In this PowerPoint pI have done research on: 1. Examples of different front covers 2. How pop Magazine’s engage and interest pop music fans 3. Magazine Features – Elements of the Pop Music Genre 4. Audience Expectations – Pop Music 5. How does this research can help me in my own production of a pop music magazine and so much more.

2.  Examples of different front covers
 Discussion of font, images and style
 Discussion of how front covers connotate the genre of pop music
 How pop Magazine’s engage and interest pop music fans
 Magazine Features – Elements of the Pop Music Genre
 Audience Expectations – Pop Music
 Pop Music: main features that often appear in existing magazines
 How does this research can help me in my own production of a pop music
magazine

3. Pop magazines front covers.
They demonstrate the conventions that
every pop magazine has.

4.  In the magazine Billboard, for
example, the font used for the
magazine title consist on: the B being
in capital and the rest of the word
being in lower case.
 Additionally the name of the magazine
is almost always behind the image of
the artist on the front cover. This could
suggest that the magazine is so well
know that, consumers don’t need to
see the whole name to know what
magazine it is.
 Some magazines have logos that make
them more recognizable. This means that
the audience and readers, will be able to
pick out their favourite brand very easily.
 The colours chosen for front covers vary
between magazines.
 For example Billboard magazine’s
background colours are always different
and also the colour used for the name, of
the magazine changes. On the other hand
the colours black and white are always
used on the front covers of Billboard’s
magazine.

5.  On the front of the magazines, there is usually the
main image of famous pop artist or pop group. This
immediately depicts the purpose of the magazine,
making it obvious to the audience.
 The genre of pop music is conveyed thought
the clothes that the artist wear, in the picture,
and the way the artist look.
 The colours of cloths that pop artist were is
stereotypically, mainly bright colour. Therefore
this are the colours that are used in many Rock
magazines.
 On the other hand, sometime, pop artists do
where dark colours such as black.

6.  On the front cover there are
headlines, or images, of articles
that are about other pop artists:
which are used to inform the
audience about what is happening
with other members of the pop
music world. This will attract more
consumers to read and buy the
magazine.
 The bright colours used, by pop
magazines, is the first identifier of
the pop genre. Another identifier is
the cloths that the artist, on the
front covers, wear are in line with
the ideas of how a pop artist is
said to dress.
 The type of article and the style of writing
used in pop magazine varies depending
on the target audience of the magazine.
 If the magazine is amid at teenagers the
language used could be more colloquial,
compared to the language used in a
magazine aimed at adults.
 The style of writing used, on front covers
is block letters and not cursive.
 This not only grabs the reader’s attention,
but it also allows the audience to read the
headlines more easily: further deepening
their interest in the magazine.

7.  The colours that Justin Bieber is
dressed in and the colours used in the
article are purposefully made the
same. This create the magazine’s
brand Identity
 The headlines are written in a different
colour to highlight their importance.
 Also colours used attract the attention of the
magazine’s audience.
 This means once they have read the
heading the audience will want to read the
rest of the article

8.  The Lay out of the Article is done in
away that: the attention of the audience
is drawn to the article first then the
picture of Justin.
 For example the placement of Justin’s
‘dressing room demands’, attracts
attention to the article.
 The picture of Selina and Justin
is another thing that, is used to
hook and rail in people’s
attention to the article.

9.  There a certain elements that the audience expects a pop magazine to
have.
 The audience expect magazines to talk about the most popular pop artist at
the moment, upcoming tours and concerts.
 In our time the audience expect music magazines to have some amount of
gossip about artist’s private life.
 When it comes to the colors used for magazine the expectations changes
based on the target audience. Teens expect magazines to be bright and
colorful, whilst adults don’t necessarily want that.

10.  There are many pop music artist that
are featured on music magazines.
One example of a pop music artist,
that is repetitively on magazine covers
is Taylor Swift.
 Many of the articles talk about her and
her life: how she grew up in the public
eye, what her relationship status is or
how her music is going.

11.  By doing this research I now know who to use the
conventions of a pop magazine and elements of the pop
music genre.
 Also I have learnt how to use font, style and image to attract
my target audience.
 Furthermore I have also learnt what I need to do to engage
and interest pop music fans that might read my magazine.