It is evident that the graphology of the peice is dependant on the demographic of audience; in this case the target audience is clearly teenagers who in turn share an interest in the Pop music genre. The magazine reflects on the genre of popular music by implementing popular colours such as blue and pink; stereotypically blue appeals to boys, therfore pink appeals to girls.
Various fonts, differing in clour and size are used to make the front cover seem bustling and energetic, therfore it will successfully appeal to their teenage target audience whom of which are susceptible to gossiping concerning current affairs within the modern day music industry and consumer culture.
The demographic of audience seem to be rendered or distinguished as followers by the magazine, as if they should aspire to be like and live a lifestyle parallel to those of the featured celebrities, they are essentially viewed as "role models" for today's youth. The caption "Wanna be famous? Your instant guide..." is short yet efficient in provoking attention from it's audience; the colloquial linguistic syle adopted by the magazine mimics the vernacular of modern day teenagers. The celebrties features on the front of the magazine are current, meaning they are constantly within the public eye. The fact that they are features within this magazine provides readers with an up-to-date knowledge and supplement of the latest happenings in the world of pop.
Molly, you are making some very impressive and astute observations on audience in your analysis, but you need to consider so much more than this - actually annotating the image (rather than writing prose) would be helpful in breaking down the codes and conventions of layout and design
ReplyDeleteThe front cover of Top of The Pops magazine adopts a traditional magazine format - the masthead is the name of the magazine traditionally at the top with the central image of Joe Mceldery slightly overlapping the title to show it is the main focus. This is reinforced by the placing of textual information around the image and the allocation of images of the other pop artists that are in fact substantially smaller; this is significant as it conveys the idea that Joe Mceldery is more prominent and "important" than the other featured artists i.e. his mentor Cheryl Cole.
ReplyDeleteMolly Simcox