Music magazine presentation

MUSIC MAGAZINE

PRESENTATION

1. Who do you think the core target audience is for this products? Give example to support your ideas.

Men and woman that are interested in music, ages around 21 + as its quite sophisticated but yet still urban. I’d say its not a magazine for teenagers, it’s for more mature people that are interested in music.

2. What information can you learn about the lifestyle profile/ interests of the core target audience from the front cover. Give examples to support your ideas From looking at this magazine I can tell that the targeted audience is people that tend to like a wide variety of music, and people that want to know who to see live and what the best albums are. They are also people who are interested reading about other peoples taste in music by having celebrity interviews, so people that are interested in the artists as well as the music.

3. What music magazine genre codes and conventions can you identify?

The magazine genre codes and conventions that you can identify are that Madonna is on the front cover; she is reasonably old and her

music will appeal to mature women and not teenagers, so you can tell that the magazine is aimed at a more mature audience.

The way Madonna is posing by looking over her shoulder makes it look more sophisticated and edgy. Madonna would appeal to women, so also on the front cover there are cover stories on the Rolling Stones, Artic Monkeys, and interviews by the Kaiser Chiefs so the magazine has a

variety of different types of artists shown that will appeal to both men and women who are interested in pop, rock, indie etc.

4. What elements of the house style can you identify.

The colours used on the front cover are red, white and black, this is affective because they are simple and sophisticated colours individually and when there all put together it make the front cover look more edgy

but without it being other the top.

Music genre conventionsThe genre of this magazine is indie rock, you can see this By looking at the front cover as The Wombats are anIndie rock band, and all the other bands mentioned onthe cover page are also indie rock bands.

Music artists featured and the audience They appeal toThe band on the front cover of this magazine areThe Wombats, they are an indie band that would Appeal to a younger audience from ages 15+That are interest in indie or mild rock music like the vaccines, one night only etc.Other artists that are mentioned are Panic at the disco, Blur and muse, this shows that this magazine would appeal To people that are more interested in indie, rock bands as They are the key artists that are shown on the front cover of this Magazine. The ages of the target audience could as young as 15, and as mature as 30 as each of these bands appeal to different ages.

Similarities and differences between

the mise-en-scene

Both these front covers are different in ways and similar in others. The layout of both magazines are similar as they are both organized,

but the differences are that Q magazines target audience is a lot more mature than NME so the style of the magazine is formal and

sophisticated where as NME is more informal as it appeals to a younger target audience.

The colours used on the front cover of Q are red, black and white which makes the magazine look sophisticated but still urban, this is

different to the colours use on NME as they use larger variety of colours including bright yellow and blue, this makes the front cover

look more chaotic and it stands out a lot more.

Layout and style of language

The style of this magazine is informal, and would appeal to younger music lovers as the colours use are bright yellow, blue, red, black and

white so the magazine is quite in your face their for its more appropriate for younger people. The layout is organized but by adding

all the bright colours it makes the magazine look more chaotic. The language is informal as the magazine is aimed at younger people so it

needs to attract them as a reader.

What overall techniques are used to make you read the complete magazine?

The magazine uses Buzz words like PLUS to sell the magazine to readers as they think they get more for there money. On the front cover it says ‘the first interview’, this attracts the reader because they think there reading the first exclusive interview

so again they feel like there getting more for their money.

Mode of address

The mode of address for this magazine is informal as the target audience is teenagers so they would prefer to read a magazine

that has less formal language.

Special features and articles in both editions

Both magazines are similar in what they choose to write articles on as these are music magazine they write about the best albums and although the genre of the magazines aren't

the same they are similar as they both write exclusive interviews and are not gossip magazines.