Friday, 24 October 2014

Chosen Product

Glamour Magazine

I chose Glamour Magazine because it is one of my favourite magazine, I am a regular consumer and I am familiar with the audience which is why I believe our band could be marketed with this product.

Glamour Magazine is the most popular Fashion magazine in the UK and around the world as it varies between 90,000-11 MILLION readers in the countries below.



Age
The most common trend in age readers of Glamour according to Conde Nast is 18-19 year olds. The magazine is aimed at young females and even so males that have an interest in Fashion and Beauty. It is aimed at those who have a deep passion for fashion and beauty, the industry, the history, the current trends, celebrities etc. 



From these statistics from Conde Nast I have learn that there are just under 9 million readers that are aged 18-49, some employed, some married. They are mostly female readers as only 4% are male readers. This information has allowed me to learn that by using our band to include in this product would benefit the band in many ways. Our band is aimed near the same age range (16-25) with similar demographics so therefor it would make sense to combine these two products together to benefit each other.

The band audience is aimed for 16-25 year olds and that falls partly into the bracket of readers for Glamour Magazine.

Gender

Females have proven to be the most popular gender within this magazine. However, males seem to be the most popular gender for R&B music which is the genre of our magazine. With these combined, they will be extremely beneficial to both genders. However, I believe that the balance between gender who like fashion are balanced. There are not many fashion magazines for men, and I can understand why the percentage of male readers are so low - probably because they wouldn't really appreciate being seen reading Glamour as everyone knows that it is a woman's magazine. 

With our band consisting of two male members, Glamour is known to feature Male celebrities on the cover, especially ones that are new to the red carpet and I feel by featuring the two males of the group, and even all members, would really promote the band as young girls buy the magazine, the boys can get a female fan base just like One Direction does, which means the band will grow popular, they will be taken seriously and marketed well across the music and fashion industry. 

The audiences first impression of the band is a big deal, and that includes their appearance. By having them portrayed in a popular fashion magazine this will mean that Glamour obviously like them enough to have them represent their magazine.











Friday, 10 October 2014

Barry's Lesson - Friday -



CONSTRAINTS

Time
- Transport
- Time Zone (Abroad)
- Schedule
- Time Wasting

Personnel
- Working out how you're going to produce what you've been asked
- Availability
- Reliability 

Costs
- Production
-Shipping
-Cost of products
-Hiring people
-Cost of travelling
-Creating the product
-Studio
-Software updates
-Profit

Resources
- Costs of materials
- Availability of sources
- Ethically sourced
- Machinery
- Equipment 

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Rosie & Emmanuella's band - Identity and Planning

P R O F I L E

Band Name: The Rowland's
Members: 3
Music genre: R&B
Location: UK
Signed with: LADedicated

Band Member Number One

Name: Melody Peters
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Position: Lead Singer
Born: UK, London (1994) 6th of February
Appearance: Long brown hair, tanned, green eyes, 5ft 10
Musical Instruments: Guitar, Piano

Band Member Number Two

Name: Andre Simmons
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Position: DJ & Back up singer
Born: UK, Coventry (1995) 18th June
Appearance: Short curly dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, dark brown stubble, tanned, 6ft3
Music Instruments: Guitar, Piano, Drums

Band Number Three

Name: Jamie Locksford
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Position: Back up singer & Writer
Born: UK, Brighton (1995, 12th April)
Appearance: Spikey black hair, stubble, 6ft2, blue eyes, pale skinned
Musical Instruments: Drums

























Data Research on Music Genres- Rosie Kinsella & Emmanuella

MUSIC GENRE IN SALES

(Source: www.bpi.co.uk/facts-figures.aspx)

This is a chart from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) showing the number of album sales in 2013 by genre of music. It shows Rock being among the most popular for sales by 2013 selling a total of 33.8 million.

In comparison, "Statista" (The Statistics Portal) also hold statstics showing that rock was also the most popular selling genre of 2013:

Our category of music genre for our band project is R&B which is ranked in as the 5th popular genre of last year out of a total of 16 music genre.

































MUSIC GENRE & STATS WITHIN FESTIVALS

(Source: http://www.festivalinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/UKFA2013_SHOWGUIDE_MarketReport.pdf)

Here is an example of festival statistics. This particular graph is discussing the reasons as to why people actually go to festivals, showing the most popular reasons:






By having this type of data and being able to even get it from festival attenders in the first place, it allows the music industry and every company that is involved in festival events down to the ticket company holders, food, merchandise, accommodation, location and area etc to come up with improved solutions to better the experience of a festival.
For Example:







































Critical Approaches - Mind Map band planning - 16/09/14

Statistics

The most popular genre's of 2013:
(source: www.bpi.co.uk/facts-figures.aspx)


BPI represents the UK's recorded music industry, which one of the most exciting and thrilling music sectors in the world.