Risk Assessment

Magazine Proposal HW

D&B

Objective:

D&B's objectives are fairly simple but at the same time hard to achieve, D&B magazines what to be the worlds biggest Drum and Bass magazine we want to start of small and want it to become known to the younger generation around London, eventually spreading across England and then hopefully globally and make Drum and Bass one of the more popular music genres.

Concept:

D&B is essentially a drum and bass magazine that we want to produce to show what's happening in the world of Drum and Bass. D&B is not the official name of the magazine and is something I would like to change if given better suggestions. Drum and Bass is currently very much becoming more recognised to the younger generation at the moment and there isn't hardly any magazines on it, after research on the amount of magazines with the genre of Drum and Bass and I could only find one. As a young person myself and going out with friends on the weekend this is the music that gets played and now is very popular for teenagers and young adults at the moment. We want the magazine to be distributed at the beginning of every month rather than weekly this is so we can fill the magazine up with lots of information each month with interviews from the current biggest Drum and Bass stars and the upcoming stars of the genre. The magazines would be on sale in stores for the price of £10 whilst we know it's quite pricey it's a months worth of information and will have posters and other freebies inside or you can buy a yearly subscription for £100 which means it would be cheaper than buying it monthly as these will be our loyal customers. We will have a Spotify account for our customers to subscribe to where we will have a playlist of the newest and best Drum and Bass hits.

The magazine would also receive funds from advertisements, Drum and Bass advertisement would get priority over any other advertisements e.g. event tickets.

Target Audience:

Primarily the magazine will be aimed at people who are currently in to Drum and Bass and want to read about upcoming and current artists the target audience based on age is 16-24 as that is the group of people the genre appeals to more than anyone else.

The second audience the magazine will be aimed at is an audience at any age who is looking for a new genre of music especially if anyone is looking to become a DJ as this genre of music is currently getting jobs at parties and raves.

The third audience the magazine will be aimed at is people who are already fans of dubstep and jungle but don't or haven't listened to Drum and Bass as they are very similar genre of music and they would be new customers to the business.


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Unit 3- Current music industry in North London

Venues:

• Koko is a venue in Camden that have live music performances, mainly they show rap and grime but they show a bit of everything here is a link where you can see who is performing there: http://www.koko.uk.com/listings?date_filter[value][year]=2017&date_filter[value][month]=5&date_filter[value][day]=1
• Roundhouse is also a venue in Camden they have performances there every week and have their own festival for rising stars, Roundhouse has many genres of music to choose from from soul to urban to dance music, they also have big names performing there such as Chainsmokers and Lukas Graham: http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2017/roundhouse-rising-festival-2017/
• The Elmhurst pub is a venue in Tottenham 

Media Regulators

BBFC- The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.

Cinema

The British Board of Film Censors was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body to bring a degree of uniformity to the classification of film nationally. Statutory powers on film remain with the local councils, which may overrule any of the BBFC’s decisions, passing films we reject, banning films we have passed, and even waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing jurisdiction.
Video

In 1984 Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This act stated that, subject to certain exemptions, video recordings offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the Secretary of State. The President and Vice Presidents of the BBFC were so designated, and charged with applying the new test of ‘suitability for viewing in the home’. At this point the Board’s title was changed to the British Board of Film Classification to reflect the fact that classification plays a far larger part in the BBFC’s work than censorship.
Finances

The BBFC is a not for profit organisation, and its fees are adjusted only to cover its costs. In order to preserve its independence, the BBFC never receives subsidies from either the film industry or the government. Its income is solely from the fees it charges for its services, calculated by measuring the running time of films or DVDs submitted for classification. The BBFC consults the Department of Culture, Media and Sport before making any changes to its fees.