Double Page Spread analysis

We love pop is a music magazine aimed at teenage girls aged 12 to 15. It focus’ on pop music and the artists involved in the genre. From a double page spread in a magazine in this genre I would expect to see bright colours, a main image and secondary images of the band/artist featured in the article and pull quotes.

The colour scheme is pink and white; the pink connotes fun and innocence which represents the stereotypical girl that would want to read we love pop and the white is plain and simple to show that the magazine is straight to the point. The main image is of Mindless who are an American boy band that young girls find attractive and be interested in. In the main image and one of the secondary images, all the band members have direct address which makes the reader feel as though the band is talking directly to them, this creates a bond between the reader and their favourite celebrities which is why the girls want to read the magazine. In the other secondary image the band do not have direct address as they are ‘messing around’ so the image is focused on them having fun. The three images show the band having fun and joking around, this shows the reader what the band members are like and will make the reader want to join in and know more about them.

The headline is ‘carrier bag of questions’, it is in the same font as all the main text throughout the magazine to show continuity. The title literally describes exactly what the article is about, this has been done because the target audience is quite young so the simple ideas make it easier for them to read. Each image has a caption describing what the band is doing, this is effective because it gives the reader an idea of how each image links to the article, it also shows readers who don’t know the band what they are like. The typography is bold and rounded like bubble writing, this could be linked to computer fonts as young girls tend to use social networking sites. As it is a question and answers article the majority of the text is black but the questions are in different bright colours to make the difference clear, bright colours have been used to represent the young target audiences ‘fun’ lifestyles.

Pugs have been included to highlight main pull quotes and information from the article; these are effective because if the reader is skim reading the page and sees a pull quote that interests them then they will want to read the full article.

To conclude, the most important features to any magazine double page spread, including this one, are the main image and the secondary images because they catch the reader’s eye and encourage them to read the article and the headline because the reader needs to know what the article is about which is often shown at first glance shown by the headline.