Our ideas for the magazine

The main picture of the magazine is going to be of a student in a MCU shot and a low angle shot of the student looking down. All that will be in the background is sky. this will connote to the reader youth and freedom as the sky is in the image.

How we will communicate theses connotations to our target audience

We are going to communicate these connotations mention in the previous post in different ways. We will use pictures as a way to communicate these connotations, for example we can use a picture of a young model in a area that will connote youth and freedom. We will also use text font as another way to communicate connotations, for example if we use 'soft' rounded letter for the masthead etc, we can connote a friendly image.

Connotations we will communitcate to the reader

As our readers will be students we will try and connote youth/teenagers and freedom. We have chosen to make our student magazine on Rock/pop music so it is crucial that it connotes Rock/pop music. We are also going to connote being friendly for males and females.

Target Audience

Our magazine is going to be targeted at Radicalists / Individualists. As it is a student magazine the age range is 16-19. Our magazine is going to be a music based magazine. From our research we have found that readers like to read about reviews and interview with bands, we have also seen that student readers like posters of bands and artists, therefore we are targeting our magazine at people who like to cover their bedroom walls in band posters. We have also seen that there has not been a specific gender target so we are going to aim our magazine at both genders, although it will not contain any girly horoscopes, etc.

Pop/rock and Indy/Alternative music will be the general theme. As this is the most popular types of music to students. We will also attract students from our low RRP as students may be finding it hard with money. We are going to include reviews of the latest films and DVD’s.

Research of student magazines

We have searched for student magazines using an search engine, we have found that the most popular student magazine is music magazines. So we are going to make our magazine in the music theme as well.