Costume Mood-Board

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme of my magazine will be very busy and full but bold colours will make certain parts stand out over other the top of others and fill the page. This would keep my magazine conventional to the pop music genre. In the example bellow we see only 5 very simple colours and combining this with the many layers of the front page it creates the busyness often seen within pop, that draws in the audience to read further into the page and to the bottom layers of stories and plugs. In my magazine, I hope to use this mass of simple colours as well and to try and fill the pages with images.

Font Ideas

These are fonts I chose out from www.dafont.com, I chose them on a basis of how similar they appeared to be to other font styles of other Pop Music Magazines.

Shot Type Examples

Two Shot - Two people in the same shot, side by side

Group shot - More than two people in the shot

Long Shot - Shows whole body

Posed Shot - The Model is in more of a posed/unnatural position.

Medium Close-up - Shoulder/Chest upwards

Close-up with Bad Framing - Has cropped off the top of the image

Magazine Name Ideas

• Replay - You will want to keep replaying this music, because it's so good.
• Rewind - You will want to listen to this music again, because you will like it so much.
• Repeat - Keeping listening to this sort of music over and over, because it is good.
• Now Music - Modern music  from now. New/in the now. 
• Top - Top of the charts music, New and popular. It's at the top and good.
• Music Now! - Demanding new music, Music 'in the now' and popular.
• Out-Now - New music, recent and popular music just released into the charts.
• Playing - This music is new and popular. Keeps getting played on the radio, it's always playing
• Newphonic - New sounds, Modern up to date music.

 I decided on the name Top. The name is short, snappy and easy to remember which appeals to the younger audience. It also relates to the 'Pop' genre, the name Top it can be related to the charts and the top music at the moment being new and good.

Music Magazine LIIAR Analysis

Language -  The magazine uses both pink and blue as its primary colour scheme; this appeals to both genders and draws them in. However the content of the articles is more focused on females, with a some of the main focuses being on boys, and fashion. 

Ideology -  The magazine uses slang and promotes a very feminine attitude. This will attract the audience to get the magazine bought.

Institution -  Top of the Pops is a BBC branded magazine and Television, both about and playing pop music and the latest music in the charts.

Audience -The audience of this magazine would be teenagers, though predominantly female it would also attract males as well.  The use of slang means that  this young audience can connect to the magazine.  

Representation -  The magazine shows only attractive models/pictures in it, showing the boys to be topless and caught by paparazzi, or posing in a photo shoot. The creates a false representation of the celebrity artists and how they act.

Language -This magazine uses quite a lot of slang and collocations within the text, this is used to connect with the young audience it attracts. The use of simple colors has quite immature connotations, with the younger audience can connect with. The masthead of 'We love Pop' not only does it use a heart instead of the word love, and the use of the word 'we' gives the magazine personalisation that connects the magazine and the reader.

Ideology - The ideology created by this magazine promotes the quite heavy stereotypes of girls, with the focus of the magazine being 'Gossip, Fashion, Boys, Uncensored'

Institution - The magazine Masthead is We love pop, this instantly tells the reader what genre of music the magazine is about how they should love pop, from the use of the word we.

Audience- The audience of this magazine would be of young girls (10-15). The magazine heavily features boy-bands and  girls fashion, and the low price would make it a lot more Continent for younger unemployed people

Representation - The magazine has a quite stereotypical representation of girls, show how they can look better and attractive boys they should admire. The the models in the pictures all look directly towards the camera and at the reader connecting with them.

Language - The background and costume in the image both use a lot of pink. This suggests a quite feminine feeling, this also relates to the flowers which are used for this reason. The placement of the model is in front of the text, to show how important they are and how they are over the top of billboards everywhere. The magazine masthead is 'Billboard', this suggests that the artists inside are on billboards and quite popular.

Ideology - The ideology of the magazine is for it to get bought by people. It does this by using language to attract their target audience. They want to keep people up to date with a the biggest artists.

Institution - Billboard, The name Billboard tells us that these are the sort of artists you would see on big posters, and they are well known.

Audience - This magazine would be targeted towards a younger audience of teenagers to young adults (16-24) using light blue, yellow and pink which are all quite childish colours. They are also the main listeners to pop music

Representation - The use of flowers on the dress suggest how Katy Perry is quite happy and and pretty from the connotations of flowers and their colours. She is also stood a quite a innocent pose as well which suggests her vulnerability.

Target Audience

The Target Audience for my Pop magazine will be teenagers ranging from about 13-16 old. This is based off the sort of people that predominantly listen to pop music. The target audience would be used to decide what adverts to put in the magazine and it would also be used to decide on colour schemes.

http://www.abc.org.uk/certificates/18386730.pdf

The magazine 'We Love Pop' is a pop music magazine targeted at teenagers from 13-16. In a 5 month period from launching they sold 50,505 copies of their magazine. The price of £2.99 is cheap for a monthly magazine, and supports the younger audience with less disposable income.
The magazine is publish by Egmont, and from a news report at launch they commented on how the pop music magazine was a difficult industry, but that they believe the younger target audience will help them succeed.

http://www.qthemusic.com/
Q is another popular music magazine, however Q magazine has a higher age average of 29 and costs £3.50. Its is predominant audience is young male professionals, and the use of multimedia and social-media will help with the relatively young audience in the modern day.