Sunday, 13 September 2009

Research into music magazines

Media coursework research
At the moment there are many different kinds of music magazines available to people. Many of them focus on modern day pop artists or well known classic rock bands. Some different music magazines include; The Rolling Stones, Q, Clash, BBC music and MTV music magazine. Each of these cover a different genre of music, for example The Rolling Stones covers well known artists and popular bands of the past and present whilst Kerrang covers many different heavy rock bands. BBC music is famous for covering a lot of classical music artists and orchestras around the country.








Magazines
There are many different types of magazines. Magazines can either be print based or electronic magazines on the internet. They are mainly funded by advertising in their monthly or weekly issues, and do not just appeal to one age group but several.
Magazines cover a variety of different genres; the main genre’s are:
· Fashion
· Teen and fashion
· Health and fitness
· Music
· Women’s
· Car
· Computer
· Art
· News

List of magazines in the above categories

Some examples of fashion magazines-

· Vogue
· Cosmopolitan
· Glamour
· Elle
· Marie-Claire

Some examples of teen fashion magazines-

· Teen vogue
· Bliss
· Sugar
· Mizz
· Cosmo girl







Some examples of heath and fitness magazines-

· Alive
· Medicine
· Life positive
· Shape
· Health

Some examples of music magazines –

· Q
· BBC Musical
· FHM
· Rolling Stone
· R&R

Some examples of news magazines-

· The Economist
· The Reporter
· Hello
· OK!
· Red Herring
· The First Post

Some examples of women’s Magazines-

· Femina
· In Touch
· In Style
· Flare
· The Oprah

Some examples of computer Magazines-

· PC Pro
· PC World
· Windows Vista
· Computer Shopper
· New Computer Express

Some examples of art magazines-

· Art Calendar
· Raw Vision
· Contemporary

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