How do the Music magazines signify their genre and attract their Target Audiences? Give evidence to support your answer.

Music magazines signify their genre and their target audience firstly by their main mid shot image which signify the audience and the genre firstly because of their person they use, if they use a black hip hop rapper then they will be aiming the magazine at the black origin that listen to hip hop. Also the clothes they are wearing shows the target audience for example if they are wearing baseball hats and hoodies it will show like a kind of gangster theme whereas if they are wearing skinny jeans and shirts it will be targeted at a different audience. Also the text matters because you wouldn’t expect graffiti writing on a hip hop magazine because then it would be for young kids and hip hop magazines are not for young kids. The colour scheme the magazine uses is also something for example if they used pink it shows that it is targeted mostly at females but some magazines with female pictures like Cheryl Cole could also be for men as they make her look sexy and make the men interested.

As you can see from this magazine it shows 50 dent who is a ganster rapper which straight away shows that it isnt for young kids.also the baseball cap and the long chain could aslo show a ganster type of look and the money shows that he is very rich. you would not expect a rock magazine to have baseball caps, long chains or money everywhere.