Here is a short survey I conducted to understand what my audience expected from music magazines and what they thought would work best when creating my music magazine


The first question I asked was centred around the main image, I wanted to see what people expected from the genre and whether it conformed to stereotypes of the genre In this case it did as both respondents thought it was appropriate for a male model to appear on my cover however I decided to reach out to my target audience I would use a female and challenge myself to make a good rock magazine featuring a female model.Although it is a male dominated genre over the last couple of years female break out artists have started to come through and bring change to the genre.
I then asked about mise-en-scene as this is a vital aspect for successful advertising especially in the music industry. From my own personal research I realised that mise-en-scene is very exaggerated and bold in this genre  which is why I decided to listen to the views of my respondents by using a leather jacket, intense lighting contrasts, dark and vibrant/heavy make-up to set the scene for the genre.
I agreed with the initial shot for the magazine being torso and above so that I could intensify the models body language and gestures whilst having enough space to fit in sell lines and other information. I though the cost for the magazine was suitable from my research and the contents of the magazine, the features I wanted to include were charts for the genre and one on one interviews as from my research buyers are usually drawn in by up to date reviews on artists and upcoming events.
I conformed to the colour schemes of the rock genre magazine by using black red and hints of white as I thought they worked best and agreed with my audience.