examples of music magazines!

Before starting producing my magazine i am going to look at other music magazines for ideas.

These two magazines are good examples of what i should think about when producing my own magazine as they both apeal to their audience which is young people who are interested in music. The genre of this magazine 'Rollingstone' is pop music as it has pop artists on both covers. Girls are most likely to buy the second example because it has Zac efrom on it and the main story is about Zac Efron. When i start to produce my own magazine i need to

think about who would buy my magazine and why because this would then help me think of what main story to write about and the image itself. The image on the front of the cover is important because it tells the audience what is in the magazine and has to apeal to the audeince, if the magazine was for a certain streotype like 'girly girl' then it would most likely have an image of a pop group or a male artist just like the second example has. The postioning of the image is important also, alot of magazines now have the model over the top of the name of the magazine, usually well known magazines do this such as 'rollingstones'.

These two music magazines are totally different to the ones above as they are are layed out differently especially the second example. These magazines apeal to people who enjoy listening and reading about rock music. We know this as soon as we look at the image as they both have a male artist singing and playing an electric gutiar. When producing my magazine cover aswell as thinking about the postioning of everything on the cover i also need to think about the mis en scene and how i can make my model relate to the genre. As you can see the colouring of everthing is important because it has to capture the target audeinces eye for example on the second example the colours are mainly red and white and in bold which stands out! The main story is spread across the page and lager than the rest of the sub headings so that it is the frist thing the audeince read. I need to take all this information and board and make sure i think about them when starting my own magazine cover.

This is a good example of the contents page of a music magazine 'NME'. Instead of just listing on what is on each page 'NME' have inclded lots of colour to make it more interesting and images. When doing my contents page i will be using this one as an example, although it looks very busy this is what makes the whole magazine look apealing and without colour and it would be boring.