Diary Entry 3 - 14th February

This week, we were introduced into two new tasks; the inital ideas and audience research.
Inital ideas involved us thinking about how we could have our magazine in terms of the name, the style of front page, colours, how we would construct the double page spread etc. This was done on a A3 sheet which we would later scan into the computer. This is not the final decisions for our magazines, but it gave us a chance to see what we could do. This took only a lesson, to think about ideas and write them down. After that, we began to think about audience research. Our task was to research into what the target audience wants from the music magazine. This could be done in numerous ways such as a questionnaire, video interviews, focus groups, voice recordings etc. I chose to do a questionnaire involving my results to be displayed in a graph and a focus group, where I will show the group pictures of existing magazines in the similar genre and they are free to discuss amongst each other.
But primarily, once we were introduced to these tasks, we had the oppotunity to prepare the audience research or continue our analysis of magazines. The work that was not finished would needed to be completed over the half term.