Creating Music Magazine

The front cover

• The front cover is the main selling tool as it is used to persuade the buyer and attract the audience.
• The front cover needs to jump out from the shelf and establish their own reconisable identity
• The front cover shows the readers expectations of the magazine and should show a distinct culture identity
• As we read from left to right and top to bottom the prime position for the most important text is top left
• You should consider the layout e.g. size, shapes, colours

Sentence functions

• Declaratives - making a statement
• Imperatives - giving orders
• Interrogatives - asking questions
• Exclamatives - suprise or alarm

Tricks of Language

• Alliteration
• Sibilance
• Assonance
• Rhyme

Intertextuality

This is where we are reminded of another form of media or saying, such as 'boys r us'. In music magazines this often refers to films or programmes.

Contents Page

• Use the contents page to orientreer the way around the magazine
• This helps us to skip to artists/bands we are interested in
• A set agenda which remains constant in each issue
• We read magazines in a non linear fashion

Information value - the placement of elements reflects their importance
Saliance - the size of the subject reflects its worth
Framing devices - can connect/disconnect elements