How my pop magazine represents people:

By Kellie Willows

Representation through fonts:

The use of fonts in my magazine help to show conventional representations of my magazine and the pop artists that are featured inside. All of the fonts that I have used throughout my magazine are feminine through the use of serif style font or through the use of a bright feminine colour. The majority of my magazine is in Serif font, however if the text is not in this style font there is a feminine colour used such as pink or yellow to represent my magazine as very feminine and bright.

By including Serif bold font is represents the artists that are featured inside as friendly and confident artists which is conventional for the pop genre.

Representation through colours:

The colours that I have used in the magazine help to create conventional representations of my magazine, the colours that I have used throughout my magazine are pinks, purples, greens and yellows.The reason that I chose to use these colours in my magazine is because they are conventional for the genre of my magazine which is pop, these colours all connote friendliness, happiness, femininity and youth which represents my magazine as conventional.

Not only will these colours represent my magazine as conventional and a friendly, feminine magazine but it will also represent all of the artists and celebrities that are featured inside as this as well.The reason why I chose to contrast the colour pink on the background of yellow is to make the writing stand out more and look bolder, this represents the magazine as bold and outgoing and therefore will represent the artists as this too.

Representation through images:

The use of images throughout my magazine build up the conventionalrepresentations of the artists and celebrities that are featured insidemy magazine, the use of close up and low angle shots that are used throughout create a representation of the artists as dominant and friendly. The artists are represented as friendly though the mid and close up shots, this is the way that they are positioned and their facial expressions, for example when the artist shown in the image on the right is smiling it represents them as a very friendly and happy person.

The use of mise-en scene throughout represent the artists for what they are known for, for example if the artist was standing with some make-up or images of make-up next to their image then this represents that they are a make-up artist or a celebrity related to make-up.

Representation through language:

The language that I have used throughout my magazine is informal and chatty, this type of language represents that audience of my magazine as young, friendly and chatty people that are very similar to the readers.

An example of how language is represented in this way is when language such as “Ooops” and “Check this out”. This language is representing a very informal and youthful feel that represents to the audience that it is youth related, informal and very friendly magazine.

Representation through content:

The topics and content of my magazine represents all of the featured artists and celebrities are vey bubbly, lively and sweet people. This is represented through the images and cover stories that are used throughout. For example, the cover story saying “Connor Maynard confesses his true love” represents this artist as being a very cute and sweet young boy that has his first love.

The use of an images on my front cover showing very excited artists that look excited and bubbly represents to the reader that these artists are lively and fun. This representation is also added to through the caption that is used which is “Louis goes nuts”, this represents that this artist is wild and daring.