Music Magazine Questionnaire

Music Magazine Questionnaire

Please CIRCLE your answers

1.      Are you male or female?

Male                                        Female

2.      How old are you?

14 or under     15-24               25-34               35&above

3.      How often do you tend to buy magazines?

More than once a week                      Every Week         Every fortnight                               Every Month                        Every 6 months                       Never

4.      Most amount your willing to spend on a magazine?

£1&under        £1-£2               £2-£3               £3-£4               £4-£5               £5&above

5.      What kind of things attracts you to a front cover of a magazine?

Colours            Font                 Pictures                       Bands                                                   Other (please state)……………………..

6.      What sort of magazines do you read?

Music              Fashion                        Sport                Cooking                       Leisure                                                Other (please state)………………………..

7.      What do you look for in a music magazine?

Freebies                      Gossip              Interviews                   Popular Bands             Upcoming Bands                     Other (please state)…………………………………..

8.      What is your favourite genre of music?

Rock                Pop                  Charts              R&B                 Rap                  Indie                Other (please state)……………………………..

9.      How often do you attend live gigs?

More than once a week                      Every Week        Every fortnight                                     Every Month             Every 6 months                       Never

Media Magazine Photos

Possible Music Magazine Names

 Possible Magazine Names

GRIME TIME:  image on the front will be a Grime MC or producer because this will relate to the genre of the magazine

Beatz:  image on the frontcover showing a student wearing Dr Dre's "Beats" Headphones

Power Beats:  shows the idea of strong music, could suggest dance and dubstep

Muzik:  spelt in slang to give the magazine a unique style

Mastermix:  a mixture of dance and pop music

iMusic:  mainly pop music and based on iTunes

Eargasm:  shows the love and affection of "music to the ears"

BASE!  suggests the idea of underground music, garage, house beats

Hit 'n' Rave:  based on popular dance culture

Volume:  suggest the idea of turning music up and down

TURN IT UP!  could suggest the idea of big, loud, music tunes

Decks:  relates to Dance and Techno DJs mixing decks in raves

Shuffle:  the idea of switching music playlists based on the shuffle feature on iPods and Mp3 Players

Music Roulette:  similar to 'Shuffle' because it picks music genres at random

Brief

Formal brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP. 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).