Typical music magazines have a large mast head at the top of the page. Conventionally, it is the top left hand corner, however a few magazines use the mast head to the full width of the page. Well established music magazines may have their model on the front page covering the mast head slightly. They can afford to do this as the magazine and institution are so well known, the reader will know what magazine it is just by looking at the house style and font. There is also an obvious lexical field of words used in music magazines to make it specific to that one group of people interested in it. Each music magazine will have their own style of writing but ultimately, all the language used will fall under the same obvious heading of music.
An 'exclusive' headline is often a convention of a music magazine as that is how they promote their main, most important story. This sells the magazine as readers can't help but read the headline, which makes them want to read the magazine.
Most music magazines are published monthly as the music industry doesn't change drastically enough to be written about weekly. Also, to be published once a season there would be far too much content, which would make it more expensive too. The price of the magazine mainly depends on how often it is published., If a magazine is published weekly it is likely to be around £2.00 to £2.50. This is because it wont have as much content. Weekly magazines are more like newspapers rather than magazines, such as NME. Monthly magazines are around £3.00 to £4.00 purely because of the content. There isn't many music magazines published once a season, but those that are in excess of £5.00 because they contain a lot of information, meaning their publishing costs will rise dramatically. The institutions also have to make a lot of money to keep their company going between issues published, so they put the price up to cover the costs and ensure they have money to spend on the issue for the next month.
There are many different genre's of music magazine, the largest being pop. The age range for this is huge as children can be interested in pop music such as Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. These artists are largely admired by those from around 5 or 6 to about 12/13. However older teenagers and even some adults can also be interested in these artists. This means that there needs to be a range of magazines for all age ranges to buy as pop music can be listened to by people of all ages. There are other genres such as rock and indie which are mainly listened to by older generations from about 25 to 35 but also some teenagers are interested in these genres. Both of which in fact are very popular amongst teenagers.
The target audience for music magazines largely depends on the genre of the magazine. There are loads of different age groups that music magazines are aimed at, but the biggest group is 15 - 24yrs. This is mainly because these are the unemployed people that have more time to read magazines and also the majority of them go out to clubs and other various parties and listen to music. This group also includes college and university students. These students are more likely to have a spare bit of time to read the magazines while resting before exams etc, as opposed to a business man or woman who generally doesn't have a great deal of free time.
Music magazines conventionally portray a positive image of the music industry and also of the readers. They do this by using positive language and focusing on the positive aspects of the music industry. However, the institutions know everybody likes a bit of gossip, so they will sometimes feature a few negative headlines of certain artists to engage the reader and make them think the gossip is 'exclusive' to that magazine.
An 'exclusive' headline is often a convention of a music magazine as that is how they promote their main, most important story. This sells the magazine as readers can't help but read the headline, which makes them want to read the magazine.
Most music magazines are published monthly as the music industry doesn't change drastically enough to be written about weekly. Also, to be published once a season there would be far too much content, which would make it more expensive too. The price of the magazine mainly depends on how often it is published., If a magazine is published weekly it is likely to be around £2.00 to £2.50. This is because it wont have as much content. Weekly magazines are more like newspapers rather than magazines, such as NME. Monthly magazines are around £3.00 to £4.00 purely because of the content. There isn't many music magazines published once a season, but those that are in excess of £5.00 because they contain a lot of information, meaning their publishing costs will rise dramatically. The institutions also have to make a lot of money to keep their company going between issues published, so they put the price up to cover the costs and ensure they have money to spend on the issue for the next month.
There are many different genre's of music magazine, the largest being pop. The age range for this is huge as children can be interested in pop music such as Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. These artists are largely admired by those from around 5 or 6 to about 12/13. However older teenagers and even some adults can also be interested in these artists. This means that there needs to be a range of magazines for all age ranges to buy as pop music can be listened to by people of all ages. There are other genres such as rock and indie which are mainly listened to by older generations from about 25 to 35 but also some teenagers are interested in these genres. Both of which in fact are very popular amongst teenagers.
The target audience for music magazines largely depends on the genre of the magazine. There are loads of different age groups that music magazines are aimed at, but the biggest group is 15 - 24yrs. This is mainly because these are the unemployed people that have more time to read magazines and also the majority of them go out to clubs and other various parties and listen to music. This group also includes college and university students. These students are more likely to have a spare bit of time to read the magazines while resting before exams etc, as opposed to a business man or woman who generally doesn't have a great deal of free time.
Music magazines conventionally portray a positive image of the music industry and also of the readers. They do this by using positive language and focusing on the positive aspects of the music industry. However, the institutions know everybody likes a bit of gossip, so they will sometimes feature a few negative headlines of certain artists to engage the reader and make them think the gossip is 'exclusive' to that magazine.
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