Genre Research

Genre Research

We have included 3 Billboard magazine front covers because this is the type of magazine that we decided we wanted to use. Although we have focused on Vibe magazine that is because we really liked the layout of the front page and found that their target audience was similar to ours. We decided to incorporate Billboard magazine into our work because they are a pop magazine which has a mature look to their front cover. We like the colours they use and the layout of their pages as they do not have much clutter.

Genre ResearchThese 3 magazines are all very similar. The main image of the front cover shows that they are wearing really glamorous clothes, and the poses that they are doing they look sophisticated and glamorous. Moreover, because the women that are on it all have a really well known reputation, their faces/heads cover the masthead of the page. On the Rihanna magazine and the Beyoncé magazine, there is a quote from each singer. This seems like a popular idea. The names on the magazines are also really bold and stand out. The fonts they have used compliment the over all style of the magazine along with the actual singer. Each magazines stories are linked into other singers that are linked into the industry. Taylor Swift is mentioned in the Katy Perry and Beyoncé magazine and in the Rihanna one Pitbull is mentioned. Their names have been put in a fairly bold which is important because it means that their fan base will see their name and also be interested into reading the magazine to find out the stories that are going on about them. The stories that have been included in all of these magazines are more about the music in general, and it is not very gossip hungry and about the celebrities personal lives. This is because it is aimed at a mature audience and their target audience is not young people. Another thing that supports their mature target audience is that the pages aren’t over cluttered. There is space on the page and it is more of a clean and neat layout. This is because adults will find a page that is overly cluttered and too childish.