Top of Pops front cover analysis

LIIAR analysis of Pop music magazine

This magazine front cover is featured by Justin Beiber and this will apeal a lot of young girls becaus he has a lot of teen girl fans. The brightness of the cover is quite bright in colours, this connote that the magazine is fun and positive. The use of pink reflects on the audience as because the target audience are young girls and pink represents girls. However if there were different colours like green and brown, the cover wouldn't be so appealing as the colours are dull and boring and will give a different connotation about the magazine. This will also appeal to the audience because of the featured pictures of other young male celebrities and young popular female celebrities as because they've got a new show/songs or even gossip and advice.
The institutional logo is at the top left corner sponsored by BBC, this is conventional as so the audience know where it belongs and what type of magazine it is. the logo is always the same font so that the audience can recognise BBC. The target audience are young teenage girls from 14-19 but the statistics show that the younger audience from the age of 11 like to read Pop, this could be because as they're hitting puberty they feel quite insecure and different so they'd like advice from young female celebrities on how to style and to live a healthy lifestyle so that they can appeal to people. They could use young male celebrities to feature on the cover because young girls go through that phase of fancying good looking boys. The representation of the front cover is very clear as anyone would know who the magazine is targeted at because of the use of pink and pictures of girl clothes. without these pictures it would've been difficult to recognise the target audience.

Conventionally the front cover has a masthead, barcode, date, price, pull quote, sell lines, main image and feature images. Top of Pops also uses page numbers on the cover next to the topic to persuade the audience to buy the magazine and to to read more. The masthead is very bubbly and bold in pink with a white border to make it catchy, the masthead connotes fun and innocent. The main image of Justin... he's stood making direct address connoting confidence his smile is wide this will make the audience happy. The sell lines are in caps to make the magazine look busy and appealing also the font colours are pink and white this is keeping the theme consistant if it was multi coloured font it would give a different connotation and reflect on a much younger audience. I think if there wasn't a barcode the cover would look like a poster. The price and date is very important because the audience will know if it the magazine's old or new. Without these conventions the front cover wouldn't look so exciting and appealing.