Preparation

The first thing before creating my magazine front cover i had to decide on the name for my magazine. The name i chose for my magazine is BREAK, i think this is a good choice of name because in musical terms break means a technique in which instruments stop playing for a short period of time allowing a singer or a instrumental soloist to be heard alone, this links in with the genre which my music magazine is going to be because it is going to be indie/rock and at the begining or end of indie/rock songs, this technique is sometimes used. Also the reason for choosing BREAK for the name of my magazine came to me when i wa thinking about when rock artists peform and they seem quite agressive and when you think of aggresive people you could think that they break things in their aggression. The target audience formy magazine is tennagers aged between 15-19 and are females, this is because the magazine will be female dominated and focuses around the ag range ofthe target audience for people in the music industry. The secondary audience for my magazine would be people outside that age range and they would be male,because stereotypically you wouldnt expect a boy to be reading a female dominated magazine. Because my magazine is female dominated the representation will focus around that gender. The representation of females in my magazine will be that they are very strong and independant and really know what they want to do, i want to shine a posotive light on the young females because normally in the media young people are stereotypically portrayed as being yobs and causing trouble, when they are not all like that, so i want to show what young people can be likeand they can be good and achieve something out of life. The price of my magazine will be £2.99, i think that this price is uitable and affordabl because the people that will hopefully buy my magazine will be teenagers and tennagers dont get a lot of mony if they are unemployed and this is where social groups come in and as tennagers we fit into the category E which means we are quite low down in the heirarchy of social group and because thats where people who are unemployed are considered, so the price of £2.99 is affordable because teenagers could save their pocket money up if they get some or just ask for money of their parents as its not much and the magazine is only released weekly. I would want my magazine to be sold nationally so that it gets a wide customer base so that the recognition of my magazine will expand and the places i would want my magazine to be sold are newsagents and supermarkets because that is where magazines are normally sold.