Research and Planning: Analysis of Music Magazine 1.

NME Magazine Analysis

GENRE:

• The genre of this magazine is a Rock magazine, I can tell this by analysing the following features.
  

AUDIENCE:

• I have used the psychographics of the magazine to analyse the audience.
  
• I feel the gender appeals to both male and female.
• The age is aimed at 16+ however, less of a students age as the magazine is very factual rater than just music gossip.
• The interests are shown through the cover stories featuring that of music and lyrics.
• The socio-economic grouping I found to be E (Students and Unemployed), i made this analysis based on the music genre and the use of tattoos on the artist which arent usually associated with professionals.
• The lifestyle of the people reading this magazine would probably be the middle class, they can afford things such as magazines, buying music and attending gigs/festivals.
  

REPRESENTATION:

• The representation of the person on the cover portrays the rock genre.
• One of the reasons I decided this is due to his extrovert pose.
• He appeals to both women as he is attractive to females but also an idol to males.
• His clothing and colours displays the genre. Quite dark choices.
• His tattoos are a representation of the artist and also the music genre.

MEDIA LANGUAGE:

• The medium close up shot makes the artist the main focus of the music magazine.
• The Mise en scene shown is the use of eyeliner on the male, which is associated with his music. Also his tattoos display this.

LAYOUT:

• The layout has the specific layout of a music magazine.
• The masthead and cover story show it is a music magazine by being an exclusive issue focused on an artist.
• The stories are very appropriate to the genre - 'My lyrics come from a really dark place' portrays the dark imagery associated with a rock magazine.
• Also the colour scheme used is well associated, Blues, Reds, Whites and Blacks.