Reserch of Music Magazines

This prezi is about music genres and types of magazines with in them genres


Analysis of a front cover, double page spread and a contents page:

This is an essay discussing the representation of people in my chosen genre of music magazine. My chosen genre of music magazine is pop and its target audience is young teenage girls aged around 13-15. 

Generally mise-en-scene of the main cover image and the double page spread image are that the model is generally posing in a rather ‘cutsey’ pose with a smiling, cheeky expression. As well as this they are generally dressed in really girly, fashionable clothes and props like camera’s can be used. This represents the target audience to be cute, girly and fun as well as this it also represents the musician to be like this as well. For example We Love Pop use Cher Llyod in their double page spread, she is doing a cute pose (taking a picture with a camera) this image perceives her to be cute, fun and cheeky however this is not generally the way she is in real life, its just the way the magazine wants you to see her. 

Also pop magazines aimed at the same target audience as me generally use the colour pink, which is stereotypically a girly colour. This gives the representation that the target audience are all into the colour pink and no other colour, which is obviously not true but it is seen as the most appealing colour to a teenage girl as magazines are always using the colour pink magazines such as: we Love Pop and Tops of the Pops. 

They also include, in terms of context, gossip and fashion these elements aren’t so much music related however they must appeal to target audience otherwise why would magazines include them. The fact they include gossip and fashion gives the representation that my target audience are to some degree appearance conscious and nosey into the lives of others. 

Overall pop magazines portray my target audience for my pop magazine to be vein, nosey, girly, cute and fun through a range of different ways ( colour, main images, contents).

Web-based research into target audience: 

We Love Pop: 


We Love Pop's homepage online contains nothing but gossip suggesting target audience to be interested in gossip perhaps into the lives of others especially celebrities. This could be backed up by the fact we as humans like to diverge from our to day to day lives especially into the lives of others. 

They also include linked cover lines on competitions, this shows that target audience are interested in winning things, perhaps because self consciously its known that winning something makes you feel better about yourself as well as target audience not actually being old enough to have a job, so having the chance to win something for free is very appealing.



In addition to this they mention getting your dad to 'swing' buy the shop to get you the magazine. This shows vulnerability and neediness with in my target audience, it shows that they are not quite independent enough to buy something their self. In addition to this the fact it says dad could be linked to saying 'daddy's girl' and the fact that 'daddy will buy you everything', showing that perhaps teenage girls can generally get what they want when asking 'daddy.'




Lastly the use of colour such as pink suggests that this is a popular colour of a girl, which stereotypically pink is associated with pink. However this just proves that pink is a colour that would more than likely appeal to a teenage girl otherwise why would We Love Pop use it? 






Questionnaire (for and answered by target audience):

These results shows that target audience's favourite colour is pink due to all five girls saying they liked the colour pink the most. It also shows that they are interested in gossip, celebs and fashion. In addition to this it shows that they would generally like to read about boys as 3 people spoke about boys, this proves that girls like talking about boys. Lastly it shows that all but one don't read music magazines so in order to appeal to this target audience a pop magazine such as We Love Pop needs to include gossip, boys, pink more over music in some cases to appeal to their target audience.