2. Purpose of a music magazine
• A music magazine is there for the readers to
be updated on a specific genre of music.
Upcoming gigs, interviews with musicians and
everything music based. So it is informing
them on all things that genre. These
magazines aren’t free so they have to
persuade the audience to buy their magazine
with persuasive language, deals and colour.
3. Magazine name
– bold, short
and memorable
Exclusive – aim
to attract
audience and
sell it to them
as it is a world
exclusive
Good looking young
people on the front of
the magazine attracts
readers of attracts a
specific target
audience.
What is popular right
now. (new arctic
monkeys album –
people will be
interested)
Bonus features for other stories
which could appeal to the reader
4. The music magazine ‘NME’ is a popular
magazine for the younger generation. The
layout of its front cover represents their
target audience as it’s got jagged writing
and ‘Alex Turner’ on the front who is a
popular artist to the young teenage
generation.
With a bold headline and in font that looks
as if it has been scribbled down is there to
lure students who are in the stage of
education, therefore the font will appeal to
them. The front page looks very cluttered
with lots of information. This makes it look
interesting and worth the money.
Considering the target audience wont have
much money.
The list down the left side is artists from the
same genre of music. So that if the main
headline doesn’t appeal, there are other
artists who are involved within the ‘record
that changed my life’
5.
6. The double page spread for a music magazine
(previous slide) is very tightly compact to contain as
much information as possible on one of the most vital
pages. A catchy headline is crucial ‘BITTEN BY THE
BUGG’ - alliteration does this as it is a good use of
play on words since the story is on Jake Bugg. The
finer details of the layout make it look more
professional and fitting to the target audience as it
looks slightly ‘rough around the edges’. In the actual
article, there’s a quotation in larger font to entice the
reader with a quirky quote about Jake Bugg. The
colour scheme is light green, black and white which
are washed out, so it doesn’t distract the main text.
