2. Form
• The purpose of a magazine is to inform, entertain and educate for the
audience. Certain magazines report on different genres which results
on them being more of an entertainment magazine instead of a
informative magazine e.g kids magazine.
• Magazines range from different genres to try and entice different
people with different lifestyles e.g men's fitness.
3. More about form.
• The target audience for magazines can range depending on the genre
(for example a kids magazine is for 3-11 year olds)
• Magazines tend to be sold at a low cost usually anything between 99p
and £2.50.
• They usually sold at every superstore and you can find loads of
markets dedicated to selling them.
4. What makes a magazine unique??
• A magazine is unlike other forms of media because magazines usually
are heavily constructed with interviews of other people.
• This makes it unique as for a newspaper they would just mainly talk
about an event for example, but they would not really give an
interview (unless its a soft news).
5. Genre (Entertainment)
• First of all, what is an entertainment magazine?...
➢An entertainment magazine is a magazine, with articles that are
simply trying to entertain you.
➢These range from completely different genres like a film magazine,
car magazine and video games magazine for example.
6. Conventions of a entertainment magazine
• Heres a few examples of conventions used in magazines…
• The narrative of a newspaper would include the cover design, content
within the newspaper and featured people inside of it.
• Mise en scene is everything within the scene and magazines are able
to show us through the way of props, people in the cover art,
background etc.
• Direct gaze is when the model looks directly into the
camera to give us a sense of confidence.
