Magazine class notes

 Magazine 
The purpose of magazines is to entertain and to inform.

Conventions of music magazines:

• Adverts, tour dates, concerts
• music reviews
• merchandise
• news section
• posters
• competitions
• feat articles
• interviews
• contents page 

We do genre research to find out what the conventions are so that we can replicate them in our production. Also it's to gain a historical overview of the genre.

Music industry categorize music to target a specific market.