Purpose of a music magazine

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.

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.

Bonus features for other stories which could appeal to the reader

What is popular right now. (new arctic monkeys album – people will be interested)

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’

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.