summarising what i have learnt from textual analysis.

completing the textual analysis tasks i have made me further my knowledge on how to use certain tools and also my knowledge about magazines and the pop industry.
The analysis of the front covers, cover pages, contents page and double page spreads were very helpful for me as i now know what the target audience look for and the important parts and the less important parts of a magazine. I feel a lot more confident when i do my own magazine as i also found out specific details to include and what works well and what should and shouldn't be included.
The task of uses and gratifications theory was very useful and i can apply it to my up coming magazine.
All magazine need to include a theory so by researching into this one as made me more confident when i start my own cover. I will know what needs to be added to fit the demands of the theory and what works well and what doesn't work so well.
I also now know whats popular with my genre and the target audience so i can apply this when designing my own.

uses and gratifications to a pop magazine

In this task I look at a magazine and used the uses and gratifications to analysis it and find out about the throes and what I need to do to apply it to my magazine. I found out what people look at and what should and shouldn't be included.

introduction to uses and gratifications

During this task I look at the introduction of uses and gratifications, i found out the throes and researched into it so I could further my knowledge of the theory and be able to apply it when doing the next task of applying it to magazine.

analysing double page spread X2 Prezi

In this task i analysed to double page spread magazines of the genre pop. I look into the font, colour, target audience, quotes and the celebrities. I look at how the page was set up and what interests the audience the most and whats eye catching and the text it self. I looked at two different ones and presented them both through a prezi.

analysing 2 contents pages with my chosen genre pop

For this task I looked at two different contents pages with my genre of pop. I look at the target audience, the font, colour, who was the main image and what they were trying to get across, how the text is set out and what is included. I looked at two different magazines, Billbaord and Top of the pops.

electropop- subgenre

For this task I have looked at the sub genres of pop, I came across bubble gum pop, country pop, electro pop and a few more; however I have decided to explore the sub genre electropop.
I have researched more into electropop; the history, development, style of music, the target audiences and their influence of other people.

Electropop is a musical genre which combines electronic music and pop music. Electropop songs are electronic and pop songs, and are often with simple, catchy hooks and simple dance beats to the song. The sub genre became very popular during the 1980's and has still remained popular. Electropop began to appear in the late 1970's with the "robot pop" of German band Kraftwerk.

The genre has changed so much, by keeping up with the trends and younger audiences. electronic dance music is now very popular with the current audience. 

There have been many awards for artists that have produced electropop. For example calvin Harris won 2 MTV awards in 2012, one being for his music video of the year and the other one being best video of electronic single. Avicii has also won many awards regarding electronic music. 


Electropop was mostly played in clubs this is where people would hear the songs when there out, and then it would become more and more popular. Now people listen to electropop music on spotify and other music apps. 

There a different kind of magazines that are specific to this sub genre, an example is MixMag.  MixMag is a British music magazine which has aspects that focus on the sub genre electropop, which is also electric dance music. 

There are many electropop music wrists such as Lady Gaga, Kesha, David Bowie, Madonna.

The type of people that are mostly likely to listen to Electropop music are men ages 18-24.

analysing 2 front covers magazines of the chosen genre - pop.