The document discusses the codes and conventions of pop magazines. Pop magazines typically use bright colors, catchy fonts, and studio photos of artists with plain backgrounds to attract teenage audiences. They focus on clean-cut, perfect images of pop stars. The genres of pop music are also discussed, noting its origins in the 1950s United States and popularity worldwide among teenagers and young audiences. Popular modern pop artists like One Direction and genres like bubblegum pop are mentioned.
2. The codes and conventions for pop are mainly based around
the main image, font, headlines, colour and the masthead.
The colour and the font is because in a pop magazine you
would expect bright colours that stand out and catch your
attention, like, blue, pink, yellow, white and black.
There would also be the photos on the album covers which
will most likely be shot in a studio. They are made to look
very ‘perfect’ and clean cut.
This could make the albums boring to look at because there
is only one person making eye contact with the camera and
there is nothing else going on to catch your attention.
3. Some pop magazines are: -Top Of The Pops
-SHOUT
-Mizz
-Billboard
These link to the above question because they mainly have a
studio shot of the featured person looking at the camera with
a plain background and very bright colours for their font.
5. Pop is a very popular genre. It has a very big audience as it is
well know over the whole world.
The fans tend to be teenagers ranging from the ages 10-16,
although, as they are growing older they are wanting to read
and listen to a more mature version of pop whereas the
younger ages will listen to the groups and solo artists that
older teenagers will not like.
6. Pop is distinguished by its clean cut, ‘perfect’ looking bands
and solo artists who all have a very big fan base and are able
to sell out concerts. It is also spotted by its more up beat
music that appeals to the younger generations.
7. Pop music originated in its modern form in the 1950s in the
United States. There are different types of pop, such as:
Bubblegum pop
Teen pop
Traditional pop
Power pop
Sunshine pop
They founded the word ‘pop’ from the word ‘popular’.
Pop dates back to the Victorian era where people would need
a catchy song to be made identifiable.
8. Who has the biggest profile? How do you know?
Key artists in the development of pop are bands such as; The
Crooners, who were around in the 1940’s and 50’s, Bing
Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
Then came along the bands such as, Take That, The Spice
Girls and Backstreet boys.
Then members of the bands realised that they could have
solo careers, so artists like Robbie Williams and Justin
Timberlake left for solo careers. Some of the key artists now
are Sam Smith, Ella Henderson, One Direction and Little Mix.
I think the recent artists have the biggest profile because
people are wanting new music to listen to.
9. Pop is a very popular genre which is very mainstream as it is
known around the whole world and it has a very big fan base.
I don’t think there is a good or bad perception of pop
because some people like it and some people don’t so it is
hard to say what the general perception of pop is.
10. Other media’s that cover the pop genre are the radio and TV.
Radio’s such as Radio 1 and heart play pop music daily and
they have the charts every Sunday which are mostly all pop
songs. The TV has music channels where they have programs
which play the most listened to pop songs and they are also
shown with there music videos.
