I've been able to meet the specific codes and conventions that are present in existing music magazines

Developing forms of representation Facial expressions and postureWhen male artists are featured in K-Pop magazines, They tend to have quite confident postures in order to appeal to female audiences for the sake of the female gaze. Despite the flawless skin and healthy thin figures. Male artists display manly facial expressions in order to captivate the hearts of their fans. Gestures such as lip swiping, neck grabbing or head tilts are common poses used by male idols. Poses that were used by existing artists featured in K-Pop magazines such as @Star1 and STARAZ influenced my choice of poses for models in order to accurately display representations of male idols.

Developing Forms of representationsLittle or no negative spaceWith existing western pop magazines such as WeLovePop and eastern pop magazines such as Bromide. I’ve also been able to display how there’s constant saturation of bright colours, shapes and sell lines. The composition of all my sell lines allows the focus of the reader to be placed on the model since all negative space is covered by these sell lines. The same applies to my double page spread. There are many bold shapes which are part of the aesthetics of the page which was inspired from existing DPS’ by WeLovePop magazine. Images Are also very dominating in my article. Which was influenced by an existing article by Bromide Magazine. Most pop magazines are dominatedby pictures and so, I haveContinuously developedForms of hegemonic Representations of the K-Pop music genre.

Challenging forms of representationsOrganised LayoutMy DPS followed a more western layout with no box images. This isn’t the case for K-Pop magazines as shown be a DPS from POPCORN magazine. The box images are vastly used throughout the DPS whereas all backgrounds were removed from my images and I placed text around these images rather then placing them elsewhere. The layout I used is more common with other music genres but isn’t the case for most pop magazines which exist especially for the K-Pop music genre. It could be argued that more contemporary pop magazines are joining the mainstream layouts used by other music genres which can be seen on the articles below.

Why develop/challenge representations?

As I’m branching out to a UK K-Pop audience I’ve hybridised some aspects of the traditional conventions that audiences would expect

from a K-Pop music genre. I have mainly maintained most conventions because these are what appeal audiences to the genre such as the poses and the gestures of artists. However the purpose

of challenging representations such as the layout of a pop magazine is to hybridise the traditional aspect of a pop magazine in

order to suit a more western and contemporary audience. This is necessary because from my magazine survey, most stated they were at the age of 14-18. which is the desirable age for a K-Pop

target audience so having a contemporary layout which is organised would be appropriate in order for audiences to buy my

media product if all conventions appeals to my audience.