What is a music magazine? w/ conventions

A music magazine can be very vague to define as there are a wide range of genres that are used. Initially, a music magazine is a magazine used or dedicated to music. Magazines can cover a specific genre of music whether it may be pop, rock, country or classical, all these genres of music appeal to different audiences and attract different kinds of people. In music magazines they may introduce new upcoming artists in that genre or how they are doing on the charts etc. On the cover it is usually a 'star' of the specific genre who will clearly attract that theme of music. It could be Beyonce on a pop magazine, or All American Rejects on a rock magazine. It wouldn't make sense to have Jay-Z on the cover of a classical magazine as that is not the genre of music he participates in.

.The colour scheme is essential to a magazine as it keeps it ordered and structured in terms of presentation. If the colours were all over the place then the magazine could potentially be tacky and unpresentable and may not reflect well on the magazine ulimately. Whether it be rock or classical, most magazines usually follow a colour scheme. However these colour scheems don't have to stick for every issue. Most magazines usually change their colour scheme all the time depending on the cover star or background.




The layout is usually the cover star/ or model is placed in the middle of the magazine and the puffs and addtional information is placed around the star usually on either side. The issue,price and barcode are most likely to be seen at the bottom right of the cover. The Masthead is the biggest font usually placed acroos the top/middle of the magazine cover. The Masthead would obviously be placed infront of the cover to show the name however the person is placed infront with certain letters showing as it's obvious that to regular readers what the magazine is even with certain words hidden.

The typography is also essential when it comes to magazines. The way text is arranged on a page can affect the magazine in ways the reader may not expect. Putting big names in a slightly larger font next to the cover star invites fans of those people to read the magazine. Font, size, spacing and colour are all essentials when dealing wth this. The size connotes importance in a way as the writing in a bigger font is usually what the readr is most likely to check up on in comparison to less important information that would be in a smaller font like the issue number.