This document provides an overview of the key elements typically found in music magazines. It discusses that music magazines aim to entertain, advertise, and inform readers about a specific music genre. Content includes interviews, reviews, tour dates, posters, and artist profiles. Images usually feature artists/bands, upcoming events, instruments, and merchandise. Other common features are a masthead, coverlines, barcode, date, price, and color scheme. These standard elements make the magazines easily recognizable and help establish their professional brand.

1. Task 1: Music Magazine Research
and Planning
David Rose

2. What is a Music Magazine?
• A music magazine is a magazine that covers a specific
music genre in different ways.
• The purpose of a music magazine would be to
entertain, advertise and inform. The reader of a
magazine would expect all of these things. Overall,
entertaining would be the main purpose that a
magazine producer would aim for as the audience
reading the magazine want to be entertained over
anything else.
• The audience for a music magazine would depend on
the genre of the magazine.

3. What Content would you expect to
find in a Music Magazine?
You would expect to find a wide range of content in a
music magazine. Content such as:
• Interviews with stars
• Reviews
• Tour Dates
• Posters
• Artist Profiles
• And More

4. What Images would you expect to
fin in a Music Magazine?
You would expect to find a wide range of images
throughout the music magazine, images such as:
• Artists/ Bands- Images of fans favourite stars
• Upcoming Events- Venues, Studios (behind the scenes)
• Instruments (depending on the genre of music)
• Brand Identity- Rolling Stones wear same clothes and have the same
stance.
• Merchandise

5. General Characteristics/ Features
that you'd expect to find
There are many general features in a magazine that you
would expect to find, general features such as:
• Images of Artists or Bands
• Specific Language- Slang, Jargon
• How often its sold- weekly, fortnightly, monthly
• Range of cost (£2.50-£4.50)
• Most Magazines have some sort of online presence

6. Identify the Features/
Characteristics they all have
They all have:
• A main image
• A masthead
• Coverlines
• A Barcode
• A Date
• A Price
• A Colour Scheme

7. Why are the Features Present on all of the
Magazines? Why are they Important?
• They are all typical features that you would expect to
find on a magazine cover.
• The audience is used to seeing these things so they know
what they are buying.
• The features give out an organised layout which is
simple for the reader to understand.
• The features such as the barcode, date and price all help
make the magazine legal.
• The colour scheme on the magazine covers again make
them look organised and proffessional.

8. Take one of the Magazine Covers and
Say What Type of Music Magazine it
is?
This is a Rock Magazine:
• Black background gives the magazine a
gothic feel about it which indicates rock.
• The font of the masthead comes across very
bold and edgy. The lines going through the
masthead make it look aggressive which
links to the aggressive music.
• The cover lines on the front cover includes
artists that are known for producing rock
music