Research and Planning - Contents page analysis

 

This is a picture of a contents page from top of the pops magazine. I chose to do my analysis on this magazine because the genre is pop and I am thinking about doing a pop music magazine myself. The target audience for this magazine is probably female teenagers aged about 12-17, I think this because it has an image of Justin Bieber on it which will attract lots of teenage girls around this age group. I think the layout of the contents page is good because its sorted into different categories to make things easier to find for example if you wanted to look for the competitions you would look in the box that says 'Wins and offers' and find the pages that have competitions on. Also it includes pictures to give you an idea of what's included in the magazine. I think the magazine is represented to attract a young female audience and to do this it includes quite a bit of pink as pink is seen as a more feminine  colour. Also it includes pictures of boys which suggests it's to attract a female audience. On the contents page there is a medium close up shot used to show part of the boys body which will attract the female audience to find out more about him and see if there are more images. Also it includes an image of what the front looks like, also it tells you what pages the features on the front are on, I think its set out like this because the coverlines/images on the front are what has attracted the audience to get the magazine so it needs to clearly tell them where about in the magazine they are featured.