Draft Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

After looking at the main institutions that are involved with publishing and distributing music magazines I have decided to use Bauer Media to be the publisher. This company are already being successful with the magazine MOJO, in the first half of 2012, MOJO sold a staggering 84,560 copies and has seen rises in sales ever since. 

(taken from the Bauer Media website)

"MOJO is the world’s largest UK music magazine, delivering a monthly dose of world class journalism and iconic photography to an audience of extremely passionate music consumers. If you’re featured in MOJO, you matter."

I think that there is a gap in the market for a mainstream, weekly magazine aimed at 17-30 yea olds therefore I feel that Bauer Media could make my magazine successful. Bauer Media also have MOJO as an online magazine which I could use with my magazine. As my social groups of Indie Scenesters and Scene Kids are often downloading things onto iPads and iPhones and looking at things online they may prefer a digital version as apposed to buying a paper copy from a local newsagents like anybody could do. Social media is also a huge part of my target social groups, especially scene kids, which could be another way in which my magazine gets publicised. 

With the great name and well known success Bauer Media has I think that they could take my magazine and create a great name for and continue their thriving reputation by filling the ago in the market with my magazine. 

Contents Page

As my magazine is a mainstream magazine that features artists and music genres I wanted to create a contents that is similar to magazines that do the same thing. For my draft contents page I used NME as a style model. I chose to make my contents simpler as I thought that these contents pages were too busy.

Target Setting Post

My target of the week is to complete the task list of analysing 3 again covers, 3 contents pages and 3 double page spread. I also plan to put together a post including my favourite covers from the last 12 months and figure out what genre I want my magazine to be and justify that decision.

NME

NME is one of the magazines I plan to use as a style model for my magazine.
Arctic Monkeys are one of my favorite bands and this is a very good cover but very busy.
I like the idea of the artist/s being the central image and magazine name NME covered slightly.
The NME is a very well known magazine company and have a distinct style and design both on the cover and within the articles. The NME can afford to cover the name slightly and it has began to become a regular thing for them. Other magazines such as Q and Rolling Stone also use this cover up technique as both are well known mainstream magazines.

I like how the majority of the NME's covers used the classic colour combination of black, white and red so that even though the covers are busy and full of text the colour isn't too much so that the cover becomes overcrowded and too much.

Covers

Articles