Research Music magazines Task

Magazines Examples

Audience (age, gender, hobbies and interests, other

media consumption)

Technical aspects (camerawork, lighting,

effects, colours, titles etc…)

Music Magazines VIBE

XXL

Kerrang

RollingStone

NME

CQ

Q

Billboard

Clash

Spin

Music

The age they are targeting is 12-28 year olds, because the magazine content is appealing to a younger audience because they mainly portray popular music that draws the attention of younger audiences because they want to be popular and join their friends. They target a mix gender because music has an open meaning and people are free to listen to whatever. The audience that read music magazines would be interested in video games, going out with friends and watching TV shows. The other media the audience may consume is social networking, watching TV and News.

The colours used for the magazine would be very vibrant, visible from far and also the titles used would be bold and standing out because they wish for the audience to remember the name of the magazine so they can pick up more issues and remember what to look for. The examples on the far left of the page, portrays that the music magazines follow the conventions of a music genres, they also include similar content that shows they’re the same type of genre for a magazine.

Rick Altman:

Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States. He has also published under the name Charles F. Altman. He was born on January 9, 1945 (age 70), De Ridder, Louisiana, United States. He was educated at Yale University (1971). He has received the awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada. Film/Genre (1999). Winner of the Society for Cinema Studies Katherine S. Kovacs prize for the best film book published in 1999.

Silent Film Sound (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Kraszna-Krausz Prize runner-up for best 2004-2006 book on photography, film, or media; Society of Theatre Librarians Prize for best book published in 2004 on recorded performance; Limina Prize for best film book published in 2004. Voted one of the top five film studies books of the last decade, in screening the Past poll.

A Theory of Narrative (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). Film sound; Hollywood genres; the musical; film theory; narrative theory. Rick Altman teaches courses on film sound, film genres, and narrative theory. In recent years he has taught courses on silent film sound and exhibition, Hollywood's conversion to sound, genre theory, the musical, the films of Rouben Mamoulian, and narrative theory. Having recently completed a long-term project entitled A Theory of Narrative, published by Columbia UP in 2008, Altman is currently working on a book that will trace the development of standardized sound practices during Hollywood's studio years. He continues to perform his Living Nickelodeon program in venues around the world (in 2009-10 at the Eastman School, Notre Dame, the Buffalo International Film Festival, a German tour, and NYU).