender or marital status.


Definition from the internet:

Particular group of people, identified as the intendedrecipient of an advertisement or message. Also called target population.

Companies, especially magazines, consider in great detail their specific target audience, because it helps chose the theme, colour, all-round look of the magazine to  target that audience and make them want to buy it because it looks like something they would be interested in. 


Genres of Music:
Rock;
Indie Rock
Grunge
Symphonic Rock
Arena Rock (often referred to as "Hair Rock," as a reference to the associated hair style of many bands)
Metal:
Heavy Metal
Punk
Ska
Alternative Metal/Nu Metal
Dance:
Electronic Disco
Electro
Electro-funk
Garage
Disco-rock
House
Dubstep
Jazz:
The Blues
Big Band
Free Jazz
Country 
Soul
Hip-hop:
R'n'B
Rap
Pop:
New Wave
Bubblegum Pop
Traditional Pop
Power Pop
Pop Punk
Indie Pop
Pop Rap
Acoustic Pop


I have narrowed it down to two genre styles that I am considering as the genre for my music magazine, which are Indie Pop or Country music. I have thoroughly researched artist which are within the genres of country music and indie pop music.
Country Music Artist:
Shania Twain
Taylor Swift
Billy Ray Cyrus
LeAnn Rimes
Dolly Parton
Faith Hill
Colbie Callait
Jason Reeves
Lady Antebellum
Indie-Pop Artists:
Alphabeat
Arcade Fire
Florence and the Machine
Goo Goo Dolls
Gym Class Heroes
Gregory and the Hawk
Hellogoodbye
Kate Nash
Keane
Jack Penate

FRONT COVER AND CONTENTS

Here is my front cover for my Student Magazine. I like the set-up with the different sizes of fonts which makes the text stand out. I like that I've used different colours to catch readers attention and to make it stand out against other magazines. I like the image but for improvement I wouldn't take the photo against such a busy and detailed background, because it makes it hard work to find a font style to stand out against the background. I chose the colours to match her coat to keep the colour theme together and I chose the green to match the grass but also contrast against the white, blue and red.

This is my contents page, I chose the same colour theme to make the contents and front cover match. And I put the relative photos to the stories.

Photography

For my main image for my student magazine I needed to take some photographs of an individual person who looks like a typical student. I took about 10-13 photos all together and picked out the best ones. In this blog I have included my favourite photos and ones that didn't work, and I'm going to evaluate why they didn't work.
I had to consider many things when taking my photos, the photography HAD to be a medium shot of the person and I had to consider the composition, the students positioning, had o be aware not to cut out the students arms or chop of their head in the photos. And I had t remember to leave enough space about the individuals head to have space for a masthead. Also, I had t be aware of leaving space on the left hand side for coverlines. 

I used 'Rule-of-Thirds' to consider where the persons eye-point would be and how much of the photograph they would take up. I used the intersection points on the cameras settings to make sure the composition of the photo was what I wanted. 

This would be a good photograph to use for my front cover however, the background is too blank and would look very 'set-up' and not the college/university setting I was hoping for. 

This photograph was another option I was considering as my front cover image. I like the composition of the photo, and the horizontal lines created by the bricks is really interesting, they make the viewer follow the lines of the bricks.

I wanted some photographs taken outside to get the autumn colours in the photo, to go with the season. However, in this photo i cut half of the persons face and body out, which made this image un-useable and I took more photos using the same settings, but being more aware of the persons whereabouts.

This is the image I used on my front cover, I took the photograph on a higher place so it's looking down on the person. I managed to not cut out any part of the persons face or body, and i kept a space above the head, enough room left for a mast head. And I like the colours f the leaves and the overall composition, giving a lot of detail but still being able to keep the colours subtle enough to have a colour theme.