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I used my twitter account to learn of some real-life professional music magazine to gain an insight into what kind of coverlines and articles they produce. Twitter is a popular social media site, in doing research on this site I have gained extra auidence feedback by accessing other peoples tweets concerning music magazines.
 Furthermore, while on Twitter I looked up popular trends which lead me to a trend which read; "#askzoella" this trend means fans can ask direct questions to the celebrity / artist. I believe that this is a great way to include the audience and so I have decided that this would be a good feature to include on my double page spread.

Masthead ideas and plans

From researching music meanings I have found two potential masthead ideas; mezzo or elemant.

Mezzo comes from the word mezzo-soprano in music which is a popular tone of voice - used in pop and rock songs which is the genre of my music magazine. I feel this word would be clever and inspiring to have as the name of my magazine. 

Elemant is a word I have drafted coming from the word element, which is a key term used in the music industry. I created this word as I feel it is more professional and classic rather than just element. 

Audience feedback - photoshoot

My target audience need to be appealed to my magazine - images are the most important element of a magazine and so I thought it would be essential to gain feedback from my audience on the images I have taken and plan to include in my magazine. I used Padlet to display these images and use social media (facebook) to get my audience to chose what photos they liked best.

Created with Padlet

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draft flat plans

To further prepare for constructing my music magazine I decided to create two front cover drafts with mock mastheads and coverlines - I experimented with photoshop as practice for editing the real image for my front cover. The images below show my mock flat plans and my analysis of them. 

Photoshop plan

flat plans

Moodboard

I have created this moodboard on a programme called 'animoto'. This moodboard helps to create a house style of my content and the images I would like to recreate in my music magazine. This task allows me to plan ahead of how I will communicate with the audience through my choice of colour and content.

Music magazine ideas - prezi

This prezi illustrates my ideas and planning for my music magazine. In completeing this prezi I have a clear idea about my magazine on what I want it to look like and other features I wish to include.

Ideal reader - reader profile

I have created this reader profile as I feel it is important to source potential companies with would be interested in advertising in my music magazine. This profile allows me to see what my target audience are interested in and so I can reach out to companies in which sell the product or service. 

Advertising in music magazine is most important due to the high selling rate of the magazines - money is obtained from this advertising and so profit will be made. 

Advertisements may also be of an interest to the reader as I will use the most common interests to advertise to my audience.

My ideal reader is based on the common traits and interests of a reader reading my music magazine.

Target audience research