This pop magazine targets teenage girls with its bright color scheme of orange, white, and turquoise. The masthead "We <3 Pop" indicates it covers the pop genre in an informal and fun style. The layout is busy with overlapping fonts, images, and headlines designed to quickly engage readers. Photographs of the girl band The Saturdays appeal to different members' fans. The informal language and focus on gossip about popular artists aims to attract its young audience.

1. What genre does the magazine cover?
• It’s a pop magazine and you could tell it’s a pop
magazine because of the colour schemes and the
mast head which is “we love pop”.
• The colour scheme connotes pop as there is a
colour scheme of orange, white and turquoise
which are all bright colours, and typically bright
colours are used for pop magazines.
• The masthead of ‘We <3 Pop’ indicates what
genre the magazine covers as the heart
represents love, so it becomes ‘We love Pop’

2. What are the connotations of the masthead?
• It’s in a speech bubble which connotes loudness
and the heart indicates love.
• If you look carefully at the front cover you would
recognise that the masthead is in as speech
bubble which could connote loudness.
• The word ‘pop’ summarises what genre the
magazine covers and it gives the target audience
the chance to automatically recognise what
genre the magazine is.
• The ‘we’ indicates a unison of people, a
community that shares the same love for the Pop
genre.

3. Language techniques used by the headline
and sell lines?
• The sell lines in the magazine range from; ‘Are
The Wanted really poor?’ ‘Do you wanna see me
GRUMPY?’ The language used in the sell lines are
quite in formal, words such as ‘wanna’ aren’t
really formal language.
• Casual language is frequently used in the front
cover such as ‘tantrums’ and ‘total meltdown’
which teenagers will able to comprehend.
• The headline is ‘Saturday’s Soap Opera’ and the
language used in the headline is also quite
informal, it is language that teenagers would be
common with.

4. Layout style, fonts and colour scheme
• To summarise the layout style of the front cover
in one word, it would be busy, as there is a lot
going on all over the front cover.
• The style of the fonts are fun and stand out
amongst the strong images in the front cover.
• The font of the masthead indicates fun and
coolness, which appeals to the young target
audience.
• The colour scheme is white, turquoise and
orange which suggests that it is a pop magazine.
• The size of the fonts are sizes that are not too big
or too small, it’s in small chunks that audiences
can quickly take in.

5. Photography in the Magazine
• The main image is a group, mid shot of the girl
band ‘The Saturdays’ who are all doing different
poses, which appeal to various teenage girls as
they can feel as if they can relate to certain
members.
• All 5 of the band members have different props
they are using, it gives the impression that they
are a fun group.
• There are smaller images in the magazine which
relate to the sell line they are promoting such as
the picture of Max from The Wanted is above the
sell line of ‘Are The Wanted really poor?’

6. Other layout conventions & target audience
• There are other features that the front cover
has, such as having the typical convention of a
barcode and a strapline of ‘Tears, tantrums and
total meltdown!’
• There is also a pull quote in the front cover; ‘Do
you wanna see me GRUMPY?’ the pull quote is
from an article in the magazine, the purpose of
it is to attract readers to buy the magazine to
find out more.
• The information is laid out quite well as it’s
overlapping the picture so the audience focus
on the information more than the picture. The
target audience are teenage girls that listen to
pop music.