This document discusses music magazines, including what they are, the types of content and images typically found in them, and common features of magazine covers. It notes that music magazines provide stories about artists' lives, careers, and music to inform and entertain readers. Typical content includes articles, photos, and reviews. Common cover features are mastheads, taglines, cover lines, barcodes, and dates to identify the magazine and indicate main stories. The document also analyzes the target audience and genre of the sample Vibe magazine cover focusing on urban artist Kanye West.

1. Section A- Initial Introductory
task

2. General questions about music
magazines

3. 1. What is a music magazine?
A magazine that focuses on music and the music
industry.
Provides the reader with interesting stories to
inform and entertain, possibly to educate.
Provides the reader with stories about the music
artists lifestyles and choices as well as just
information about their music career, this could
include stories about relationships, families and
issues they might currently be facing.

4. 2. What content would you expect to find in a
music magazine?
Articles about music, music artists and their life.
Photographs from their everyday life and photoshoots.
Reviews on artists music and songs, interviews
on artists and Competitions for the readers.

5. 3. What images would you expect to find in a
music magazine?
Images of the music artists- main image that is
big on the front cover, smaller images around
the side of the front cover with cover lines.
Images relating to the stories inside the
magazine.
Photo’s taken by paparazzi.
Photo-shoot's and group shots.

6. 4. Identify general characteristics/features that
you would expect to find in all music magazines?
On the front cover there would be; a masthead,
selling line, main cover line, cover lines, pug,
barcode.
Inside the magazine there would be reviews,
interviews, photographs, an exclusive story,
other stories about other artists.

7. Questions about music magazines
front covers

8. .1. Identify the features/
characteristics they all have?
• All music magazines have a masthead, tagline,
a main cover line, other cover lines, main
image, other images, a barcode, a date line
and a pug.

9. 2. Why are these features present on
all of the magazines? Why are they
important?
• The masthead- this is present in all magazines as it is used to draw
attention to the magazine initially, the masthead gives the magazine a
brand name so it is easily represented and recognizable.
• A tag line is used to give the magazine a selling point and a line/slogan to
remember the magazine by.
• The main cover line and image are usually linked, they indicate what the
main article in the magazine is going to be about straight away.
• The date line is there to tell the reader when this magazine was produced
so how recent the information and stories are within the magazine.
• A pug is a unique selling point in the magazine- it is usually in a different
kind of shape such as a star or circle to draw peoples attention too it.
• Other images are put on the front cover to give some indication on what
other articles will be in the magazine and who they will be about.
• The other cover lines on the magazine inform the reader on what other
articles will be in the magazine.
• The barcode is just important for the sale of the magazine.

10. 3. Take one of the magazine covers
and say what type of music magazine
it is( sub genre)?
• The VIBE magazine is an urban magazine. The front
cover has a close up of Kanye West with a moody
obnoxious expression this instantly suggests that the
magazine is not a pop or classical music magazine. To
anyone aware of the music industry it is clear that
Kanye West is a Urban artist therefor with him on the
cover of the magazine this is what genre the music
magazine is about. The header features the name
‘Noutorious B.I.G’ who was also an urban artist.
• The cover line ‘KANYE WEST I AM RAP’ also supports
that the music magazine is urban genre.

11. 4. For the same magazine say who you
think the target audience is?
I think that the target audience for VIBE would
be elder teenagers/ young adults who are
interested in urban music and rap, they
wouldn’t have a disposable income to spend
freely however they are not that short for
money. I think the target audience would
typically me black males and females who relate
to the music created by these artists.