Morgans Media Magazine institute (hw) 1

Bauer Media Group

Bauer media are a huge magazine institution who sell more than just music magazines. They produce many big name magazine companies all over the UK. As you can see here they produce music magazines like 'Kerrang' but they also they produce gossip and football magazines like 'heat' and 'Match'. This tells us that Bauer are an institute that produces big name companies for any genre of magazine.




They have a buzz slogan to attract a larger TA. This slogan lets the audience know that they are known for being very influential and because they have it in big bold writing on the home page of their website, tells us that they are proud of this achievement and want this to be the first thing that the audience reads so it will draw them into the magazine site.

This is one of the magazines that they do. This shows that they do magazines on the genre of rock. I know this because Metallica are a famous rock group. Also the magazine has very large title with a font which relates to the group.
They have focused their front cover on Metallica, which suggests that their focus is on this group, which tells the audience that the magazine is about Metallica and rock. The fact that the magazine is about rock, suggests that the target audience is for teenagers and adults, because rock groups can be explicit. It is most likely also it is targeted at music/rock music lovers.

This is also one of the magazines that they do. The magazines show that they focus on pop music as well as rock, however Biffy Clyro is a pop/rock artist, which suggests that the institute focuses on rock. I think the target audience for this, is again teenagers and adults, because of the dark theme it has and childrens magazines tend to have bright colours.

This is Q magazine who are published by . This magazine suggests that they focus on rock groups because it has Dave Grohl on the front cover, who is the lead singer of a group called the Foo Fighters. The theme of the magazine suggests it is for teenagers, because of the dark colours and the  colours coming out of Dave Grohl's mouth. I think that it is meant to be fire and the band coming out of his mouth, which in my opinion relates to the genre of rock. Another reason I can tell the magazine is about Foo Fighters, is that the bands name is in big, bold letters, with a clear font, at the bottom of the page. On the cover of the magazine, I can also see that inside the magazine it features information about Nicki Minaj who is a pop artist, which suggests that also the magazine features information about pop music, as well as rock.

  

Overall I think that this institute focuses on rock music. I think this is because most of their magazine front covers feature pictures/information about rock bands. This also suggests that their target audience is older children because of some rock bands explicit content and dark themes.

Also Bauer Media Group have their own radio and TV stations as well as well as their magazines, which are sold and presented in over 15 countries.

TimeInc.UK/IPC Media

This institute produces many different magazine companies such as big name companies like Uncut and NME. As you can see this institute produces many different magazine companies. This tells us that this magazine company is big and is very popular. TimeInc was formally known as IPC Media until it was bought out and in 2014 it was formally known as TimeInc.

This tells us that they target an adult audience and they are a global institution. The magazine institution uses this slogan to attract a larger audience by letting them know that they are a big institution. 

This is a magazine that focuses on pop music. I know this because Paramore are a worldwide famous pop group and the magazine shows us that it is a music magazine by presenting a giant picture of the group and using large, bright font to make it stand out to audiences. The magazine has a mixture between dark and bright colours, which suggests that is targeted at children and teenagers. However the font that is used is large and clear which suggests that it could be for older ages, because it makes it clearer and easier to reads. Also because the background colours are darker could suggest that it is targeted at older audiences.

This magazine focuses on guitar playing, instead of vocal music. This has a very dark theme which suggests that it is for older audiences. The title is large and has a font that relates to the genre of the magazine. From the title and the picture, I can tell that it is a music magazine and is about guitars. The title also helps me understand this because of its size, it makes it clearer to understand.  

Overall I think that IPC focus on pop/rock groups. They tend to have a mixture between dark and bright colours in their magazine covers, which suggests that they like to publish magazines for a variety of different ages. 

IPC Media mainly work on magazines and books. In total they sell 350 million copies beach year which suggests that they are a huge world wide company.

 I think that bauer magazines focus on rock and pop themes/music. They have used dark colours in their magazines which relates to rock music, because allot of rock music is seen as dark music. I think they are targeting teenagers, because they have used groups who have been around and playing music for a while, also who are still playing music now. 

I feel that the institute that suits my magazine the most is TimeInc. I think this because they produce more country magazines and less rocky themed magazines, so because my magazine is a country and western, this institute suits it the best and would most likely publish mine.