Detail Research into forms and conventions

For my magazine, Iam going to focus on selling my magazine to teenagers and also the younger adulthood generation, because many of the magazines which you can buy today target that general genre. So this magazine is going to be for people who like rock and pop music and who want to be aspirers.

In some ways the magazines that I looked at, they all have some similar patterns to try and appeal their audiences ti buy their magazine. But then in other ways they have used other forms and conventions to try and make it different. The three magazines that I have looked at, NME, Q and Kerrang, title and style wise for these mags are reletivly the same. All three of them use quite dark, bland colouring for the lettering of the coverlines and the sidelines, thenn also for the background. The only thing which is different about the front covers of these three magazines is the layout of them. The audiences are different in all of the magazines, Kerrang are more like based at a teenage generation, just getting into the adult stages, aged around 14-21. In the jicnar scale, I believe that they would be classed around a c2, because I dont think they have much of an understanding of how the music industry works compared to the likes of NME and Q magazine. Kerrang have more of a lombard attitude towards music, so they dont really care what people think about them as long as theie still enoying themselves in the music industry. An example of this would be Hayley Williams on the front cover of Kerrang magazine punching her fist out towards the audience and her slogans around her saying words like "I know who Iam". So Kerrang and their bands give sort of a domineering approach towards their audience, which some people in the UK like and thats why Kerrang is one of the most popular music magazines.

NME and Q magazines audience are based on also teenagers but also the adult generation. They are quite simple in what they do aswell, which what I mean by that is they act like lombards, their more mature in what they do in the music industry. In their magazines and on the front cover, its quite bland and simple.

I believed I had to research into these magazines to give me a better understanding of how different magazines act towards different audiences, So I know what people like in a magazine and so I can find it easier to produce my magazine.