House Styles

When starting to look at house styles, I decided to focus on Top of the Pops magazine which is a well known magazine full of celebrities involved within the pop music sector. What I have noticed when finding these images is that the house style has changed and developed through time and as new celebrities are introduced. The first editions of Top of the Pops had the masthead visible as the magazine had only just came out so the readers needed to recognise that it is a Top of the Pops magazine; however, as the magazine developed the main image started to overlap the masthead as this is what people recognised the Top of the Pops magazine to be like. Below the magazine there is always the main image of the band/celebrity with cover lines surrounding it and freebies being advertised, this makes the magazine more recognisable because if the readers see this every time they buy the magazine it will become easy to know what to look for on the front cover. Even though the main images may be of women, Top of the Pops always put pictures of men on it, which are attractive and that teenagers are into. The colour scheme of the front cover is always bright colours, but colours that represent innocence and joy such as yellow, blue pink, purple. In some cases the magazine cover is red to represent the theme(valentines day) or to suggest that the band/celebrity is being cheeky or mischievous.