INTRODUCTORY TASK

What is a music magazine?

This is a coloured booklet

that is designed to

entertain and inform a

niche audience.

What content

(text/copy/writing/articles/stories)

would you expect to find in a

music magazine?You would expect to find interviews with

artists that have new single/releases etc, tour dates, from artists related to the specific

genre also reviews from critics, in addition to this top albums of the week with availability

to download playlists, furthermore other

pages include new technology, gossip adverts from other products.

INTRODUCTORY TASK

Identify general characteristics / features that you would expect to

find in all music magazines?

Plenty of colour, captions, large images, artist

information, posters, freebies and competitions

, film reviews, clothing sites and puzzles

What images would you

expect to find in a music

magazine?You would expect to find images

from the artists’ live

performances, moreover pictures

of the artist with a background that

relates to their music, added to

that instruments that relate to

the genre of the magazine

and also pictures of new

releases of albums covers.

Features and

characteristics they all

have.-Masthead-Cover lines

-Date-Barcode -Colour

-Main Images of artists -Rule of thirds

These characteristics are very important as they are

conventional and feature on all magazines.

Differences between the magazines are a range in close

up and medium shots you are able to see expression but on the other hand fashion for example ‘Q’ and ‘Billboard’ are close ups.

Some cover lines are across the image to stand out, such

as ‘NME’ and ‘Top of the Pops’ are very colourful and eye catching whereas ‘Q’ and

‘Billboard’ are very formal and consistent to their specific

house style.

This is the NME magazine, which

is based around the Indie/Rock

/pop genre. Examples that

support this statement, are the

artists featured in the magazine

such ‘Kate Nash and ‘Jack

Penate.’

In addition to this the cover lines

are very clear about what is

going to be displayed to the

target audience, for instance

‘NME Rock Riot’.

The target audience for this

magazine in my opinion would

be aged 17-30 boy and men with

knowledge of the variety of

different genres featured in the

magazine.