The document discusses the key features of music magazines and how they were incorporated into a student's media project on a music magazine. It analyzes an existing magazine, Top of the Pops, noting its target audience is young females interested in pop music. The student aimed to create a magazine for a similar audience but with a broader range of musical genres. Key conventions like a cover photo, headlines and free gifts were included to attract readers.

1. Music Magazines The Main Features: Many music magazines are writing to inform rather than to persuade. They give readers an insight to what the current news is from the music industry. There are usually interviews with artists and in some more informal magazines they usually include some ‘gossip’. In my power point I will show an existing front cover analysed in more depth.

3. Clear Heading -This is used to grab the attention of potential readers Sub Headings -They are used to give readers an insight to what they can find in the magazine Free Gifts - The aim of these are to help entice potential customers to buy the magazine Main Photo - The purpose of this is to also draw readers to the magazine as it is usually a celebrity so it makes the magazine seem more prestigious Headline - Normally consist of outtakes from the interview with the cover star, to make you want to read the full interview Case Study I chose to analyse this magazine as I feel that it has the most in common with my own music magazine, it has the same target market and it includes the same type of music and features, such as free gifts and gossip.

5. (2) How does your media product represent particular social groups? (4) Who would be the audience for your media product? After researching existing music magazines, it was clear that there was a lack of Pop magazines, I also noticed that there was a gap in the market for a magazine with more of a female audience. This is because after looking at magazines such as ‘NME’ I found that they were targeted at more Individual music as opposed to everyday sounds. Therefore my answer to the above question is that I think it would appeal to females of a young age, this is because it has enticements of free posters and includes a ‘Gossip with Georgia’ which sounds quite girly and teenage so to speak. I hoped to include a range of musical genres as I feel that this would help to broaden possible readers, so I included a female ‘pop star’ as the main feature on the front page and I also included on my contents page features such as the live lounge which features acoustic music, this would help entice a different genre of music lovers. I think that the cover photo used helps to create quite a tasteful image, this is due to the position of the model and also her clothes aren’t revealing, which doesn’t give off the wrong impressions to the younger audience. The front cover uses a variety of fonts and colours, this makes the product eye-catching. The fonts used I feel are clear so it is therefore suitable for the intended audience.