Initial planning and research into music magazines

1. 1. What is a music magazine?
A music magazine is a magazine that consists of articles about music; talking about artists, what’s
going on in the music world, who’s hot and who’s not etc.
A masthead with
use of black and
red colour and a
big font making
it stand out to
the audience.
Cover lines mention
artist names
indicating that this is
a music magazine.
Rhetorical
questions about
musicians to draw
the audience in and
get them to buy the
magazine.
Picture of a well-
known artist, Eminem,
to draw audience in.
Picture shows use of
levels and has been
edited to look better.
2. What content (text/copy/writing/articles/stories) would you expect to find in a music magazine?
A music magazine will mainly consist of text referring to and talking about music. Below is an example
of an article talking about Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Picture of an
artist to go
with the
point being
discussed.
3. What images would you expect to find in a music magazine?

2. Images found in a music magazine usually consist of artists, places and whatever is being discussed.
Things that are also linked to music are put in, for example if an artist has a new style there may be an
article talking about it or even an interview with the artist talking about his choices and why they
made them.
4. Identify general characteristics/ Features that you would expect to find in all music magazines
A masthead
Cover lines
/logo which
that tend to
generally stays
talk about
with the same
artists, fashion
font, style of
or things to do
writing etc.
with music.
An eye catching Dominating picture
interview with an which draws the
artist that may audience into
draw the reader buying the
in, this is optional. magazine.
Barcode, date
Header and footer may and price.
be used on the cover of
a magazine however
they are not a must
have.