The Music Industry

    The aims of this Factsheet are to:
- Investigate how the music industry is structured
- Define the differenes between major and independent music organisations
- Examine the distribution and marketing practices used by music institutions to promote recording artists
- Introduce and apply theoretical concepts to the music industry

The music industry is a global business that generates profit by selling musical recordings in both physical and digital formats to media audiences.
The music industry is a complex and competitive business and record companies and labels are continually devising new ways of attracting audiences to consume their products.

The term music industry refers to all the businesses that are responsible for the creation and the marketing of music. 

The diagram below highlights the various roles undertaken by record labels in the marketing and production of music.

                                                                          Record Labels

Scouting for             Financing                         Packaging &                        Marketing

New Artists            Recordings                       Distribution                          Promotion & Puplicity

Definition

Record Company: Is the company or organisation responsible for all the record labels inside the organisation. Record companies create new labels to reflect the varied genres of artists they represent. The creation of different record labels allows them to target their prokected markets accurately while still controlling the overall running of the business. 

Record Label: Is a company that runs within a bigger organisation. For example, Polydor Records is a large record label created and financed by Universal Music. Although a functioning business in their own right all the profits made by Polydor will ultimately go back into Universal Music.

Evaluation of the preliminary exercise

My conceived original idea was actual a school magazine about a revolt in the school. But I find that was a little bit to crazy, so I have take the story about the completion who will be are the next headmaster. To the first it will be easy to write what happened and number 2, I got no idea what will be happened when I take my first idea. By the competition I got more ideas and I have know what I can writing.

On the school front magazines it is very important that the school emblem stand of the front cover.
just as important are the price label, headline barcode etc. I have take as well as all importents stuffs from real magazines of my school magazines.
I have now more experience about media production. For example I now how I make front magazines and how many times that cost to sales a front magazines cover with content page. For the first time i must think on what i take for a idea. After them i tryed to impliment my idea. I begin with the design until the emblem and price tags. All done i printet the magazine front cover and Content page out.

Questions:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a school magazine?



How effective is the front page of your magazine in focusing on the ethos of the school?
My school front cover is not very noticeable. It's looked how a normal school magazine. No conspicuous colours or something other things.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I have different target audience. The one half wants have more tach and trach while the other half wants more  political thopics in the magazine.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I have actuel use just power point and copy the stuff after them i was done, in the normal microsoft office word to printed out my magazines front cover.

Front Cover Page, Content Page and Feedback from my target audience

This is my front magazines with contents page about a story where will somebody get the new headmaster and any other information. On the front magazines we see all what is of a normal front magazine. Dates, Button from the school, prize, barcode, headline etc.

I got a focus audience from my school magazines and I’ve asking  what there thought about my first draft:

Connor said that the front cover looks good, but of the contents page they can't see sarah of the little picture with chris.

Chris like the front cover with the shebbear emblem and prize label. But he said that i have write wrong the one sentence: "What did he will promise?"

Sarah said the she thinked it's weird that the background from the front cover is whit and from the Contents page black. 

(I know, the picture is make from me very bad)

Flat Plan

By my new Project i gotta must be make a scratch page, who will help me to create a good Shebbear Magazin. And here is it: 

(I know, my draw skills are very bad)