Thursday, 26 April 2012
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my magazine I have created, is a wide youthful audience from the ages of 16 to 24. I mentioned the word youthful because this relates to the majority of the indie genre artists, for example arctic monekys and florence and the machine.
The colour I feel, can also connote to the fact that is is targeted for males and females using a colour scheme of red. Here are a few videos that relate to my magazine, and that opens up the target audiences:
The colour I feel, can also connote to the fact that is is targeted for males and females using a colour scheme of red. Here are a few videos that relate to my magazine, and that opens up the target audiences:
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
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Monday, 5 December 2011
Double Page spread Article
Arctic Monkeys. Back with a bang.
Sunday night I saw the Arctic Monkeys on their second night of their current UK tour presenting their fourth album, Suck It And See, and what a hell of a night! The 02 Arena can be an overwhelming place - but for these Northern boys, it seemed like an easy ride. Their set exploded with all their classic hits, Including ‘Teddy Picker’ and ‘Crying Lightning’ and the crowd had an outstanding energy.
With the back setting of the stage being very simple, just a plain red dim background with stage lights dangling from the ceiling. But, as you can tell the how the stage was presented was the last thing your eyes were on. Arctic Monkeys don’t need a big stage or glitter and strobe lights to put on a show. And what a show it was.
The opener was of course, Don't Sit Down Cause' I've Moved Your Chair; taken from their new album, which really set the night off well - a fantastic builder with the endearing Yorkshire accent of front man, Alex Turner. With a set of 21 songs, they echoed through each track, with each superb song setting the audience off. By the time the sixth song, Brainstorm was upon us, I’m sure some of the audience were gasping for water.
The classic crowd was there the indie teens, and hipsters, the lot with the floppy hair, but what really sets the Arctic Monkeys apart from other alternative rock bands, is the unique lyrics of Turner's song writing. Hearing those lines that you've grown so familiar to, with thousands of other people singing along, must be captivating. Lines you sing in your bedroom mirror like: "She don't do major credit cards, I doub't she does receipts. It's all not quite legitamate", are just pure gold. The wordplay and the gritty subject matters is everything the Arctic Monkeys are about.
Their new material was swallowed up well (As Turner says) by the audience, with big tracks like Hellcat Spangled Shalalala being proof that the band's move to America hasn't in any shape or form changed their British shine or Turner's ability to write outstanding lyrics. What was really clear tonight, was that all this talk of guitar and rock n’ roll music being dead is complete shit. The Arctic Monkeys manage to keep up the classic rock template, and bring it up to date, and at arenas like the London 02, the band couldn't be more in their element. Turner pulled the classic poses and standard rock front man routines, as he stood with his foot on the monitor, and fell to his knees to work his guitar Hendrix style. It's classic and I hope he never changes; Turner was every inch the showman.
Of course, the best song of the night for me -When The Sun Goes Down, provoked a riot. The crowd’s anticipation was amazing, then, as the song dropped, a full mosh pit broke out and things got hectic! Something I definitely didn't expect from Arctic Monkeys fans!
As their set came to a close, the band didn't forget about their responsibilities as music idols. Turner took to the microphone and warmly said: "Jimmy Savile rest in peace", before breaking into the encore, with the room shaking song ‘505’ truly one of the best songs they’ve made for me. Not one of their most famous of course, but when Turner breaks out in the song ‘But I crumble completely when you cry’ every devoted fan was chanting the lyrics. A spectacular night.
Sunday night I saw the Arctic Monkeys on their second night of their current UK tour presenting their fourth album, Suck It And See, and what a hell of a night! The 02 Arena can be an overwhelming place - but for these Northern boys, it seemed like an easy ride. Their set exploded with all their classic hits, Including ‘Teddy Picker’ and ‘Crying Lightning’ and the crowd had an outstanding energy.
With the back setting of the stage being very simple, just a plain red dim background with stage lights dangling from the ceiling. But, as you can tell the how the stage was presented was the last thing your eyes were on. Arctic Monkeys don’t need a big stage or glitter and strobe lights to put on a show. And what a show it was.
The opener was of course, Don't Sit Down Cause' I've Moved Your Chair; taken from their new album, which really set the night off well - a fantastic builder with the endearing Yorkshire accent of front man, Alex Turner. With a set of 21 songs, they echoed through each track, with each superb song setting the audience off. By the time the sixth song, Brainstorm was upon us, I’m sure some of the audience were gasping for water.
The classic crowd was there the indie teens, and hipsters, the lot with the floppy hair, but what really sets the Arctic Monkeys apart from other alternative rock bands, is the unique lyrics of Turner's song writing. Hearing those lines that you've grown so familiar to, with thousands of other people singing along, must be captivating. Lines you sing in your bedroom mirror like: "She don't do major credit cards, I doub't she does receipts. It's all not quite legitamate", are just pure gold. The wordplay and the gritty subject matters is everything the Arctic Monkeys are about.
Their new material was swallowed up well (As Turner says) by the audience, with big tracks like Hellcat Spangled Shalalala being proof that the band's move to America hasn't in any shape or form changed their British shine or Turner's ability to write outstanding lyrics. What was really clear tonight, was that all this talk of guitar and rock n’ roll music being dead is complete shit. The Arctic Monkeys manage to keep up the classic rock template, and bring it up to date, and at arenas like the London 02, the band couldn't be more in their element. Turner pulled the classic poses and standard rock front man routines, as he stood with his foot on the monitor, and fell to his knees to work his guitar Hendrix style. It's classic and I hope he never changes; Turner was every inch the showman.
Of course, the best song of the night for me -When The Sun Goes Down, provoked a riot. The crowd’s anticipation was amazing, then, as the song dropped, a full mosh pit broke out and things got hectic! Something I definitely didn't expect from Arctic Monkeys fans!
As their set came to a close, the band didn't forget about their responsibilities as music idols. Turner took to the microphone and warmly said: "Jimmy Savile rest in peace", before breaking into the encore, with the room shaking song ‘505’ truly one of the best songs they’ve made for me. Not one of their most famous of course, but when Turner breaks out in the song ‘But I crumble completely when you cry’ every devoted fan was chanting the lyrics. A spectacular night.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Article Research
Arctic Monkeys research
Rock and roll inspired this album (Alex turner - boys are back in town ‘boss’)
Describe themselves as a festival band, but enjoy doing both. Love gigs and club shows
Get that ‘buzz ‘after a show still
Enjoy playing suck it and see album ‘been swallowed well’
Describe humbug album as ‘out of the way’ they needed to get it out of they’re system
Personal subjects, ‘the spangled hellcat Shalala’
Year and a half on a world tour, not much personal time
Highlights – America
Record fans, Indie. Shop in Sheffield ‘Jacks’ buy records, The smiths
Staying out of trouble
Suck it and see, name came from Alex wrote a song. Going to call it ‘Thriller’ British sound
Table tennis, keep entertained on tour
Arcade fire beat Alex turner in table tennis
Small and big venues
Sweeter side, good foundation of songs, new sounds– album
Played house of blues – inspiring
Proud of first album, where they’ve got today, means something to the fans
The Smiths major influence
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Publication Plan
Title: Exit Music
Positioning statement: Music our way.
Price: £3.80
Rationale: The approach of this magazine is for the public, age range of 16 upwards who are interested in the Indie music genre. People who are interested in festivals, gigs and unknown artists also.
Style: Informal, because we can relate towards the readers and invite them in to the magazine content.
Regular content:
Positioning statement: Music our way.
Price: £3.80
Frequency of publication: This will be monthly. Because all music magazines I have researched and that are successful are monthly.
Distribution: Newsagents, supermarkets and music shops (e.g HMV)
Rationale: The approach of this magazine is for the public, age range of 16 upwards who are interested in the Indie music genre. People who are interested in festivals, gigs and unknown artists also.
Style: Informal, because we can relate towards the readers and invite them in to the magazine content.
Regular content:
-Editors letter
-Top ten albums
-Top ten singles
-Fans forum
-Competitions
-Poster of the Month
-Fan Mail
-Fashion
-Subscribe
-What were listening to
Feature content:
-Arctic Monkeys back with a bang
-New on the scene
-The Vaccines revel all
-Festival Reviews
-Top 50 albums of 2011
-In the studio with The Kooks
-At home with Bombay Bicycle Club
-You Tube stars on the rise
-When will MGMT return?
-A weekend with the stars
-Gorillaz work non stop
-Elvis Costello, the man, the legend
-Guitar or bass?
-Nirvana Christmas number 1?
-Florence and the machine they're storming new album
-Radiohead tour 2012?
-Glee destroying Yeah Yeah Yeahs song
-New generation of Indie
-Unsigned Artists
-The return of a legend Ian Durie
-Top ten albums
-Top ten singles
-Fans forum
-Competitions
-Poster of the Month
-Fan Mail
-Fashion
-Subscribe
-What were listening to
Feature content:
-Arctic Monkeys back with a bang
-New on the scene
-The Vaccines revel all
-Festival Reviews
-Top 50 albums of 2011
-In the studio with The Kooks
-At home with Bombay Bicycle Club
-You Tube stars on the rise
-When will MGMT return?
-A weekend with the stars
-Gorillaz work non stop
-Elvis Costello, the man, the legend
-Guitar or bass?
-Nirvana Christmas number 1?
-Florence and the machine they're storming new album
-Radiohead tour 2012?
-Glee destroying Yeah Yeah Yeahs song
-New generation of Indie
-Unsigned Artists
-The return of a legend Ian Durie
Questonarrie: Pie Chart Analysis
This is a pie chart to show what gender the people are who
answered my questionnaire. It shows that more people are female
than male that have answered this questionnaire. This is mostly
down to the ratio of people I asked, and also this school being a
all girls school it is not very correct. But there is most answers that
I can work with.
This pie chart is to show how old the people are who
are answering my questionnaire. As you can see, the
bigger ratio is 16-20 year olds. This shows me that more
young people are interested in indie music then elder.
This is a pie chart to show what genre of music people
are interested in. Many people as you can see enjoy R&B
and Pop. But the biggest section is Indie music. This is
good, and will effect my research well as am creating
a Indie music magazine and as I can see the majority
of people who answered my questionnaire enjoy indie
music.
The two above pie charts show me if people do enjoy Indie
music they have ticket yes. If not they have ticked no. Then
further if they have answered yes, they have told me who
they're favourite band of the Indie genre is. This is a very
open question, so many people have answered very
differently. But once again, we can clearly see the bigger
section is the band 'Arctic Monkeys' and this will work well
with my research as I can mention them in my magazine
and know the majority of people will like them
This is pie chart that you could only answer is answered 'yes'
to the question that asks, "Do you enjoy indie music'. After
replying who your favourite band is, I then further asked
what they're favourite song is, and I got a wide variety
response. But we can see, that the bigger sections are
'The Vaccines - Post break up sex' and 'Arctic Monkeys -
Bet that you look good on the dancefloor' the band Arctic
monkeys are mentioned once again in this question, so I
can see the public are very familiar with this band.
This is a pie chart to show if people buy music magazines
or not. By the results we can see that the majority of people
do purchase music magazines, this works out very well with
my research.
This pie chart carries on with the previous questions, and
I further ask how often they purchase music magazines.
I have given three options, and the majority of the people
have answered monthly. Most successful music magazines
out at the moment are monthly, so I can use this in my
initial ideas planning.
This pie chart show us what price people would like to pay for
a music magazine. This result is very mixed, £2 and £4 are
pretty much the same, so this give a variation. So I can work
out the median price, and use that for my own magazine.
This pie chart shows us what the public most enjoy in music
magazine. As we can see, the majority of the public enjoy
the interviews with the artists so this will work well as I
am producing a double page spread of the artist and using
an interview.
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