Researching Genre

What is Genre?

• Genre is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content.

Rock & Roll Genre

• I have decided to do a rock and roll genre magazine. Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music.

Rock Music Magazines

• Rock magazines use dark and gloomy colours as it relates to the hard heavy rock music. For Rock magazines there is quite a large range of target audiences, as it isn’t just aimed at teenagers but also middle aged people as well and mainly males. Most rock magazines are very busy on the front covers with coverlines and images. The font is usually quite big and bold, sometimes it might also be ‘scratchy’. Also nearly all of the titles are in capital letters. The person on the cover always has a ‘rock & roll’ style. For example they’re dressed in dark clothes, have coloured hair or have lots a tattoos.

Rock & Roll Magazines examples

Scratchy

Fonts

Big and bold

mastheads

Dark

Background

s

Busy front

covers

Sky lines

Main sell

lines

Bar

codes

Summary Of a Chosen Genre

• I need to make my cover & contents page look like a rock music magazine. I am going to do this by taking a main picture of someone who has an appearance of a rock person. Also I need to choose a darker background, to make it look more gloomy. The font is going to be big and bold. However, for the main sell lines I am going to use a smaller and a more scratchy font. Overall, the cover will need to look quite busy. For the contents page I am going to use a lighter background and put few images down the side. It will also need to look busy and there can’t be any empty spaces.