For my final analysis of a existing music magazine I have decided to look at my chosen music genre again to analyse a magazine from this category. I have decided to choose Top of The Pops magazine because it is based around pop music but is aimed at the younger audience such as under 15's. Eventhough my magazine is going to be aimed at the 15-24 year old age range this magazine is still ok to produce my analysis on because its still under the influence of pop music.
Front cover
Language-The front cover of this magazine is crammed with lots of media language. Along the top of the magazine is the masthead which is in a pink font all in small lettering. Around the title of the masthead there is a white border that outlines the lettering. These same pink and white colours are used for the logo which is situated at the top right of the magazine cover. The background colour that is used is again the same pink colour. This shows a consistent format and shows that there is a connection between the colours been used. In the top left of the corner a small BBC logo is there. This is called a ident and is placed there because the magazine is related to the BBC. A few years ago a show called Top of The Pops aired on the BBC, a magazine with the same name was also produced. After the programme finished on air, the magazine still carried on and is still published today.
The front cover of this magazine is also shown as a contents page. On the cover there is images and text of what is going to be in this edition of the magazine, with the page number next to each of them. I can identify that this could be classed as a contents page because when scanning through the magazine there is no contents page included. There is one main image in the middle of the page. Then placed on top of this image is a large pink and white circle with large bold white text in it. The text says "Justin's body hang-ups!", this headline is an interesting feature to advertise to the viewers, as this will be aimed to attract the target audience of the magazine. Underneath this is a quote from what is in the story inside the magazine, this will interest the audience as it will draw them in to read more. Next to this is the page number of this main feature, and all features contained on the front page have a page number placed next to them. On the left hand side of the magazine there is a sub-feature which is a picture of a current boy band that is appearing on the X factor. Underneath this image there is a caption which states there is pics inside of the magazine of the group, this is attractive to the audience as it will make them want to buy the magazine to look at the group. Also, on the left hand side of the cover there is a box that contains information, about a real life story, this is a good feature to use as it could relate to real life issues of people in the age range. At the bottom left hand side there is a image of a boy band member from JLS, there is a quote from a story contained in the magazine.
At the right hand side of the magazine is a image of Cheryl Cole who is a celebrity idol. There are images of clothing and accessories you can buy to look like this celebrity. This is a good feature to put on the magazine as it will attract the younger audience as they see her as an idol and they can compare to her buy dressing like her. Again next to the image white writing is used, which is consistent to other writing used on the cover. Underneath this there is a pale pink box with another feature and caption. Again placed central at the bottom of the magazine is another feature with a caption next to it. Other media language used is the bar code, price, issue number, and the date released and end date.
Ideology-The meaning behind this magazine is that the magazine is trying to put across stories that would be relevant to the target audience. The people who are contained on the front cover are artists that are seen in the public eye frequently. With doing further research into the ideology of the magazine I have found out that the magazine is read by girls a lot more then boys, on a percentage of 82%-18%. I have also found out that the average age range of reading this magazine is 11-15 years. This tells me that the main focus is to aim this magazine at a young female audience. By using male attractive artists it will attract the audience to buy the magazine.
Institution-After researching the Internet I have found out that BBC magazines publish this magazine. After further research I found out that they don't publish any other music magazines.
Audience-The audience that this magazine aims at is around the age mark of 11-15 years old and its is predominately bought by the female sex.
Representation-This magazine is represented by the types of artists used on the cover, these artists that can be identified by the music genre. There all smiling which shows there represented in a positive light and are fun and laid back.
Contents Page
As there is no contents page in this magazine, I can't produce a analysis for it. But in my front cover analysis I have talked about how this can be seen as a contents page.
Double Page Spread
Language-The language on the double page spread is a headline of "Bieber's body", this is in the same pink writing used on the front cover of the magazine. Above this is black text that has the style of handwriting that says crazy about, so the headline therefore reads "crazy about Biebers body". This headline will attract the audience as he is seen as a great singer from the younger audience. Underneath this is black lettering this is a strapline of the article what is to follow. This article is different to any I have previously looked like as it is layed out and presented in a different way. The article is about the features of the male singer. There is a main image in the middle of the page of Justin Bieber (the artist) coming off this is pink arrows leading to pink boxes. In each of these pink boxes viewers of the magazine have wrote in commenting about these features. The features are his eyes, noes, muscles,hands, feet, legs, mouth, ears and hair. Then underneath of these pink boxes is lyrics from his songs, which go with that particular feature. The way this article is set out and what the content is about is related to the age range the magazine is aimed at. There is also smaller image of his feet, muscles and ears to illustrate the wording in each of the pink boxes. Other media language used is the page numbers are highlighted in a white triangle with bold black text. Also, at the bottom right of the page there is a puff. A puff is when the magazine places a promotion inside of it about a product or service. In this case it is talking about the artists website and when his album is going to be released. This again is highlighted in the same pink font.
Ideology-The meaning behind this article is getting across the points of the viewers and what they think of the artist who the article is about.Institution-After researching the Internet I have found out that BBC magazines publish this magazine. After further research I found out that they don't publish any other music magazines.
Audience-The audience that this magazine aims at is around the age mark of 12 years old and its is predominately bought by the female sex. The audience of this article is made clear by the ages of the viewers who wrote in to the magazine they vary from age of 9-15 year old.
Representation-This magazine article is represented in a positive way as the artist is smiling, presenting himself in a happy casual way. This image and how it is represented, is similar to the main image on the front cover.
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