My media research

1. Research into Music Magazines
Kerrang magazine is a music magazine focused on the
rock, metal, metal core, hard-core, punk rock, emo and
heavy metal genre. This is evidently shown as Oli Sykes,
lead singer of Bring Me the Horizon is on the front
cover, and Bring Me the Horizon is a metal core/hard-core
band. You can also see other pictures of other
bands and band members which range from punk rock
to heavy metal.
Kerrang magazine is published by Bauer Media Group.
Kerrang magazines target audience would be mixed
gender with an age range spanning from 16-35 year
olds. It can attract teenagers with a music genre like
punk rock, rock, metal, emo, and then the older buyers
with a music genre like heavy metal, metal core, hard-core,
etc. Kerrang is mainly for people who like the rock
music genre, because rock has lots of sub-genres and
covers a wide range of genres.
The kind of stuff you’d find in a Kerrang magazine is
things like posters, as you can see on the front cover it says “5 Awesome Posters!” you can
also find stuff like behind the scenes photographs. You can also find interviews and a list of
the top ten things to find, like tours, as you can see at the bottom of the magazine it says
“The 10 Tours You Need To See In 2013” this drags you in because you want to know more
about which tours they recommend because they’re one of the biggest rock genre
magazines and so they’d know best what to go to. Also it allows you a bit of an insight to the
rock stars and band themselves because you get exclusive interviews and pictures.

2. NME magazine is a music magazine mainly focused
on the rock, alternative and indie genre.
This is evidently shown as Morrissey is shown on the
cover, who is from the band The Smiths, which is a
rock and alternative rock band. You can also see
other pictures of other bands and names of other
bands such as the Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Fall
out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, etc. which range from
rock to indie.
NME is published by Time Inc. UK.
NME’s target audience would be mixed gender with
an age range from about 16-35 year olds. It can
attract teenagers that like new indie and rock bands
like the Arctic Monkeys and Fall out Boy, but then
could attract older people that like rock and
alternative like The Smiths, who are a bit older.
The kind of stuff you’d find in an NME magazine is stuff like posters, because it says at the
top “FREE MASSIVE POSTERS!” You could also find stuff like interviews and live reports. It
also gives you a little bit of an insight to the bands and the members because there’s stuff
like interviews and pictures.
Q magazine is a music magazine focused on almost
every music genre.
This is evidently shown as on the cover you can see a
picture of Lana Del Rey, who is like a Hollywood pop
genre, and then you have other people mentioned like
Jay-Z and Kanye West who are the hip-hop genre, and
then you have Kings of Leon who are the rock genre, so
it’s a very mixed variety.
Q is published by Bauer Media Group.
Q’s target audience is mixed gender with an age range
from about 16-25 year olds. It attracts all sorts of music
tastes whether it be hip-hop, pop, rock, alternative, etc.
This is because it is aimed at almost every genre so it
attracts a very wide range of people who have all
different sorts of music tastes.
The kind of stuff you’d find in a Q magazine is stuff like
exclusive tracks, interviews, and pictures.