1. 1. What is a music magazine?
A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines
typically include music news, interviews, photo, etc.
All magazines must include a masthead to
illustrate to the audience the name of
company that has produced this magazine.
Music magazines include
main images of a specific
singer or musician who is
well known in the music
world. In this case it’s Chris
Brown. The image is mainly
portrayed in the centre.
The cover lines are bold and
outlined to attract the
audience, in this case it’s the
name of the singer to
emphasise what type of
audience the magazine is
aimed at which is appropriate.
2. What content (text/copy/writing/articles/stories) would you expect to find in a music
magazine?
A music magazine contains many specific things that would be included in the content of
music magazines. These include images in the magazine which is a must because it makes
the magazine more visual and creates an image in the readers mind. There is text which
refers to how the magazine describes music and Chris’s life as he’s the main image. There
also stories/gossip of the latest celebrities in this case Chris Brown
3. What images would you expect to find in a music magazine?
You would expect images of singers or musicians which are well known in the music industry.
They must refer to the targeted audience as otherwise it won’t be as eye catching. You may
also expect an image of an instrument as they are the tools needed to create music and it
may catch the attention of viewers
4. Identify general characteristics/ Features that you would expect to find in all music
magazines.
In all music magazines you would expect a masthead which is the main title;
this is normally the company name. The use of this is to allow the audience
to understand where this magazine is coming from and which company it is
produced by. It must be bold and very clear so it can stand out because this
is the most important information that the reader will view, this means the
colour and the font need to be very specific. The masthead will always be

2. .
The next characteristic that you would
expect in a music magazine would be a
main central image that would dominate
most of the frame.
Another characteristic that you would
expect in a music magazine would be cover
lines are the image. Cover/seller lines are
used to tell the reader what the magazine
would include. It sometimes also tells what
the main image is about in case some
viewers don’t know; in this case it would be
‘DRAKE’