LIIAR ANALYSIS OF EXISTING MAGAZINES: TOP OF THE POPS

LIIAR ANALYSIS OF EXISTING MAGAZINES: Top Of The Pops

Front Cover

The magazine uses the colours the main colours used on the front cover is bright pink and white, these colours are consistent throughout the front cover and are used to advertise other stories I products. It’s important to keep this house style running because people are more likely to trust a magazine with a house style than without as it looks more professional and themed and starts to really build up a good brand image. The masthead is in bright pink and is outlined with a thick white line which really makes it stand out to the audience, each magazine they publish uses the same sized text the same font and colours which works really well as it starts to build up an icon for the magazine. Most magazines do tend to use their masthead as their icon because to come up with a title it has to be catchy unique and stand out to an audience which is also what an icon requires, name also gets spread by word of mouth which makes the magazine and the icon more recognisable to the public.  The colours used on the magazine are pink and white it looks as though they have taken the exact colours from the title and used them elsewhere which also helps build up a house style.

The main image is a medium close up the model is making eye contact with the camera this is done intentionally because the producer of the magazine has wanted the audience to create a relationship with the model through eye contact to persuade you to want to read her story and buy the magazine. The model has also been asked to pose in that way to match the house style, in this case they have asked the model to smile very cheerfully to reflect on his music which is pop. Pinks are usually associated with girly pop which is why the male model is surrounded by pink because himself and his music attract a girl audience. The model dominates most of the page which is also a very common convention of magazines. The main article is clearly shown that it associates with the main model on the page. It’s in a big circle shape and it looks as though it has been stamped on his chest, it is pink with big blocked white writing this really stands out to an audience. With it been stamped on his chest it suggests everything the article says comes from Justin Bieber’s heart himself  either that or it can suggest reading this makes girls want to pull him closer to their heart because they really like his music and are a huge fan. If the story is from the heart it makes it more of a gossip story and a must read story it also pulls quotes from the story itself teasing the pop audience to want to go buy the product.

The price of the magazine is £2.35 this is reasonable because the people who are going to buy the magazine will be teens around 14+ and that is an affordable price out of their pocket money or minimum wage. Teenagers are not going to spend big amounts of money on magazines as they want spare money to do their own things on a weekend, however in society now it is almost certain that everyone knows what is happening in the media world so teens will spend minimum money on these magazines to find out the latest in the media world as that is what society has taught us. The magazine is also clearly targeted at girls it uses bright pinks advertises make-up products and used Justin Bieber as their model whom most boys detest.

The front cover has many teasing devices that are randomly posted all over the magazine. It doesn’t really have any banners or structure to it. Ii think it should as with stories been jotted anywhere it makes the page look crammed and over crowded for example they could of advertised the make-up tips in a banner at the top of the page. And advertise Selena Gomez at the bottom and the rest would look better on a contents page.

This magazine is quite unique in the market because most music magazines are aimed at boys and girls. This magazine however is aimed at girls and it gives them something just specifically for them making them feel better about themselves and want to buy it as they feel it has been made for them. It also features really girly boy bands and boys that are always in the press for their looks, it offers free posters of these boy bands and singers which makes them buy it generally to look at them, however they are satisfied with what they get to read about and look at and they get free make-up tips to make them feel better about their appearance.

This magazine gives off a friendly happy atmosphere it’s very girly and positive which is what keeps this specific target audience satisfied. The magazine has used bright pinks and crammed up the page to reflect on how crammed these celebrities lives are with fans and stories about them. However this is what the audience want they want to be crammed up with this information as that will make them feel as though they have the top gossip which is what these magazines do to people they make them feel as though they need this information in order for them to feel “cool” it is just what society and the media world has done to people.

The magazine is targeted at specifically girls aged 12-16 I think that once they hot the age of 16 this magazine starts to become abit childish and older teens want something more sophisticated not bright pink and girly boy bands and singers. You can tell its aimed at girls by the over load of girl colour which is pink.

Even though this is not my type of music or the Genre I have picked to aim my magazine on I think it is a good point to look at many different Genres in order to understand how the magazine world works and what typical features are expected from each genre for example rock is red and black and pop is bright colours.