Top of the Pops Magazine

I have chosen to research the Top of the Pops magazine This is the front cover. It has a masthead which is white and glittery pink. It also has a ident which is a logo. This logo is an advantage for the magazine because its something that the audience will remember and recognise. The main image is of the High School Musical cast. This musical is well known and popular for teenage audiences so this will get their attentions. Zac Efron is considered to be the best looking thing to most teenage girls so him alone will grab teenage girls attention. Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale are a good idea to include on the front because young girls look up to them. The white dress Vanessa is wearing connotes innocence. Including Lucas Grabeel is giving diversity as he plays a gay character in the musical. This is showing that the magazine wants a larger audience as they could want them to relate to the actors/singers. The colours used are light, bold, glittery, pink, purple, white and yellow. All these colours are 'girly' which shows they are targetting a female audience. Including extras in the magazine such as 'celebrity love secrets' is making the magazine more interesting.

This is a double spread page from the magazine. The story is focusing on the musical Camp Rock. The right page has a large image of The Jonas Brothers who are a band who stared in the band. As both they and the film are popular, this will grab the attentions of female audiences. They are all looking directly at the camera which looks like they're engaging with the readers. The main girl from the musical isn't included in the large image even though she is the main character, this could be because the magazine is using the boys to grab the attention of female teenage audiences. At the bottom of the page they have included a message from the singers. This gets the audience to be more involved.

There is a contrast between this magazine and a rock magazine. This magazine is bright and using the colours to connote pop music as if you think of pop you can imagine all bright colours and cheesy music videos etc. I have found out that rock magazines use darker colours. Both music genres are completely different from each other, this is why the magazines are completely different so the audience can identify them straight away. Other magazines such as Smash Hits can relate with Top of the Pops as they use the same type of artists e.g. Girls aloud and the same type of features. Classic Rock can't really relate to any other magazine because its more about older rock music rather than NME which provides us with more of Indie Rock.