The target audience and genre is very important to a company when creating a music magazine as they want to make the audience to be as broad as they can, or specific as they can, by doing this the front cover needs to look a certain way. The artist on the front needs to represent that genre of music. The font and the colours also needs to link with the genre to get the right target audience, ideology would be used to get across who the magazine is aimed at, using ideas and believes of the people they want to read there magazine. for example:
Smash hits
By looking at the front cover of smash hits you know exactly who the magazine is aimed at, by using Britney spears this shows that it is pop music, the colours pink and yellow are very feminine showing that this is based mostly for girls as well as advertising that there are 12 free posters of men also indicates the target audience, everything on the front cover needs to be thought about in order to attract a large audience. this magazine is very pacifically for young teenagers who like pop music.
Q magazines genre.
Whereas looking at q magazine straight away you would know this is for a different audience than smash hits, the colours used in this are red white and black the artist is also dressed very dark this shows that it is not going to be for very feminine young girls like smash hits but maybe for an older audience, the artist is holding a guitar which is iconic to rock music this communicates the music genre as been rock. The style of the magazine is very obvious the masthead "Q" looks like it has been smashed this also shows you that the music genre is not going be pop or hip hop, but rock.
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