Codes and Conventions of music magazines.

Hii,
Today i have been looking at the code's and convention's of music magazine's. I found out that music magazine's are simliar but not exact to other magazine's such as gossip magazine's. I started of looking at the code's and convention's of Top of the Pops and focused on the music genre pop. I looked at the four main element's of magazine's which are layout, image, text and audience profile. The top of the pop's magazine is very girly in way's in which i will explaine further on. "Girly" suggesting the target audience would be for young girl's. The magazine's colour scheme is very simple using the colour's pink's and white's, this will be representing gender for female's. The layout is very busy and has alot of content idicator's. The layout also isnt very sophisticated showing that it is allocated for a younger generation, because if top of the pop's was very sophisticated the teenager's would have great difficulty understanding the layout and coming to term's with it, as they wouldn't be able to find what they are looking for. Looking at the text of the magazine, i found that they were using "san's serif" which is a very plain rounded text. I found this style of text made it link in with the style of the magazine, as if the magazine used the "serif" style text it would make the text from the magzine out of place, and make the text like it isnt ment to be there. Top of the pop's magazine uses a very gender specific image which tell's the reader the gender which is female. It use's a female artist, dressed up in a "Diva" dress, Lot's of make-up and her hair down straight. I think the reason for this image being used is many young teenage girl's would look up to this singer used on the image and think of her as a role model and aspiration. Also another reason for this image being used is because she is the main article in the magazine. By looking at this magazine you can tell straight away that the target audience is for teenage girls. From looking at the code's and convention's of this magazine, i have found some idea's for my magazine. It has gave me some aspiration as top of the pop's has the same music genre as the one i will use for my magzine, also it has used the same ideas that i will expand on to make my magazine competetive towards other magazine's from the same style of music genre, Pop!