Front Cover Analysis - Top of the Pops
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The document analyzes the October 2007 issue of Top of the Pops magazine. It summarizes that the magazine targets young girls aged 11-15 through features like using pink colors and images of female pop stars on the cover. It also aims to attract this audience through gossip and makeover tips in sell lines. Additionally, it keeps prices low to appeal to its target readers who may have limited weekly allowance money to spend.
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'We Love Pop' is a monthly music magazine launched in September 2011 that targets teenage girls aged 13-16. It costs £2.99 and is published by Egmont UK. The magazine focuses on pop music artists and celebrities and includes articles, interviews, and features on fashion, beauty, films and technology. It uses bright pinks and other bold colors in its design with a busy layout and aims to inform and entertain its young female readership.
FINAL EVALUATION
The document discusses the target demographic and influences for a proposed music magazine for older teen girls. It aims to combine music and high street fashion for females in their late teens. The magazine takes inspiration from Top of the Pops magazine in its conventions like bright colors and direct images while targeting a slightly older audience. Research found a lack of magazines combining music and fashion for this demographic.
Front cover analysis
The front cover uses bright colors and images of popular artists like Cher Lloyd to appeal to its teenage audience. It promotes gossip, fashion, and stories about popular boys bands to draw readers in. The informal language and sans-serif font creates a casual, friendly tone. Images of the artists looking directly at the reader are intended to make them feel personally addressed. Additional features advertise exclusive interviews and a poster insert to further interest potential buyers.
Front Cover Analysis
This summarizes the front cover of a pop magazine. It follows conventions like having a masthead, main celebrity image relating to the main sell line, and uses pink/purple colors. The masthead is in a unique speech bubble font placed in the top left corner for visibility. The main image is singer Ariana Grande, wearing a pink dress and addressing the reader with a smile. Quotes from her interview come out of her mouth. The layout uses feminine colors and images of celebrities to appeal to its target audience of young girls. It maintains a similar style across issues to reinforce the brand identity.
Front Cover Analysis - 'We Love Pop'
The magazine masthead uses a heart shape instead of the word "love" to appear more fun and grab attention. The masthead clearly shows the genre as a pop magazine.
The front cover image dominates the page and features the girl group The Saturdays, appealing to the young, female target audience. The band members are dressed in bright colors and styled to represent their individual personalities.
The left side contains headlines about Justin Bieber, The Wanted, and an event, using questions and intrigue to engage readers. Color and formatting are used consistently to make the content stand out.
Front Cover Analysis 'We Love Pop'.
The magazine masthead uses a heart shape instead of the word "love" to appear more fun and grab attention. The masthead clearly shows the genre as a pop magazine.
The front cover image dominates the page and features the girl group The Saturdays, appealing to the young, female target audience. The band members are dressed in bright colors and styled to represent their individual personalities.
The left side contains headlines about Justin Bieber, The Wanted, and an event, using questions and intrigue to engage readers. Color and formatting are used consistently to make the content stand out.
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Front Cover Analysis - Top of the Pops
- 1. Analysing Magazines – Top of the Pops October 2007 Issue By Lizzie Mitchell
- 2. The Masthead is pink and sparkly The logo is in the top right and in a girly font to appeal to its hand corner and is in the same target audience of young girls. style as the masthead to create a signature style. The BBC logo in the left hand corner creates The main image features well trust as it is a well known and known movie stars, smiling and trusted brand so parents won’t looking happy to create the worry about the content inside. young and positive feel of the The secondary images of magazine. The image observes couples and the sell lines relate the rule of thirds by locating to gossip and crushes, all of them on the right hand side of which will appeal to the target the page and placing the focal audience. The colourful banner points along the intersecting lines draws attention to the sell line if the page was divided into nine and contrasts the pink banner squares. Their clothing isn’t above it – so will attract the revealing and is cute and attention of young girls. girly, which makes it suitable for children. The products in the ‘A List Glam’ section are all very The main sell line uses child-like cheap which will again attract language like ‘star’ and ‘make- young girls who maybe only over’ to attract young girls get a small amount of pocket attention – they want to look like money to spend each week – the girls on the cover so they will so they may be persuaded to be lured in by the style tips this buy TOTP magazine because magazine offers. of the cheap fashions inside. The words ‘glam’ and ‘hot’ are also targeted towards a younger audience.
- 3. Target audience of TOTP Magazine Key facts Cover Price £2.99 Frequency Weekly Circulation 78,352 Readership 331,000 Boys 15% Girls 87% Age range 11-15 years The table above shows the target audience is mainly girls aged 11-15. The magazine targets these children by using lots of pink and purple colours on the cover, and having images of mainly girls on the cover – mainly ‘pop princesses’ which these young girls will look up too and aspire to be like. The sell lines all relate to gossip and looking ‘glam’ or ‘make over tips’ which will appeal to young girls as they want to look like these girls on the cover. Lots of acronyms like ‘omg’ are used which are representative of how the target audience talk.
- 4. History of TOTP Magazine • Top of the Pops magazine is a weekly publication published by BBC Magazines. It features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. • The magazine was launched in February 1995, and is famous for giving girl group The Spice Girls their nicknames.. • It was originally marketed as the missing link between Smash Hits and NME, but changed to have less music content and target young girls. • It is still published today, in 2012, despite the TV show being cancelled.