The document analyzes and compares three music magazine genres - Top of the Pops, MixMag, and We Love Pop. Top of the Pops targets teenage girls with its pink color scheme and feminine fonts. It presents artists in a happy tone and includes subheadings about clothing trends. MixMag targets young males aged 16-30 with its black, grey, and white color scheme and picture of a well-known band. It portrays artists as older and sophisticated. We Love Pop targets young female teens/tweens with its pink color scheme and picture of Taylor Swift. It presents artists as overly happy and includes subheadings about their personal lives rather than music.

1. RESEARCHING GENRES
Researching different magazine genres/ sub genres.

2. The target audience of
Top of the Pops magazine
is young/ teenage girls.
This is clearthrough the
colour scheme of pink,
yellow, red and white and
the use of fonts as they
come across quite
feminine.
TOP OF THE POPS
Artists are presented in a
happy tone or a rather
silly tone as most artists
displayed on the
magazine are either
smiling or pulling a light
hearted, fun face.
They use the classic
convention of a masthead
and subheadings paired
with pictures. The format
is slightly different to that
of other magazines as
there is a grid showing
other artists/ celebrities
to be featured in the
magazine without any
subheadings as to what
their part in the magazine
will include. As a music
magazine they do slightly
break conventions of a
strictly music only
magazine as they include
a fairly large subheading
referring to clothing
trends.

3. MIXMAG
The target audience of
MixMag are young males
ranging from the age of
16/17-30. This is clear
from the picture used on
the front of the magazine
which is a well known
band of this particular
music genre and the
colour scheme of black,
white and grey are more
manly than feminine. The
layout is presented in a
block form. The font is
simple and consists of the
basic colour scheme
colour mentioned
previously.
The artists are presented
as older and
sophisticated. As a
collective band, the
artists are portrayed as
quirky within the picture
as they are wearing a
mixture of sporting
clothes, as musicians.
The magazine sticks to
conventions of a music
magazine as when there
are subheadings under
the band names etc, it
sticks to a topic involving
music and not their
personal lives etc as other
magazines such as Top of
the Pops does.

4. The target audience of ‘We Love
Pop’ are young female
teens/tweens. This is clear from
the picture used on the front of
the magazine which is a well
known international,
commercial artist of this
particular music genre and the
colour scheme of black, white,
yellow and mainly pink are very
feminine. The layout is
presented in a collage/ speech
bubble form. The font is simple
and consists of the basic colour
scheme colour mentioned
previously.
WE LOVE POP
The artists are presented as
cheesy and overly happy. Taylor
Swift, the female who features
on the front cover, is seen doing
a “shocked” face which is fairly
cringe and cheesy.
The magazine sticks to
conventions of a music
magazine as there is a big
masthead however it slightly
breaks conventions as the mast
head isn’t in the normal place of
horizontally at the top of the
page. When there are
subheadings under the band
names etc, it doesn't normally
speak of the music but the
personal lives of the artists. This
pop magazine particularly
appeals to the younger females
as it includes a freebie attached
to the front of the magazine
which is a make up set in this
case- obviously only applying to
young females rather than
males or older females.