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Media language has been used differently to represent/attract the target audience. These magazine covers have been portrayed in different ways.  The 'Top of the Pops' magazine uses a colour palette of pink,reds and purples, this attracts the stereotypical  teenage girls, whereas 'The Source' magazine uses red, black and white, attracting young men in their 20s. The 'Top of the Pops' magazine has a lot of minor images, teasing what is in the magazine. In the other hand, 'The Source' has no other images only the main one.Although, both magazines use a main image of an artist, one being Dr. Dre a medium close-up shot with half of the image cropped and the other being Jessie J with also a medium close-up shot but mostly covered by pop-ups excluding her face. The layout of 'The Source' magazine is very organised with a low amount of lexis and one main image. However the 'Top of the Pops' is very messy and cluttered with loads of lexis...

Mojo Magazine Case Study Mojo Magazine uses media language and genre conventions to attract the target audience. Mojo magazine has a mostly male audience, around 40 years old in the upper-middle class that takes music professionally and recreationally. The main image would appeal to the age, gender and interests of the primary target audience as it is a cleverly edited low angle medium close up of the iconic band Fleetwood Mac. The image at the top is a picture of the band now (since they went back on tour in June 2019), while at the bottom an almost mirror image shows the band as they were 30 years ago; seeing the band like this gives the audience nostalgia and a 'god-like' view since they survived all these years and still can sing. The color palette of the image is monochrome, to attract the older audience that used to listen to Fleetwood Mac and to show how newspapers used to be like due to black and white having a lower cost and sounding more serious. The...

MOJO magazine uses media language and genre conventions to appeal to a specific target audience. They feature a single band(in black and white) on the front cover, and reflect them into their younger age, this connotes that the target audience is quite old. The front cover follows the convention of having a simple colour palette of black white and red.

Institution: Bauer Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac  are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. ...  Fleetwood Mac  was founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick  Fleetwood  and guitarist Jeremy Spencer. Bassist John McVie completed the lineup for their self-titled debut album. Danny Kirwan joined as a third guitarist in 1968. Target audience: 

 The Mojo magazine uses black and white as their main colours to represent how old the target audience is (between 30-50) and to give the sense of oldness by also using the main 70s colours (the time where madonna did music). In the other hand, the Q magazine uses a clean red white and black  which represents a teenager

Masthead Main image Minor images Colour pallet Lexis(teasers) Layout

Who body regulates radio? OfCom                                            Which body regulates newspapers? IPSO Who body regulates television? OfCom                                           Who body regulates films? BBFC Who body regulates games? PEGI Which body regulates adverts? ASA

Music Industry Introduction Top 10  music magazines Circulation (period-on-period change) January - June 2006. 1: Q. 158,271 (-6.1%) 2: Mojo. 121,746 (1.0%) 3: The Fly. 109,734 (1.5%) 4: Uncut. 88,756 (-19.4%) 5: Kerrang! 80,186 (5.3%) 6: New  Musical  Express. 74,206 (-3.4%) 7: Classic Rock. 56,037 (12.0%)