‘We love pop’ has a target audience of teenage girls who love the latest gossip from all the biggest pop artists. The ‘we love pop’ double page spread is mainly focusing on ‘Tulisa’, a former member from the band ‘N-Dubz’ and a current X factor judge. The main text story is a conversation interview, having a casual chat about what Tulisa thinks about the ‘banter’ they have in the X factor and what she thinks about other celebrities she is friends with. The tone of the interview is informal because it is a chatty gossip interview, so phrases like 'You only have to sit down for a biscuit with Tulisa.' is persuasive and informal.
Q’ magazine’s double spread's target audience is mainly men who like rock music and who are maybe interested in the celebrities Biffy Clyro, Simon Neil, and Ben and James Johnston. Also, just like the ‘we love pop’ magazine, the main text on the double page spread is a conversation interview. This is personal towards the audience, because although it is a conversation between two people not reading the article, quotes from celebrities make the reader more involved. Words like "What are you having?" is a personal question which relate to the audience. This double page spread text is also informal, and use words that could only be understood if you knew about the subject; such as 'just don't challenge them to a game of Hotel'. If you didn't know the subject of the conversation before, it may be hard to understand.
The pictures spread across the 'We love pop!' page spreads are quite similar. Because the story across the pages mainly focus on Tulisa, all of the pictures are either her on her own, or with another well known celebrity friend. These have been put on the page between parts of texts to again remind the reader what the main story is about. A mixture of posed individual shots and group pictures have been put on the pages for varied effect, but the biggest pictures seem to be the ones of just Tulisa, which are long body shots The little pictures have been used to support parts of the conversation. For example, Tulisa is asked whether she knows a member of One Direction; Harry Styles, and in the middle of the paragraph about that, a picture of them both has been placed for entertainment purposes and to back up the story.
However, the Q double page spread pictures are different. The only picture on the spread is the big one on the back which takes up the whole of a page. The picture is of three men, who are seen as having a party, with lots of alcohol, no tops on not really caring about the mess. On the bottom right hand corner of the picture, the words 'having a quiet night in in front of the X factor', is using sarcasm which goes against what the picture shoes.
The last feature to analyse on these two double page spreads, are the layouts. The 'we love pop!' page spreads the layout is set out a lot like a newspaper article. With the headline along the top and a smaller font quote telling us more information on the story. Below the headline, a picture is in the middle of the circle of text and the layout of this page makes the picture stand out, and suggest the text links to what the picture shows. Underneath the picture was a quote from the text, again hinting parts of the story to make the reader eager to read it. The second page is a big whole page spread picture of Tulisa, and the third page of the spread, the text is down the right hand side with a total of 7 pictures, that overlap over each other a bit, all the pictures are different sizes, the biggest one being the one of Aston Merrygold and Tulisa. The last page layout is quite similar to the third one which is again a big picture (Of Tulisa), a smaller picture of Harry and Tulisa, with text on the right hand side going down.
In the Q double page spread, the layout is quite simple. There are no images on the first page and the text is set out again like a newspaper article. The text is written in 2 columns and takes about about three quarters of the page. Like the 'we love pop!' first page, the main headline 'Biffy Clyro' is central along the top, with smaller font below it explaining more about the article. The text layout has been set out with interview names, with the speech next to the celebrities initials and the question they are being asked above it.
From looking and analysing both magazine double page spreads, i have learnt that more information has to be included than i thought and that the pictures have to be completely relevant, otherwise the reader will not be interested or think that the pictures used are boring and unnecessary. I have also learnt from these double page spreads, however the article is laid out, my text i produce for my music magazine should be stories that will entertain the reader and make them want to carry on reading it.
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