RESEARCHING GENRES

Researching different magazine genres/ sub genres.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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I have chosen to go

for the genre of

RnB/ Hip Hop for

my magazine.

I find that within

these magazines

are some content

coverying personal

life but mostly

covering music.

It mainly sticks to

the conventions of

a music magazine

such as a classic

mast head and

small subheadings

around the main

picture of an artist. I

also like the format

of subheadings as

it is neat.