The document discusses the masthead, cover design, and written content of a pop magazine created by the author. The masthead follows conventions by placing the artist's name prominently and the magazine title. The cover features the subject holding her hair, representing overcoming bullying. Costumes and makeup were chosen to look like everyday outfits for teenage girls. While the font, columns, and size of written content conform to standards, the use of three colors in the magazine title is unconventional.

1. Masthead
This is the masthead for my magazine, as you can see it pretty much conforms to the audiences expectations of a
pop magazine. My masthead is placed underneath the artist to allow the audiences to see the artist in this case
Aisha G easily .This is crucial for a pop magazine because they are mainly based around the artist. As you can see
the title dominates over a quarter of the page this allows a definite identification with the audience as they can see
the name of the magazine.
In terms of naming the magazine I wanted to keep it simple and relate to my target audience. During my research I
found that majority of the pop magazine in market incorporate the word pop within the masthead. So feeding off
that I brainstormed a range of potential names till I got to Pop Girls but I realised that a pop magazine already
existed with the exact same name so I replaced to the S to Z to create a edge to my magazine and also separate my
masthead from the existing pop magazine.

2. Mise- en – scene
I choose to look at the front cover of my magazine to highlight the similarities and differences for the mise- en -scene of
my magazine cover and Top of the pops. Firstly we can see that both images include an angle of gaze this is done to allow
the audience to connect with the artist and also it attracts audiences when on the shelf ready for sale. The lighting used
within the images is very neutral which reinforces that the natural girl next door look of the artists. However an aspect
that challenges the conventions of the magazine is the fact that Aisha is holding her hair on the front cover. The main
reason I briefed Aisha to do the particular pose is that I wanted to represent the idea of bullying subtlety as young girls
tend to pull each others hairs in a nasty way when bullying other close peers therefore by briefing Aisha to do this pose on
the front cover I'm getting her to own it which reflects how she's over the past and her troubles.

3. Costume and Props
I have chosen my front cover and double page spread to show the props and the way in which they challenge and follow
the conventions of a pop magazine. In both the front cover and double page spread, first thing about the costumes that
you notice is the simplicity .They were picked so that they looked like the outfits that young teen girls would generally
wear rather than the high end fashion labels. The main research I did before deciding on an outfit with Aisha was
looking at clothing websites like next and new look to see what was on sale currently that targeted my audience. This
allowed me to make an accurate choice on what Aisha should wear .In terms of make up I decided to keep Aisha look
mostly fresh faced but allowed for a tiny bit of foundation just to allow for a more even skin tone and better quality of
pictures.

4. These include the clothing stores I looked at to base Aisha's look
during the photo-shoot on . All clothing stores were mentioned by
12-15 year olds teenage girls as the ones they often visit when
shopping for clothes. By having Aisha wear clothing that was
similar to ones that the clothing stores had in stores allows the
audiences to feel that they could look like Aisha on a daily basis.

5. Written content
The written content of my magazine is essentially conforming to the standard pop magazine article. It uses a range
of language techniques to create a piece of professional writing which would make it appropriate to print
however I still use conversational language to make it seem like the a normal conversation I'm having with Aisha
which is a feature many pop magazines have. To spark the readers interest I have used a pull quote however
looking back I could have made it more bolder by using a darker colour so it could stand out more.
The written content also follows the conventions by being split into columns this is a standard presentational
technique that allows the audience to read the article easily . To follow this up the font size used is 11 this again
follows the conventions of a pop magazine as size 11 is the standard font size within a magazine creating that ease
of reading.

6. The title font and style of my magazine is quite similar to existing pop magazines as it conforms the conventions
because of the bold and bright coloured letters that are used this furthered by the fact I have used a standard
serif font. I think that it was important that I used a standard serif font to keep the magazine look more modern
overall. However I think the fact that I used three colours in text was quite unconventional and not a regular
feature in pop magazine although We love pop does occasionally do it. But during the creating stage I felt that it
was appropriate to use three colours.

7. The title font and style of my magazine is quite similar to existing pop magazines as it conforms the conventions
because of the bold and bright coloured letters that are used this furthered by the fact I have used a standard
serif font. I think that it was important that I used a standard serif font to keep the magazine look more modern
overall. However I think the fact that I used three colours in text was quite unconventional and not a regular
feature in pop magazine although We love pop does occasionally do it. But during the creating stage I felt that it
was appropriate to use three colours.