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2 words, Heavy and Metal, Normally around 100 acts play. And they are the very best of metal and rock. The main acts this year about going to be Metallica, Slipknot, Rage against the machine and System of a down. Other bands that are expected to play but not confirmed yet are Escape the Fate, Korn, HIM and many more. If you are attending you will want to look out for the upcoming band falling in reverse. The concert takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire and lasts for 3 days from Friday to Sunday. Tickets can be bought off the official Download website.

This year the main act to see is Rage against the machine who reached the top of the Christmas charts in 2009 with the song “Killing in the name of” beating Joe McElderry the Xfactor winner by 50,000 copies. They are also doing a free concert at Finsbury Park on Sunday 6 June to thank people for getting them to number one.

The concert last over 5 nights. The campsite opens on a Wednesday and closes on a Monday, and the arena opens on Friday. They are very strict on rouge camping around the time of the festival anyone found on private property can be arrested by the police. There is parking at the camp site. If you have a weekend ticket you get a wristband so that it is easier to pass in and out of the concert.

The campsites have :

• Toilets
• Parking
• ATM machines
• Café
• Off sales bar and catering units
• Full secure with fences, Security guards, first aid provision and an information centre.

In previous years the tickets have had codes on them to download some tracks from the bands that are playing at the festival. The first download festival was held in 2003 there headliners were Iron maiden and Limp Bizkit but limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by audioslave.

Mind map of the rock Genre

Target reader profiles and focus group

In the focus group we found out that not many people buy magazines and that if they like the magazine they would usually subscribe to it. We also found out that not as many people buy music as there is people downloading it illegally. The main cause of people downloading music is that they don’t have money to spend on buying the albums.

Jeff
Age 17
Location: Newcastle
Interests: Going out with friends, Films
Unemployed
Tall
Medium length Brown Hair


Tom
Age 20
Location: Chelmsford
Interests: Playing Video Games, Socializing
Short
Long Blue Hair

Paul
Age 25
Location: London
Interests: Socializing, Music
Self-Employed
Short
Black Long hair

Research into specific magazines/ potential competition

I researched two other magazines NME and Q I found out that NME is released weekly and is £2.30 and has around 66 pages. Q is monthly and has 100pages and cost £3.90. I used this information to decide how many pages a fortnightly magazine would be and the price of it. Q sells approx 130,000 a month and NME sells approx 60,000 Every Week.

The Press Complaints Commission

I will make sure I will abide by The press complaints commission code. I will make sure that I have consent from the models to take pictures. Make sure everything I publish is accurate.

What goes into a music magazine – typical features in any music magazine?

The typical features of any music magazine are about the upcoming bands, reviews on new albums that have been released. Usually an interview with a band. They have a lot of adverts in a magazine usually 1/3rd of the magazine is adverts. The most typical feature is reviews on bands and Albums.

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