Plannnig of music magazine

My target audience will be teenagers and young adults who are interested in hip hop/ urban music, It will be suitable for both Male and females and more specifically the age group that the magazine will be aimed at are teenagers from the age of 16 to the age of 19. I have chosen the target audience like this as to create a wider Consumer base, and therefore the magazine will be bought and read by more people. Also one of the main reasons i have chosen these genres is because these are the genres of music that I am interested in and as the writer and designer I will then be able to further understand the types of articles and subjects that should be discussed within the magazine.

My magazine will be aimed at a more urban audience, but will be suitable also to any other people who are interested in hip hop & R&B music, to achieve the wider spread audience I will have to avoid making any references towards any specific social groups or status’ .

The magazine will be released on a monthly basis, this is so that the audience may get more excited about purchasing or reading the magazine because they have waited a whole month for the latest copy, it is also because the magazine is going to be aimed at an audience of teenagers who are interested in hip hop/urban music, these are usually people of lower working class and therefore will probably not have much money to spend on magazines, so the fact that it will only be released on a monthly basis means that they will have more time to gather the money, if that is the case.

The magazine will cost £2, this is because of the fact that the audience is going to be mainly lower working class peo0ple and teenagers, which will limit the amount of money they have to spend on luxuries, so prices any more than £2 may be out of their price range, also because it is going to be released monthly, the price can not be any less than £2 or there will be hardly any profit made.

The magazine is going to be a cross between the styles of a glossy magazine such as Q and another more basic magazine, such as ‘Jazzwise’, as I don’t want it to look like it is seeking for attention like some magazines such as ‘Ok’ and ‘Now’ but is till want it to be fairly colourful and appealing to the audience’ senses.