CONVENTIONS OF A POP MAGAZINE

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CONVENTIONS IN A TOP OF THE POPS

MAGAZINE.

Front cover • Masthead

• Coverlines

• Image on front cover (always a famous artist or band)

• The main image is usually a mid-shot with direct eye contact

• Colour scheme

• Follows the route of the eye

• Pull quotes

• See a house style

• Barcode

• Price

• Date

• Issue

• Fashion related bursts

• Headline

• title

slug

Masthead

Coverlines

Famous image of

artist

Barcode

£1.99 Pricecoverline

Pull quote

Close-up

images

Fashionable

clothes

Cover line

WHY MY MAGAZINE FRONT COVER IS

CONVENTIONAL.

My front cover is conventional because is has a similar layout to a top of the pops magazine and

share some of the same conventions. They both have a masthead which is big and bold and in the

colour pink which connotes girlyness which is conventional or the target audience.

Right at the top of the page both have a magazine with a slug at the top which gives more

information to make the magazine more appealing to the target audience.

They also both share pull quotes on the front cover which will grab the readers attention

and make them want to read and buy the magazine. The magazines both

have a main image that takes up about half the page, this image should

conventionally be an image of a well know artist or band in the pop

industry. My image is conventional because the girl is making eye

contact with the camera and smiling, she has long blonde hair and is

wearing make up and fashionable clothes which is conventional for the

target audience as these are the type of people that get there attention

and they want to read about.

OTHER CONVENTIONS I USED.

The use of pull quotes are used in both magazine front covers along side a close up

image, this is conventional because the reader will know who the pull quote is about

and the pictures will be of three well known pop artists so the target audience will

want to read more. Both of the magazine front covers set up an house style, the top

of the pops front cover magazine has set the house style of pink, yellow and white

and my front cover set the house style of blue, pink and white, all these colours are

girly and conventional. Each magazine on the front cover has a little segment on

fashion this is conventional because the target audience being pre-teen are very into

the way they look and want to look like their role models. Both magazines have the

convention that most other magazines have which is a barcode and a price on how

much the magazine costs.

CONTENTS CONVENTIONS

House style

Images-print screen f cover on the contents

Mode of address

Rule of thirds

Page numbers

Sub headings At the top of the page it says “inside your mag” which breaks the convention of a typical

magazine which usually have “contents” or “top of the pops” a the top of the contents

page.

CONTENTS PAGES

Print screen of

front cover

Page numbers

Sub-headings

Heading

CONVENTIONS USED ON THE CONTENTS

PAGE.

For a pop magazine it is conventional to have an editors letter so I have included one

into my contents page. This is conventional because the title says “Hey Girls” which

shows that that my magazine is aimed at mainly girls which I found is accurate through

the research before I made my magazine

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Feature on a well known artist/band

Usually a feature of an image on the front cover

A title that stands out

Written in columns

Interviews

Pull quotes

Slug

My double page spread

Title that stands out

Page

numbers

Interviews

Pull quotes