Re-draft: Planning construction

I have chosen to re-construct this coursework a year later in order to improve on it, as I feel that I am now more experienced when it comes to the software used and that I will be able to add more to my music magazine in order to make it more successful. As this years A2 Coursework allowed me to be more experimental and creative and I would like to expand on my AS work in this way.

I have started re-doing this peice of coursework by looking over recent Real Media Artefacts for inspiration. For example looking at recent editions of MOJO Music Magazine, as well as NME and Q. When looking at the Front Cover and Double page spreads of these magazine, I have noticed it is unusual for any of them to feature a Female Artist as their main focal point. As I have looked through the Archive on the existing magazines website's and only found one edition which features a woman as the main focal point on the front cover.
  
I find this really interesting, as it means there is a niche market which I could use in order to attract my target audience. My Music magazine is likely to be more effective if I am doing something different to the existing real Media Artefacts, as it will make my Music magazine stand out from the competition.
Before I plan on constructing my Music magazine using a Female Artist I need to go back to my target audience. As I must ensure that my audience would not be put off from buying the magazine if the main Artist featured was a woman. I have therefore gone back to the 30 people I asked to answer my questionnaire and asked them one simle question in order to get a reliable answer that will tell me how they feel about the sex of the artist.

 

Overall, the results showed that my Target Audience were not largely affected by the sex on the front cover of a Music Magazine which seems unusal as many existing Real Media Artefacts seem to resist putting females on the their front cover. I have therefore decided due to the fact that my Target Audience are not put off by a Female artist that I will alter my front cover and double page spread and feature a new up and coming female artist instead of the images of males that I had used before.