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Risk Assessment

As it’s in my house there’s not many risk, the only real risk is the use of the instruments and their leads, I plan to wrap the leads around different body parts and connect all of the band members but I will ensure that this is not done tightly and that the leads are long enough so that any sudden movements of another band member will not cause an injury to someone. As the members with instruments are musicians they should be careful with them naturally as they don’t wish any harm to them so this also should not be a problem, especially not seeing as I’ll be moving the people around so they don’t walk into each other or into each others instruments.

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Research Methods

I think my research methods will be mainly based secondary because the Internet and books from a library can be very helpful as to finding out things about magazines and their audiences and the bands in the magazines etc. But they may be unreliable or not give enough information but with the use of books it’s unlikely for them to be unreliable and if I’m careful I will find the right information on the Internet by looking at official pages. I will also be using primary methods for when I’ve started my magazine layout, I will want the opinion of my possible audience to tell me what kind of things they like, so I will use questionnaires and maybe some interviews, these can help me make better decisions especially if I have a lot of options and I’m not sure which I like best. The only issue with this kind of research is people can lie but in this kind of questionnaire I doubt they would. I would also like to use some qualitative research such as a focus group because they are very good for exploration for when we don’t know what to expect or for fixing any problems, but whether I’d be able to actually do this I am currently unsure.

Investigate two music magazines currently on sale in Britain

Top of the Pops

Top of the pops is a British music chart television programme which this magazine has evolved from.  Top of the pops or TOTP which was made by the BBC and broadcast weekly from 1^st  January 1964 to 30^th July 2006. Top of the pops still publishes a monthly publication by BBC magazines. This features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters, although, this magazine was launched in 1995 and is famous for giving girl group The Spice Girls their nicknames.  It was the genre between smash hits and NME, but it was gradually changed with less music content and a demographic shift to young girls.

The magazine is noted for its bright colours and engaging pop stars which help to aim the target audience of young teenage girls. It includes the latest music gossip but aims to provide the target audience with the latest hot gossip from teenage heartthrobs such as One Direction and Justin Bieber and exclusive fashion ideas. The cover price is £2.99 and it has a readership of 331,000 people 87% being girls and 15% being boys with an age range of 11-15.

The house style of the magazine has a bubble type font which is pink making it look sweet and colourful which definitely appeals to young teens. This then continues throughout making it recognisable and repetitive.  The picture on the front cover always has the current teenage pop sensation, and in this case it’s ‘district 3’. The colours are very consistent and stick to be bold on each monthly publication. The title ‘Top of the Pops’ is legendary and iconic as the show was a hit in the early 21^st century. The font is always very fun and funky addressing the latest shocking hot gossip.  The front cover is smothered in celebrities, quizzes and fashion ideas which immediately grab out to young teens. The facial expressions of the celebrities is always warm, smiley and fun. At the top of the magazine next to the significant ‘BBC’ logo there is always content of what will be in the magazine something exciting and new or perhaps a quiz. The colour scheme will always be subtle but highlight key parts of the magazine.  The BBC aim to create an exciting modern fresh and trendy approach to teenage girls.

The target audience is definitely aimed at teens and the socio economic group would be ABC1 with an age group of 11-15. The only problem facing categorising this is that we do not know how much of readers are in each category, for example the majority could be in C1 rather than spaced out into each category.

Investigation of two magazines currently on sale in Britain

 

Q magazine

The founders of Q magazine are Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, Bauer Media Group produce it and it was first published in October 1986 at this time it was originally called Cue to imply a musical reference ‘ready to play’ but got mistaken as a snooker magazine. In 2006 Q published a reader survey called ‘100 greatest songs ever’ which was won by Oasis. In late 2008 Q adapted its image, by using a smaller amount of text to create an increased focus on subjects other than music. This led to criticism from much of the Q readership, but is yet to be seen if this change in attitude would affect sales.

The magazine has a widespread review section, with new releases in music, reissues, music gatherings, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio and television reviews. It uses a system of star-ratings from one to five stars. It also accumulates a list of around eight albums, which it classes as ‘the best new releases of the last three months’

The majority of the readers are in the ABC1 area rather than C2DE and it is much more popular in the age range of 15-34 rather than 35+ and over 2 times more men read it than women. The issue with this information is we do not know whether the high popularity within the ABC1 comes from each one or maybe is just from C1 and with the age it could mainly be 15 year olds or maybe scattered all around that big age range. But what we can gather from this is that the typical reader is slightly higher up in social class but probably fairly young as it’s not as popular in 35+ which would imply the audience is mainly teenagers and young adults.

The house style of this magazine is fairly consistent throughout for example the heading/title is the same in every magazine, maybe some slight adaptions made but it is unnoticeable and the background sticks to quite a pale colour such as white or grey for most of the issues with a few exceptions being made for certain artists to fit their genre or the main topic of the issue. The colour and font of the sell lines and tag lines stick to reds, blacks and whites of quite a bold font but once again they sometimes change to fit the artist or new background etc.

Q represents women as sexual items and in some they look quite animalistic which implies they are dominated and sexualised. Whereas the men are shown to be quite fierce or dominant even by not showing any particular facial expression because their face takes up most of the cover but with the women their bodies are on display or at least shown slightly in the image. This would mean that for the audience the female audience admire and aspire for the women in the magazines but have a desire for the men. Whereas the male audience would have a sexual desire for the women and aspire/respect the men. For example: