This is my research on 5 music magazines which all have various similarities and differences. When i create my magazine front cover, I will be using these magazines techniques as they are the top sellers. For example 'Q' and 'XXL' both have the masthead in the top left corner. This is clearly a succesful technique. All the magazines have a big, bold and red title which stands out to their target audiences. This engages the reader in a positive way as it catches their eyes. Read is clearly a successful colour on music magazine front covers and I will take this into account when making my magazine in the near future. 'Beatz', 'XXL' and 'Vibe' all focus on the genres Hip-Hop and Rap. This has also helped me to understand what makes a magazine appealing and not so appealing. All these magazines have some differences which make them unique from one another. They must be unique in order to survive in the music magazine industry as it is tough market to sustain in. I will have to make sure that I do not copy any ideas and remain different from all others. This will help me to win over my competitors.

This is my Word Cloud on the music magazines and genres that I researched. Making this Wordle has helped me to gain an understanding of how big the market is in the music magazine industry. I have realised that each music magazine is categorised by a genre or sub-genre. Making this task on Wordle will help me in the future because it is an easy, fun and representable way to produce information of titles, for example the names of some music magazines around the world. They are presented in a more engaging way than in a list. When making my magazine I will know which genre to choose and which magazines are my competitors.

This is my powerpoint about the music magazine 'Vibe' - looking at Institution, Genre, Audience and Representation. It is analysing the music industry. In making this powerpoint, I have learnt the four keys ways of consuming media, Institution, Representation, Audience and Genre. I have made these four things relevent to a media text and here it is the music magazine 'Vibe'. The Institution is about the publisher and the background history to them and the magazine. The Audience is about the target audience of the magazine, who is reads the magazine? What is the age range and gender? In addition to this, where you can buy the magazine (Amazon) and in which city it is based (New York City). The Representation is about how the magazine is presented. What they do to appeal to their audience. Finally the Genre is about where it lies in the music industry. For example 'Vibe' is a Hip-Hop and R'n'B music magazine. This task has helped me know what I need to do before making the magazine myself. I will need to apply these four things to my magazine before I make it.

This is my industry context video based on information about the magazine 'Four Four Two'. After researching about the magazine, I created a video blog about it. This task has helped me to know what background information goes into the popular magazines around the world. This research has also helped me to know information about magazines, which I did not no before. For example what the publishers jobs are and who they are. Here the publisher is Haymarket and they also publish for other magazines as well as 'Four Four Two'. This information will hopefully prove to be useful when creating my own magazine as I know what styles the different publishers like to publish. Haymarket publishes quite a lot of sports related magazines. In addition to this I am know aware of how to appeal to the target audience and analysing 'Four Four Two' has helped me to notice the reasons why so many well known people in football subscribe to it. When making my magazine, I will aim to get DJ's and other well known electronic dance music artists to be fans of my music magazine.