As part of our research and planning, we wrote a questionnaire with questions based around the Indie genre and asked a random selection of people.

The questions were :

1 - What colours do you usually link with the Indie Rock / Pop type of music?

2 - Name 5 Indie bands which you think present what the Indie genre is all about

3 - Where are you most likely to hear Indie music?

4 - What does Indie music usually make you feel? Do you link the genre with a specific emotion?

5 - Do you think there is a typical Indie listener? What characteristics do they usually have?

The questions were written by Becky.

Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc4uSRiw1os&feature=youtube

The filming and editing was done by Christie. xo

Questionnaire

Finding out target audience for our music magazine...
Market Research; ask 3-4 people the same 5 questions, learning about prefrences to make the best possible magazine.

Questions
1. What colours do you usually link with the Inide Rock/Pop type of music?
2. Name 5 typical indie bands, that represent what the Indie Genre is all about?
3. Where are you most likely to hear Indie Music?
4. How does Indie music usually make you feel, do you link the Genre to a specific emotion?
5. Do you think there is a typical Indie listener, what characteristic do they usually have?

Becky

What's our audience...?

Brainstorming all aspects of our target and potential audience...

Becky

Double Page Spread

A double page spread of an article in Mojo Magazine, showing us how to continue on with our own magazine... It shows that codes and conventions carry on throught a magazine to constantly keep a reader intrested and involved. Keeping it 'Indie' is important for contrubution of a magazine as it keep an audience hooked. - Becky

This is a double page spread of Rihanna from a music magazine. I have analysed three main parts of the article. Christie 

First analysis completed by Becky, bottom by Christie.

A Indie Music Magazine... MOJO!

An analysis of a indie music magazine that will help us plan our own magazine with common codes and conventions of 'typical' indie music. We have broken down all elements the indie magazine showing what makes it indie and how it will apeal to our target audience. Becky

This is my analysis of the front cover of an Alternative Press Magazine issue with Yellowcard as the main image. I have analysed different aspects of the front cover on different slides. Christie

First analysis completed by Becky, bottom by Christie.

Preliminary Task- Magazine Cover.

Improvements
The text is extreamly important as it needs to be bold and easy to read to apeal to the audience and the comsumer. On my Music magazine, i should go for a much easier text to read but that had a personality that matches with our hippy/indie genre.

A non-busy background will work much better on a magazine cover! So on my next cover opt for a simple one colour background, black white or red (typical music representation colours) to make it seem for appealing to potential buyers.

Use more infomation on the frount cover to intise the audience in and give them an insite on what the magazine is about... keep them wanting more- this will boost sales as people will want to know more about what you touched on in the cover page. Becky

This is my college magazine front cover. Improvements I would make would be to compose the photograph better so that the layout of the magazine cover could be more aesthetically pleasing, e.g. I would place the christmas tree in a different place so that it had more of a purpose in the background. Also I would use more appealing text for the sell lines so that the magazine would attract students, and use a different colour scheme. Christie

This is the contents page for my magazine.

Christie

Mood Board

Finding Codes & Conventions for our chosen Genre; Indie pop/rock/R&B.

This is our second mood board which shows the sub genre of Indie - Indie Pop. This sub genre appears much more colourful than the genre as a whole

This was our Indie R&B mood board.

This is our indie Rock mood board.

We found that bright colours, outside environment, acoustic intruments and a calm rock look was typical to indie artists and followers.

Becky; 2 mood boards       Christie; 2 mood boards.

Christie & Becky x

6th Form Students at MV16 Centre-Christie Maughan & Becky Hewitt.
Christie- The 'stereotypical' Blonde.
Becky- The 'strereotypical' Geek.

The blog is for our AS Media Coursework, showing the stages as to how we created our Music Industry Magazine... Our blog will show our analysis & research, front cover, contents page & a double page spread; and all the bits inbetween!

Choosing our Genre...

This was to help me decide what type of genre we would use for magazine analysis. It was used for brainstorming Indie code and conventions.

Becky