Magazine research

Today in Dans lesson we looked at music magazines. We focussed on cover terminology and audience appeal. At first we were shown a front cover of the music magazine called "Hip-Hop connections" .We then as a class went thorough all the conventions that made this magazine cover appealing to its specified audience, for example we identified that the main cover image involving six "ghetto" looking men, the men looking the way that did and he gestures they were pulling told us that the audience were from an Urban culture. We were then put in groups and were given a magazine front cover and were told to analyse it. We identified the masthead, cover lines, graphics, the mode of address and many other features. it was these features that old us that we were looking at a magazine for perhaps the male sex of ages somewhere inbertween 30-40. The colour, layout and font also told me this; It was very broad and not very detailed.