Magazine Research (not finished)

In today's lesson we were learning about different genres of magazines. For example: Heat, Ok! and Hello! are all celebrity/gossip filled magazines; whereas, NME, Smash Hits and Kerrang are all music magazines. This was a simple lesson starter which everyone in the class could contribute and identify with as everyone either knows of a magazine of reads one themselves.

We then spoke about how magazines make money through cover price and even though some magazines are free, they can still make money through advertising.

We were then taught the terminology of covers:

• Masthead
  
• Banner
  
• Graphic
  
• Main Cover Image
  
• Cover lines
  
• Bar code, price and issue date
  
• Mode of Address
  
• Boxed Text
  
• Main Cover Line
  
• Strapline

We were then put into a group of 4 and had to come up with a genre for a music magazine. Me and my group decided on having a Classical music magazine for young people as no one else was doing this in the class. For our next lesson, we are going to take pictures of for our front cover and have decided to have one person very formally dressed and another person more casually dressed to try and not stereotype classical music as something you have to wear a suit for.