Research Genre

From looking at different pop magazines I can clearly see that some of the codes and conventions of pop music magazines are…

House style and target audience:  as we can see there seems to be girly colours used throughout e.g. pink and purple. This appeals to the female audience, also we can tell this by the images that have been used as they are of Britney and Preston which are artists that appeal to women rather than men.

Masthead: the masthead of both of these magazines have been written in pink which relates to the rest of the house style and colour scheme on ‘smashhits’ we can see that it has a white backdrop which makes it stand out from the pink background; followed by the ‘top of the pops’ magazine which has been outlined in purple.

Main cover image: as we can see on both magazines that the main cover image is the largest thing on the page this is to draw in the reader’s attention as that is the first thing that you see.

On the front cover of pop magazines there is normally either one image at medium close up, or the front cover is quite busy and full on with lots of images and text and bright colours.