Research & Planning: Music Contents Page Analysis.

Aspects to Analyse.

• Audience
• Genre
• Representation
• Layout & Media Studies

This content page is aimed at Teenagers around 11-16 years of age. I can tell this by the choice of images, the  artists are teen icons and very young and they are all smiling and perceived as bright, happy and full of life which teenagers in our days typically should be feeling considering they have a certain freedom of life. Also, the colours chosen are very bright (they follow the 3 colour rule), Pink, Green and Blue. The shade of all three of these colours dip into the pastel shade, which is also reflective on the teenage age and the genre pop.

The genre of this contents page is clearly pop. I can tell this by the use of house style/the colour scheme, it consists of light/pastel shades of the colours: Green, Pink and Blue which also follows the 3 colour rule in a magazine. The iconic artists also allude to the type of genre, as Taylor Swift, although she used to be in the Country genre of music, has recently transitioned to pop music and is a perfect face to represent the genre pop as her songs are listened too - particularly by young girls - very frequently and many people know of her as an artist.

The layout of the contents page is set into three columns, which is what a typically magazine should follow when creating a contents page. The numbers which label the information within the contents page and the magazine are very clear, rounded which can be perceived as more feminine and the numbers are all on the left of the information in each column, staying true to the structure which is created with these columns. Also, there are multiple images scattered around the contents page, effectively filling in any gaps within the page which is great because a pop magazine is usually seen as quite cluttered and busy within the whole magazine and images are a very effective way to rectify this.