The HEADER immediately

increases the excitement of the

readers and straight away

encourages them to read on

because the magazine features

The Wanted- a popular band of

the pop genre. It also follows the

consistent bright pink colour

scheme which highlights the

target audience as young girls.

The MASTHEAD clearly stands out of the front cover because it, unconventionally,

does not follow the same colour scheme as the rest of the features of the front cover.

The masthead is a bright sparkly blue, this links in with the fact that this is a Christmas

edition. It is very clear on the page and is positioned in one of the hot spots of the

page making it attract the reader’s attention. Also, the fact that the MASTHEAD is ‘we

*heart* pop’ immediately tells us the genre of the magazine and by using a heart

instead of the word ‘love’; it attracts the target audience because this is seen as cool.

The MAIN COVER LINE relates to the main image and

tells the readers that this is a Christmas special. The

MAIN COVER LINE uses a pun to attract the readers

and to incorporate the two main aspects of this

issue: OllyMurs and Christmas. This creates a sense

of humour and excitement within the target

audience.

The MAIN IMAGE is the feature that immediately

draws the attention of the reader. It is of OLLY MURS,

who as a well-known pop-artist encourages

excitement within the target audience. His direct

mode of address and the fact that he is smiling

suggests that this magazine is relatively tame and

possibly for a younger audience.

The COVER LINES are bright and overwhelming. They

follow a clear colour scheme and there is a number of

them suggesting the content of the magazine will be

full of information. As well as this, the TAGLINES

above the COVER LINES encourage the reader to

want to read the magazine because they give slightly

more detail of the article’s content while the COVER

LINES say who the article will be about. The

TAGLINES however are in a slightly less bold font to

show that they are not the most important aspect of

the front cover.

The magazine actually breaks and

follows the RULE OF THIRDS

convention as, although the main

image and masthead are in the hot

spot areas of the page, the cover

lines and rest of the features fill up

the page completely and there is

very little space that is free of any

information.

This magazine clearly has a NICHE AUDIENCE

of young girls, most likely between the ages

of around 8 to 15. This is evident through

the bright pink colour scheme, the language

used (merry x-murs) is slang which is seen as

cool and the sort of articles mentioned in

the cover lines appeal to young girls whose

role models are pop artists. However, the

fact that the main cover line uses a pun

relating to Christmas widens the target

audience because the majority of the British

population get excited about the thought of

Christmas. As well as this, the fact that the

masthead is in blue suggests that this

magazine is not just for typical ‘girly’ girls.

The DATE, BARCODE and ISSUE

NUMBER follow the rule of thirds

convention because it is placed in

the bottom right corner (the dead

space of the magazine). It is also

essential that these features are

included because they make the

magazine saleable.

OTHER features include the fact

that at the bottom of the

magazine there are not cover

lines but illustrations with

captions at the bottom of the

page. This breaks typical

magazine conventions because

magazine front covers would not

usually have anything in these

‘dead areas’ of the page and if

they did, there would be cover

lines there.

Analysis of music magazine 2 WE POP’