1. Typically on the cover of a music
High shoes are always seen on female magazine the setting/ back ground
Pop artists and on music magazines. is always white. But throughout
You would always expect to see high the magazine the setting/
shoes on a girl band or female artist’s; background is always colourful or
Bright colours are always connoted with
in all pop magazines there is always a a very happy place, like a wall with
pop; this is because pop is very lively and
page dedicated to fashion, and they a lot of colour or graffiti over it, a
upbeat music. You wouldn’t associate the
always have a section on different comfortable sofa in interviews,
colour grey or black with pop because they
types of shoes you can wear and buy. and in front of a really relaxing
are very dull and depressing colouring, it
location.
would also make the magazine not look
like a pop magazine. Colours such as pinks,
yellows and bright greens and oranges are
uses to highlight the magazine as a pop
magazine.
Clean cut young artists are always
featured in pop magazines; they have
Codes and
that young innocent look to them. They
are shown because pop is quite a young Conventions
and lively genre, you wouldn’t connote a
female artists covered in tattoo’s scruffy
dressed etc in a music magazine. They of POP!
would usually be between the ages of
17-26, as they are trying to appeal to a
young audience, they would dress very Quirky and edgy clothes are
cute, and quirky sticking to the genre of always worn, ripped jeans,
pop. These include people and groups skirts, shorts, cute tee’s and
such as little mix, Cheryl Cole, JLS and dresses. Artists in pop
Justin Beiber. magazines always wear a lot of
brightly coloured clothes this
reflects the genre of pop.
Pop is very lively, and has an upbeat tempo. The songs are usually
very cheerful and make you want to dance. The colours associated
with pop such as the bright pinks and mellow yellows and the aqua
blues all connote the type of music of the genre pop. This links all of
the conventions together so when the audience see’s these things
they know that it is pop. The music seems to always be very catchy,
the artists that is singing the songs always seems to be quite young
between the ages of around 16-26 and they always tend to be
veryfresh faced these entire things link into the type of music that is
shown throughout the genre of pop.