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This is a board mood I produced to help me see what colours work well with each other. After annalysising what colours go well together and the style of magazine I want to produce I picked purple/blue/black combination. I picked these colours because they work well against each other and don't clash. Also they are quite likeable colours.

This is a mood board of the different type on fonts i could possibly use. I decided to use a simplistic looking typography in black. I dedcided this to help make the magazine look professional and also so it stands out is readable for my target audience.

Analysis of NME Magazine:

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My initial idea for my own music magazine is:
I first thought about doing a rock based music magazine but decided that it would be hard to compete in the market as very saturated with magazine's such as Kerrang. So I looked at the music I actually liked which was a wide range so from my own tastes I decided for me it would be best to do a charts magazine. Unfortunately most chart music magazine in the United Kingdom died out such as Top of the Pops magazine as it couldnt compete against the internet, so I would re-launch a chart music magazine as there is definitely a market for a chart music magazine. I would also keep my charts music magazines popular by making it different from the others, so hopefully it can run for a while and hopefully wont die out so making it different from the others will hopefully maintain an audience. I am basing this on the idea of the American chart magazine Billboard which is very successful. So I’m aiming it to be quite professional and my target audience would be around the ages of 17-25. The proportion of females to males I estimate would be about 70%females and 30% males because women tend to be the ones that want to know everything and this magazine would appeal. Adverts that will appear in the magazine are things like, hmv, car adverts, music channels, TV programmes, tours/events etc. They will appear in the magazine as they will appeal to the intended audience. My magazine will be published every two weeks on a wednesday as its midweek and will be priced around £2.20 to compete with other music magazines out there but also enough to gain a profit so the magazine company don't go bust.

Institutional data of NME music magazine
The NME stands for New Musical Express. It is a popular and a well-known magazine across the United Kingdom. The NME has been published as a weekly magazine dating back from March 1952. NME was the first British paper to include a singles chart from the 1952 to present.
The NME is priced at £2.20 per issue, its circulation figures is 56,284 with a readership of 411,000. NME is mainly aimed at men aged 17-30. 73% male and 27% female is the proportion the magazine is aimed at. In 1996 NME launched at website so it is more accessible to more people 24/7.

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The demographic profile of my music magazines target audience would look something like this:
My magazine is a “Billboard” style magazine so therefore I believe the target audience is around 17-25 years of age. My magazine I would say would more be aimed at women because they are the ones that tend to have an interest in everything that’s happening. So I would say 70% females and 30% males. Its Regionality is in town/city because that’s where lots of things happen and easy to distribute. I believe that my audiences marital status would either be single or in a relationship as the magazine is aimed at young adults and most of would probably be some sort of education. The social status my magazine is aiming at is the C-D because the products being advertise are affordable and it appeals to more audiences that way.
Psychographic profile of my music magazine target audience:
I believe my magazines psychographic profile would be the aspirers because the audience is young and wanting to be something better and working at it.
The lifestyle subsets for my magazine are:
I believe the lifestyle subset for my music magazine is Yuppies because they are young have no kids and are working for themselves.

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Journalism task: Review of 2012(2009)
The movie 2012 is directed by Roland Emmerich who has done film such as Independence Day, The day after tomorrow and Godzilla. But unfortunately this film of his is not the best he has done. Although the film requires a lot of special effects which are generally good throughout the film in some places they need to sort out as it did look quite fake and sort of wrecked the whole experience of the disaster. The ending is really disappointing. It ends on a high note and after everything they discover the disaster weren’t as bad as suspected which wrecked the whole point of the film. The storyline is quite good as the father is fighting to keep his family alive but they do come across some tricky tasks that people wouldn’t generally survive so it makes the film seem really unrealistic. Another thing is the acting is quite poorly done and in some places is quite painful to watch. Also the whole film is literally based round 2 characters but because you know they are going to be ok it’s hard to sympathise with them so the some characters you do end up caring about have little screen time.
(Aimed at 18-24 year olds)

2012 is a rubbish film. If you want to waste near to 3 hours of your time watching the most pointless movie ever then this is the right film, if not don’t watch it. The graphics/special effects are really pathetic at times which makes it really hard to watch. The acting is really, really bad even my gran could do better. The storyline is also really useless as it’s about a dad trying to save his family and not a sacrifice was made so they all survived which silly really as it is a disaster movie.
(Aimed at 13-16 year olds)

The demographic profile of my chosen magazines target audience would look something like this:
For an “ok” style magazine I believe the target audience would be round mid 20’s to about 40’s, this is because I believe that they would be working and would like to come home and relax. It is aimed at women because of the adverts inside such as; homely products and perfume/make-up etc. I think it’s Regionality is city/towns because that’s where all the action happens and there’s not anything about country life in it. I think that this style of magazine is aimed at married people because it has that homely feel to it and has things in it of celebs marriages and so they compare themselves to each other. The social status is round about the C-D area because inside its not advertising expensive luxuries and the English inside is not that hard.
Psychographic profile of my chosen magazine target audience:
Mainstreamers. I believe it’s more aimed at mainstreamers because a lot of women between the ages of about 25-40 yrs old are either starting their life or calming things down so being considered as “normal” would represent the mainstreamers for this. And this also is considered for 40% of the population so there must be a market for it.
The lifestyle subsets for my magazine are:
I believe the lifestyle subset for “ok” is yuppies. Because it is aimed at a young/middle aged audience.