Top of the Pops ; Double Page Spread Analysis.

This is my analysis for the top of the pops magazines contents.

The choice of band that has been featured in the article is ‘One Direction’. This suggests that the target audience for this magazine is most likely to be teenage girls. This is because one Direction is very popular with teenage girls as they are a new attractive young boy band. The type of language that is used in the article is informal and not very complex; it’s quite basic and appeals to the target audience. An example would be ‘snog’ as this is specific to the style of the magazine, as it has a fun, light hearted nature.. In the article, the colours that are used are fun, there are some bright colours and also they are similar to the colours on the front cover. The colours that are used are blue, yellow, white and black. The style of text that is used for the title, the bands names, and some wuotes that they say is quite feminine and also quite romantic and it relates to the artile as they are talking about flirting and friendships. This article includes four pages, on the first page there is a title and two colours, for the two different subjects that they are talking about. On the second page there is an image of the boy band, and on the 3^rd page there are another two colours for another two subjects that they are talking about. Finally on the fourth page there is another picture of the boys, so roughly overall there are two pages that consist of text and the other two consist of images. The images are so dominant over the article pages as the boys are the main focus and the target audience would want to see them more than read about them. The sort of tone that the magazine is using when addressing the reader is as a close friend and an informed intelligent fan. In this article the band is being presented to the audience through the images as they look very happy and playful. By looking at the images you get a sense of welcome from the boy band and they seem very friendly and fun. The style of the article matches the style of the front cover of the magazine as they both include very fun colours. Also they use the same font. This magazine is most likely to be read by teenagers who are into pop music and boy bands, so therefore the audience reading the magazine will know about all of the music artists involved in the magazine. This means that instead of writing an artist’s full name, the magazine editors are able to use a more informal way to get more comfortable with the audience. The editors use the artist’s first name, as they believe the person reading the magazine will be familiar and will know who it is about.