1. Reader profile Research
Abbie Jackson

2. Magazines do research so they can find out the conventions
needed for their magazine, the magazine will find out what it
needs in order to sell to their target audience, whether it be for
young teenage girls or elders. These conventions will catch the eye
of the specific audience and make them want to buy it.

3. They also research so they can find out what to involve in magazines for
example, 'who is popular in the music industry today?' the magazine will need to
do an interview with them and base the questions on what the audience need to
know. The magazine needs to know, who to put on the cover (who is popular in
this moment in time) for example on the cover of 'Vibe' magazine is Chris
Brown, at the time this issue was made Chris Brown was popular and people
wanted to know about what is going on in his life, he had the main headline and
the readers wanted to know about him, also what they need to wear, what
questions they need to ask, what colours to use, if it was a young girls magazine
the obvious colour scheme would be pink. But in this case the two magazines
show the colour scheme of red, this connotes the colour of danger perhaps
meaning Chris Brown is dangerous. The facial expressions both artists
are pulling look dangerous which also links in with the colour scheme and
the rebellious stereotype of the R&B genre. The language also needs to suit the
audience, 'girl talk' wouldn't suit a R&B magazine, the conventions would be
wrong and the magazine wouldn't sell to its target audience. Doing
this research makes sure that the magazine has all the right conventions needed
for its genre in order to sell and become popular.

4. Many magazines today have online websites for exclusive
interviews/images/competitions not included in the
magazine or, further detail online.
People running these social media sites post things for that
specific audience to keep them interested.
For my magazine, I am targeting people from age 15-26, this
is a young generation who use social media the most,
therefore to keep my readers interested I need to keep up to
date with social networking sites and post relevant topics to
attract more people.

5. R&B target audience

6. • Tattoos
• R&B style/clothing and hair
• Piercings
• Latest R&B Music
• Biggest Artists
• Have Social Media updates
• Competitions