RESEARCH: Questionnaire

Questionnaire:

List three genres you would like to read about in a music magazine:
1.
2.
3.

What ratio of Images : Text would you prefer?
50:50
40:60
20:80
30:70

What is you age group?
13-15
16-18
19-21
22-40
40+

Would you prefer to read about upcoming new artists or recent mainstream artists?
NEW and upcoming
Mainstream

What catches you eyes more in a magazine?
The bright colours
Professional images
Clip art
The amount of text
Advertisements
Freebies

What magazines do you usually read?
Heat
Vogue
NME
Nuts
442
Loaded
Take a break
Other_____________
None

What is the most you’d be willing to pay for a Music Magazine?
50p - £1.50
£2.00 - £3.00
£4.00 - £5.00
Other____________

Would you like to read about talent from around the world or just UK based artists? 

UK
Worldwide

How often do you read a magazine?
Always
Often
Hardly
Never

Do you receive any money?
I work
Weekly income from EMA
Parents


Other (Please Specify)_______

I asked 16-18 year olds the above questions. From this questionnaire I found that the genres of magazines that most students in the sixth form would like to read are: RnB, Indie and Rap music. Also, the ratio of images to text they would prefer is 60:40. I asked a few of the students why and they said that it is not very interesting to open a page in a magazine just full of words and they like to read magazines to read and look at and not for study. Most of the people I asked would prefer to read about upcoming new artists rather than recent mainstream artists which is why I wrote my interview in my double page spread about a 'new artist' not worldwide, but in the UK mainly.

I also found people find bright colours and professional images the most eye-catching in a magazine. So for my front page, I have included bright colours and professional images. I Asked a balance of boys and girls and the results of the magazines most read were: Heat and NME. I also asked about price, the results found that people would be willing to spend an average of £2.00 - £3.00 on a magazine as they will only read it once and will not keep it forever so anymore money seems unnessasary. The average income of these students was from EMA so they wouldnt have much money to spend on a magazine (unlike the students with jobs).

RESEARCH: Magazine Publishers Table

Magazine	Publisher	Details
Kerrang	Bauer	Revenue: turnover: €1.79 billion. (2006) They are German and based in Hamburg. Their brands include Women’s weekly, TV listings and they own 4music, smash hits TV and kiss TV. They also distribute magazines such as Closer, GRAZIA, Mojo and Empire. They also distribute motoring magazines, fishing, driving gardening and home magazines. Only a few of their magazines are music based. However, they publish a wide range of different magazines for everybody. They have offices based in 16 countries worldwide.
Smash Hits!	EMAP	Revenue: £1.154 billion (2006). They are British and their headquarters are in London. It has 20 magazines including: nursing times, retail week and health service international. Smash hits had its final issue in 2006. The company also distribute magazines such as retail week, GLEE, Media Festival and nursing times. They do not distribute a wide range of music magazines and a lot of their magazines are not sold in the UK.
NME	IPC	IPC are based in the UK with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies a year. They publish women’s weekly magazines such as ‘Look’ and music magazines (NME) and also ‘Loaded’. They also publish Marie Claire, TV Times, Amaetuer Photographers and also a lot of Cycling and sporting magazines. They distribute a lot of gossip and fashion magazines for women and not such a wide range of music magazines.
Vibe	InterMedia Partners	Total assets: $1 Billion. InterMedia Partners was founded in 2005 where they took over Vibe magazine. The firms most noticeable investments include: Universal sports, WAPA-TV and InterMedia Outdoors.
XXL	Harris Publications	They are located in New York and publish over 75 titles including: Juicy, XXL, Celebrity hairstyles and men’s workout etc. They also published some comics when the company first took off.
Mixmag	Disco Mix club – the DJ mail out service.	Mixmag began in 1983. DMC is a DJ remix service and began as a radio show in 1981. Not long after this they published the first Mixmag issue.

How is power represented in the short clip of ‘Life on Mars’?

The scene of the short clip opens in the office with a man (Sam) and a woman (Mia) talking about the case they are working on. The first shot we see used is a shot/reverse shot which shows the intensity of their relationship and the work-place having an effect on them. During the scene in the office, both Sam and Mia have equal amount of time on camera this shows that neither of them is more powerful than the other as they both get equal attention from the camera which means equal attention from the audience.  

However, he mentions that he wants to take her off this particular case and he does have the authority to do so which shows in the work-place he does actually have more power than her, but not necessarily in their relationship.  After they talk about this, there is an eye-line match of the computer he is working on which could suggest how distracted by this case he is from his relationship.

This scene then ends and then there is an ellipsis. We go a few hours in time. We see that Sam is still in the office making a cup of coffee. Also, the ambiance has changed in this time period. His phone then rings and it is Mia, she goes against what he said about taking her off the case, and says she has gone to investigate more herself. This shows her power because of her rebelling against what he said. He is then powerless to help her as he is in a safe place and she is in danger. He cannot do anything at this moment to rescue her.

Then there is a cut-away, and Sam pulls up in his nice car into a council estate full of trouble and crime. He looks out of place and doesn’t belong there. He gets to the scene of the crime where there are uniformed officers and him in his suit; this shows his authority yet again.  He is in the centre of the shot with people in the background pushed to the side, which also shows his authority.

He then gets to the swing in the children’s play-park where he sees a bloody women’s shirt on a swing. We automatically assume it is Mia’s. This is a good example of Juxtapositioning as a playground is a safe place and this was the scene of the crime.

Upstairs Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It is set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First World War, and Inter-War Belgravia in London, that depicted the lives of the servants "downstairs" and their supieriors "upstairs". Immediatly we know that there are two very different seperate classes in this TV drama and it becomes alot clearer when we watch it.