For the masthead, font, and color, the document summarizes how the magazine product uses conventions from real pop magazines to attract its target audience of young teen girls. Pink is used as it is a stereotypical girly color seen in most pop magazine mastheads. The white background follows conventions of real pop magazines by using a plain color to make the busy contents stand out. The front cover uses bright colors, freebies, competitions, and pink to attract its target audience, mimicking features found in real pop magazines like Top of the Pops and We Love Pop.

1. In what ways does your
media product use, develop
or challenge forms of real
media products?

2. Magazine title
For my masthead I used the font ‘DOUBLE BUBBLE’ because it looks more teen
friendly and my magazine is aimed at young teens. I chose to do the masthead in
pink because my magazine is targeted at young girls and pink tends to be a
stereotypical ‘girly’ colour. Also pink is the main colour of mastheads in most pop
magazines, so I chose to stick to this feature to make my magazine look more
realistic and to fit the codes and conventions of pop magazines. My masthead
could be compared to the mastheads of famous pop magazines such as “top of
the pops” in the sense that it has similar sizing compared to the rest of the front
page, its in bold, capital writing and it’s a similar shade of pink.This is done to
attract the target audience, which is teenaged girls.

3. Background
For the background of my magazine I chose to do a white background because it
makes the contents of the page stand out more and it follows the layout of most
pop magazines. Most pop magazines tend to have a plain white background to
make the contents of the busy page stand out. Also white tends to contrast with
bright colours which are usually seen in pop magazines.

4. Front cover
I made my front cover very busy and used various different bright, flashy colours in
order to attract the audience, which is young girls. I also added some freebiez,
competitions and other things which tend to attract a younger audience. Freebiez
and competitions are seen in most pop magazines, such as ‘top of the pops’ and
‘we love pop’. I used a lot of pink in my front cover because when I did my research
into existing pop magazines, I found that they almost all tend to have pink as a
main colour on the front cover.

5. Contents page
My contents page contains features that follow the codes and conventions of
existing pop music magazines. For example it features an editorial which includes a
handwritten signature.There is a picture of the front cover labeled with numbers of
where to find the page.Also my page numbers are colour coded in order or pink
and black.This is done so that it is easier to read for a younger audience.

6. People
The people featured in my magazine fit the codes and conventions of pop magazines
because in pop magazines, you usually tend to see young teenaged female
celebrities posing on the front cover. I chose to follow this feature because it makes
my magazine seem more realistic and young girls often look up to famous celebrities
who are around the same age or a few years older.Which is why this feature is
almost always used in pop magazine front covers.

7. Music Genre And HowYour
Magazine Suggest It
The music genre of my magazine is pop.This is clear through my magazine because
a lot of pink is used, there is tips and tricks from celebrities included (which you see
a lot in pop magazines), there is confessions, secrets and other gossipy things for
celebrities to reveal which young teenaged girls find really interesting.Also I used
abbreviation of words such as ‘popmag’ instead of using the word ‘magazine’ all
because it is just more text like and youth friendly.