Font Ideas

Above are some of my ideas to use for fonts

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Development Questionairre

What type of music do you listen to ?

a) Indie

b) Hip Hop & R and B

c) Dance

d) Pop

How old are you ?

a) 10-15

b)16-21

c)22+

Male or Female?

a) Male

b) Female

How often do you read magazines?

a)Once a week

b)More than once a week

c)Once a month

d) Rarely

How much do you usually pay for magazines?

a) £1.00

b) £2.00

c) £3.00

d) £4.00

e) £5.00 or over

What would you expect to see in a music magazine?

a)Gig details

b)Band reviews

c)Album reviews

d)Festival Reviews

e)Posters

f) All of the above

Results

What type of music do you listen to ?

a) Indie-12

b) Hip Hop & R and B- 1

c) Dance-4

d)Pop-3

As you can see from the results above the most popular genre of music from the people i've asked is Indie. This is good because this is the genre of music im targeting .

How old are you ?

a) 10-15 -1

b)16-21-18

c)22+-1

I asked more people my age to complete the questionnaire because my target audience is of this age range.

Male or Female?

a) Male-10

b) Female-10

I asked the same amount of girls as I did boys, this was to ensure my results were fair.

How often do you read magazines?

a)Once a week-10

b)More than once a week-2

c)Once a month-3

d) Rarely-5

The results show that the most popular response was "once a week". This is good because my magazine would be on sale every week.

How much do you usually pay for magazines?

a) £1.00-1

b) £2.00-9

c) £3.00-5

d) £4.00-3

e) £5.00 or over-2

The results here are good because the majority of people pay around £2.00 for their magazines and this the price my magazine will be sold at.

What would you expect to see in a music magazine?

a)Gig details

b)Band reviews

c)Album reviews

d)Festival Reviews

e)Posters

f) All of the above-20

I am pleased with the results from this question because my article will contain all of the answers that were given.

Unique Selling Point

The target audience for my magazine will be for both men and women, aged 16-30, who are interested in indie and rock music. Circulation figures would be around 20,000 every 2 weeks and it would cost £2.50 to purchase.


Magazine name ideas


LSF- Inspired by the Kasabian song, LSF(Lost Souls Forever).
505- From the Arctic Monkeys album, Favourite Worst Nightmare.
Fast Fuse- Song by Kasabian which features on their album Empire.


To create my magazine I will use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Indesign. Also to make my magazine unique I will get fonts from websites such as www.dafont.com. I will use this website to create the title for my magazine.


I have researched into the sales figures of various magazines. The sales of indie magazines is 77,888 and rock magazines is 325,518. Showing that rock magazines sell more than indie. Therefore im going to try and incooperate both genres of music into my magazine.


Circulation Figures 


Below are the circulation figures for various music magazines in the UK. The data was collected in December 2009 and July 2009. The data shows that Classic Rock magazine is the most popular.

Classic Rock 70,323 (Dec 2009: 71,242, Jul 2009: 70,310) 12 month change +0.0%

Kerrang! 44,013 (Dec 2009: 41,125, Jul 2009: 43,253) 12 month change +1.8%

Metal Hammer 44,034 (Dec 2009: 41,777, Jul 2009: 46,004) 12 month change -4.3%

Mojo 91,678 (Dec 2009: 98,484, Jul 2009: 97,722) 12 month change -6.2%

NME 33,875 (Dec 2009: 38,846, Jul 2009: 40,984) 12 month change -17.3%

Q 89,450 (Dec 2009: 94,811, Jul 2009: 100,172) 12 month change -10.7%

Uncut 74,067 (Dec 2009: 75,518, Jul 2009: 76,526) 12 month change -3.2%

Popular Indie Bands

Bombay Bicycle Club

Bombay Bicycle Club are a four member band from Crouch End, London. Since they formed in 2005 they have had much success in the music industry. They have released 2 albums, their first album, "I had the blues but I shook them loose" was released in 2009 but only 46 in the album charts. In 2010 they released their latest album, "Flaws" which got to number 8 in the album chart. They have also played at the Leeds and Reading festival and the 2010 Itunes festival.

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys have been one of the most popular indie bands in the UK since the release of their first album, " Whatever people say I am, thats what I'm not" in 2006. The album was the fastest selling debut album in UK music history. Since their debut success they have released 2 more albums , " Favourite worst nightmare" and "Humbug". Which have have major success with. Favourite worst nightmare got number 1 in the album charts just like the debut album.

Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club are the latest Indie band to release and album. 3 years after the band formed, they released their first album, "Tourist history" in 2010. They have had much success  and their songs have featured on games such as Fifa 11. In the UK their album reached 46 in the charts.