The Magazine Rationale

The name of my magazine is “Epic Music”. Epic has connotations of meaning great and amazing and it is a strong term, especially in a magazine. The word “Epic” is also a very teenage linked term, and since there are not many current magazines with this name, it makes my magazine more memorable. The audience therefore, is mainly teenagers. In terms of genre, I have mainly went for “New Acoustic” and “Pop”. My reason is I feel in the market at this moment, there many rock magazines, and I wanted to make a magazine that has a gap in the market and that there needs to be more of this type of genre magazines. An image for my magazine is a music artist (not professional) who is playing an acoustic guitar. It appeals to my reader because it is realistic and is typical of what you would see a music artist doing. Another image I have is of my mother holding a young child (my mother acting as a music artist). This image is beneficial and appeals to the audience because for my sub-headline I have said something along the lines of “Paula’s reaction of being a full-time mother”. It also helps link my magazine elements together. The primary audience is certainly anyone who is a weekly buyer of my magazine and anyone who is a fan of the music artist on the front cover. The secondary audience are mothers buying the magazine for their son or daughter. This leads to the gender of the magazine. The gender of my magazine I would say is females, yet it still as elements that would appeal to a male. The age, as said before, is teenagers. Similarly to the images I have used, the male music artist on my front cover is presented professionally and formal due to his facial expressions. All of my images have similar stereotypes in where their positioning and facial expressions are quite serious looking. On my double-page spread I will have on of the images taking up one of the pages. The other side of the page is a questionnaire I will be carrying out. It will include questions and answers and hopefully prove out to be effective.