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Research Methods

Types of Research:

To attain  a successful Music Magazine, you will need different types of research. This will help you know what people want to see your magazine to see what they find most interesting. There are two main types of research. These types of research are Qualitative research and Quantitative research.

Qualitative:

• To gain an understanding of underlying reasons and motivations
• To provide insights into the setting of a problem, generating ideas and/or hypotheses for later quantitative research
• To uncover prevalent trends in thought and opinion

Quantitative: 

• To quantify data and generalise results from a sample to the population of interest
• To measure the incidence of various views and opinions in a chosen sample
• Sometimes followed by qualitative research which is used to explore some findings further

Primary data:

This is data being collected or obtained from a first hand experience. It can be received first hand. This can be done through an interview, also when a person collecting the data will talk in person to the respondent.Secondary data:

This is data referring to data collected from research or obtained from another party. It can be obtained from past surveys and questionnaires.

About Music Magazines

Music Magazine

A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoot, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a cover mount with recorded music.

The main music magazines around the globe are, NME Rolling Stone, Q and Mojo. The main reason for this is that they have been going for so long, NME has been around for about 60 years.

Melody Maker was first published in 1926 for musicians. It's 1928 "honours list" is regarded as the U.K 's first music chart. the final issue of the magazine was published in december 2000 as it was merged into long-standing rival and IPC Media sister publication New Musical Express.

Genres:

. Rock

. House

. R&B

. Hip Hop 

. Electro

. Classical

Popular Music Magazines:

Music magazines have been publishing for over a century now. One of the best and well known magazines of all time is NME. Other popular music magazines within the UK include Kerrang, MOJO, Q. Major music magazines in the United States include Vibe, Rolling Stone and Class. 


The Future of Music Magazines:

Music magazines don't have much future, With new technology being introduced such as phone apps people are able to retrieve the same information for free  or at a small expence. They do not really have much more of a future and should put their sales into applications with pay monthly subscriptions. However in some cases people prefer the 'hard copy' and are usually a older genre who don't have a smart phone.

What Audience do the Music Magazines relate to ?

Most Music Magazines dedicate themselves around Rock and R&B like NME. The target audience  NME are aimed at is the younger generation of adults. through looking at the cover we see allot of young bands, The cover also shows a lot about the content of the magazine and what the magazine will be about. By showing more well known younger artists on the front cover, the larger the audience it will attract to the product.

Introduction Blog

Hello & Welcome to my Blog !

As a part of my AS Media Study A-Level i will have to keep a blog, in this blog you will find:

• My planning throughout the course
• My evaluation
• My research, planning and evaluation throughout the year.

To support the research i will provide videos and images in my blogs. Also, I have purchased specific music magazines that focuses on my chosen music genre. This is to get a better understanding of the music magazines layout.
The types of music genre I have chosen to study is house/electro music. Types of magazines associated with the genre i have chose are the likes of mixmag and house magazine. Each week I will upload one or more blog informing you of my progress.

About me:
I am currently studying A-Level Media, Business and English Literature. i have chosen these i i think not only i will perform best in these but lead to my ideal jobs.
My current interests are playing hockey of a weekend and socialising with my friends, i also like to watch films and listen to music.
My preferred music to listen to is House/Electro music, DJs such as Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Steve Angello, Tiesto and many more. i also like to watch them live at concert.