Research - Wide:

Artist research:

Genre research:

Below you can see my genre research for acoustic music. There wasn't much information available online though because I really like acoustic music - I wanted to carry it out and present it as it is the genre I would like to do for my magazine. 

Research rationale:

I intend to conduct my research at school due to the fact that I have access to the age range which I'm aiming my magazine at, which is 13-19 year old's. I will carry out a survey on surveymonkey in hopes to see what draws people into a magazine and what draws people into a magazine and what they'd like to see on the front cover of a magazine. This research will be quantitative as I'll be able to generate graphs - being able to compare my answers more easily.

As for my audience research, I'll be conducting qualitative research with a focus group. This will enable me to have thorough answers as oppose to simple answers, helping me explore the conventions of a music magazine with them so I can create a magazine worth buying. We will go through different magazine covers to see what is more pleasing to the eye and things that make a magazine stand out. By doing this, I'll have direct feedback from my target audience so it's ideal to take the opportunity to do this as it will help my magazine production a lot.

Typography:
Below is my typography that I done using different mastheads from different magazines, I decided to present this on glogster to make it look slightly different. 

My magazine deconstruction:



Above, I have presented a magazine deconstruction of the same magazine but two different covers, highlighting the similarities and differences of them.

Music magazine moodboards:

Here, you can see that i have presented 4 different moodboards of different magazines, showing what they do and how the consumer benefits from them when it comes to music and news.

My initial feelings: