Research & Planning - Double Page Spread Language

The genre of the magazine I am making is pop. I am going to compare it to a rock genre.
I am going to have a pop magazine and a rock magazine and I am going to compare the language on each. 

This is a double page spread of a rock magazine. The magazine has followed the 3 colour rule scheme well as they have used 3 colours; red, white, black - which also fit with the genre. 

This double page spread is of a pop magazine 'we heart pop'. This pop magazine uses pink, light blue, black and white - these colours all fit with the genre of the magazine pop. Rihanna is wearing at white dress which all fits in with the colour scheme.

The language in the rock magazine is more advanced than the language in the pop magazine. This is because they both have completely different target audiences. The rock magazine has a target audience of teenagers from age 16 to early 30's. I think this because as it is more harder rock music not many adults will be listening to this music in their daily lives. The rock magazine uses language like 'as-yet-untitled album will be a vast departure from the epic grandeur and theatrics of 2006's The Black Parade'. With the magazine using language like 'vast', 'grandeur' and 'theatrics', not many people will know the meaning of this language who are at a younger age.

Whereas on the other hand, the pop magazine appeals to a more wider range of their target audience. It will appeal to people from the age of 14 to maybe late 30's. Middle class/working class people. People who are in school, college, university and maybe in jobs or careers. The language this magazine uses is language like 'If you were able to wave a magic pop wand and become any girl in the world, we'd put a tenner on it being Rihanna'. The language it uses is informal and it is 'friendly' with its audience drawing them in to read more on in the article because this is the first sentence it makes the audience think 'why do they think I wish I could be her?'

Also the rock magazine is just two columns of writing about My Chemical Romance bringing out a new album. Where as the pop magazine has the columns about the cover line of the magazine but it also has question and answers which is more appealing to the target audience.

Lastly, the rock magazine uses a lot of pictures to fill in its space but the pop magazine has left space but it has a lot of writing. It has a main image and then an image with a caption. I like the layout of the pop magazine more because I feel it makes the magazine more appealing and more easier to understand. The rock magazine has a lot of pictures placed everywhere and also the length of the sentence line are not the same which also makes it confusing about where the sentence end and start and people may loose their place when reading.