This document summarizes the typical styles, audiences, and conventions of different music magazine genres. It finds that R&B magazines vary widely in color palette and mainly feature large front page images, targeting teenagers. Pop magazines use bright colors like pink and purple to attract teenage girls and feature recent pop singers. Classical magazines have subtle black, red, and white graphics and target older generations. Rock magazines are dark to match the music and have busy covers with many images and text, appealing to a wide audience range including teenagers and the general public.

1. By Ben Harris

2. This is my Research into looking at the different genres of
magazines and their typical audience. I have been looking
into all of the codes and conventions of a rock magazine
because that will be the one I am producing. Therefore I will
note down the colour scheme and research their target
audience so that it will help me when I come to design my
own.

3. 
Many R&B Magazines vary with their colour pallets, It will either range
from being really dark or go to bright, it is as if there is no set graphics for
it. They will mainly use a large main image which will cover the whole
front page. Therefore I believe that the main audience for an R&B
magazine are based around mostly teenagers judging from the language
used and the fact that they have included the most latest R&B singers on
the front, simply because this is what the younger generation listens to.

4. 
Pop magazines tend to have very bright and colourful graphics which
happen to attract their readers. But me personally I don not like these
bright colours. Pop magazines are usually pink and purples which is
aimed towards attracting teenage girls. The main image is usually a
recent pop singer who the majority of teenage girls listen to.

5. 
Classical magazines are pretty straightforward, the front covers are not
normally cramped and using the language for example. We immediately
start to understand that they are for the older generations. The graphics
are very subtle as there are mainly blacks, reds and whites. They are not
really loud colours like POP or R&B. Usually Classical magazines have the
main image underneath masthead, but this does vary.

6. 
Rock magazines are dark and gloomy as it compliments the music style,
being Rock/Heavy Metal. For rock, I believe that they have the widest
range of audiences compared to other genres as Rock is not only
favourite by teenagers, it covers a vast majority of the public. Most rock
magazines seems to have a really busy front cover using mainly images,
cover-lines and large titles.