Definitions

Genre - The way a magazine is constructed ( put together) such as what images and colours are used that link to the themed text that belong to separate different themes. This can be important for example, when distinguishing between a Heavy metal magazine and a Rock magazine, which can deal with similar subject matter and may slightly look the same, but have a separate genre to them
A media text is said to belong to a genre, as it adopts the codes and conventions of other texts in the genre, and lives up to the same expectations.

This is an example of Rock Genre as it is a magazine that shows ranges of Rock  music.















Sub Genre - Further categorises a genre into a specialist area. For example Kerrang is a metal magazine which is a sub-genre of Rock.

Hybrid  Genre - When two genres conbine into one magazine, for example when fashion and music are put together into one magazine.

 

 

An example of this is A pop magazine called 'We love Pop'.