I approached the research stage by looking a t a variety of music magazines from all genres so I could decide which genre I wanted to focus on. I annotated copies of real front covers to see the common features of music magazines. I also did research into target readers of the different genres of magazines. Once I had settled on a pop/Top of the Pops style magazine I researched more into this type of magazine. I looked in more detail at the target reader for this type of magazine and then using this formed the reader profile for my own magazine.