Main Task : Magazines

My task is to create a music magazine for my chosen genre and audience I aim to targett.
Here I am going to analyse 5 different front covers of music magazines and compare them to see which features they share and how they are simular.


The magazines 'MOJO,' 'Q' and 'NME' dennote a young, male band as the main sell. Using this as the main sell conotes youthfulless and also rebellion as all three of the bands are staring directly into the camera and wearing blacks and greys. Because of the male figures used as the main sell, this means that these particular magazines could appeal to a male audience because of the male dominant bands. But it could also appeal to women as they may be attracted to the men in the bands.


Also with these three magazine's and 'music' the dominant colours seen through out the front cover are red, white and black. These colours are quite bold and work well together, using the black as the main background colour and using the red and white in the fore ground as the main sells, cover lines and strap lines. The fonts used in 'MOJO,' 'Q' and 'NME' are a sans serif and all in capital, block letters. The use of this style of font makes it stand out and is eye catching. Using capitals creates a sharp and strong image, and quite a manly image to. The font also links in with the main sell, where bold male figures are used and adds to the feel of a male targetted audience.


'MOJO' and 'mix mag' iclude a freebie, which provides an added value to the magazine and is a feature which will appeal to the reader.


All 5 of the magazines position their masthead at the top of the page and also all the magazines have their mainsell overlapping the masthead, with mainly the mainsells heads as the main focus of the magazine and the coverlines and strap lines worked arond them.
All three of the magazines dennote one main colour for the font of the cover line and another less bold colour for the strap line. This feature is used continuously on the front covers.

'MOJO' with a price of £4.10 would be targetted at an upper market audience, interested in classic rock music and on the Jicnars scale probabally some where between C2 and B. The kinds of people this magazine is created to attract are radicals, as they are interested in rock music and persieve themselves to be different.
'Q' at a cheaper price of £1.90 would be targetted at a more mainstream audience as the magazine is based on popular music. They would target the audience at Hedonists and aspirers who want to move up the social scale musically.
'mix mag' with a price of £4.20 would appeal to a higher audience as its quite a steep price for a magazine, but thie magazine would appeal to trendy and fashionable students who know the music that is popular in todays society and listen to the mainstream, commercial acts.
'NME' has a price of £2.20 and would appeal to a main stream audience as it is a popular music magazine. The audience the magazine would try to targett could be aspirers or succeeders and would probablly be hedonists. NME could appeal to any age range.
'music' with the steepest price of £4.30 would only really appeal to people who have a real passion for classical music as it is a heavily based classical music magazine. It could appeal to young students studying classical music or the older generation.