My first option, ‘Pop addiction’. ‘Pop’ is inserted with in the Masthead because it straight away highlights my genre of magazine. ‘addicted’, a strong powerful word to express what pop does to one who experiences it. Once you have read this magazine purely on pop, you shall love the genre, and never want to stop reading ‘Pop addiction’ magazines.

As portrayed, the two words are in different colours to highlight the importance of each of them. Labelling pop in a pink colour is important so that the viewer knows what genre of magazine this is. ‘Addiction’ was inserted to provide the implication that the genre and this magazine as a whole is so intriguing, everyone will love it.

My second option ‘Pop PARTY’, this mast head holds great potential as a masthead for my magazine due to its, font, colour, and size. It holds great elements of bubbliness and enthusiasm. These elements are key on the front of a pop magazine cover and especially in the masthead. With the masthead being the first insert on the cover for the viewer to read, it gives off immediate exiting and happy vibe. ‘Pop PARTY’ is alliteration therefore gives off an easy yet affective read, a role off the tongue like sentence. potentially persuading the viewer to consider buying it.

The noun ‘PARTY’, suggests that this magazine is fun/thrilling/exciting like a party. This is inserted because when read, ones automatic thoughts are of these themes. This is a huge pull factor put in place rather tactically in order to persuade reader to buy the magazine.

The world of pop was the third Masthead I created on Photoshop which is differs from the other mastheads options. However it is still very much a plausible option to consider. ‘The world of Pop’, once again I have inserted pop with in this mast head to present to the viewers exactly what this magazine specifies in. This Masthead is a little longer than my other creations, yet all words holds specific and key reason as to why they are existent. Such as, ‘world’ purifies the fact that although this magazine has a pop genre focus.. It includes everybody's interests. For instances, interviews with many artist a related to this style of music, images of instruments and artists, detailed DPS’s etc…

The forms of editing I have inserted with in this piece of text is, a bluey purple like colour, bubble writing, and capital letters giving off a beautiful presentation and framing the important words.

Fourthly, ‘pop’s Plenty’ was designed as a viable option for my masthead for my magazine. A viewer craves an easy read yet an enjoyable read so what better way to start off my magazine experience by adding a quick, snappy, catchy masthead involving alliteration. What is implied by this statement, is that my magazine holds everything great or little to do with the pop genre. Artist, big hits, images and so much more. Immediately it targets pop fans due to ‘pop’ being the first word a viewer will read when viewing the cover. ‘Plenty’ doesn’t just compliment pop due to the alliteration, it indicates that one can never get enough of the pop genre therefore by purchasing this magazine, you shall experience everything to do with pop.

For the presentation of this masthead, I have included some interesting and unique word art. To make the masthead more visible to citizens, it holds a rather bland main colour of turquoise then has a strong bald black outer layering the letters. The explanation mark is also new in this design because what better way to catch the audiences attention other than adding punctuation which portrays the importance of this head line.

‘OTTP’ was an idea presented in my direction by the magazine make ‘Q’. I used this as inspiration and figured that maybe letter/s that stand for something maybe a bit more appealing to viewers. ‘OTTP’ stands for over the top pop. There are so many reasons as to why this I a strong option for my magazine’s masthead. For example, Rhyme springs out towards the end of this title with ‘top’ and ‘Pop’, this portrays a huge amount of rhythm when spoken therefore encourages the reader to perhaps consider purchasing this magazine.

Once again, the bald outer layering of the letters was found most affective because this masthead is a lot shorter that my other designs therefore I felt it needed to gain some further strength to become more visible. Also due to the plain light purple inner colour to the lettering, it was in severe need of spicing up a little. Hence the choice of font as well, the dot in the centre of the ‘O’ allows the mast head to be more fit to be seen.

‘Teen pop’ is extremely different to my other designs, it has smaller text for example however, has no less importance. This Masthead is going to be positioned in the top left corner of the cover page but due to the colour it appears very visible. I have inserted ‘pop’ to state and clarify what this magazine is about and ‘teen’ frames my target audience. Stereo typically, Pop is loved, admired and listened to by the younger generation therefore I found it key to include a target audience. The colours also complimentary to the target audience because the bright yellow and pink text printed onto the light orange background portrays a cheerful and exciteful theme. What pop loving teenager would view this and think twice about purchasing the magazine?

‘SIMPLY POP’ is a great idea for a masthead, the design is large, in capitals so it is made more visible, colourful to back up the idea of an exciting, fun, pop genre. The size also is a big contributor to the effectiveness, this Masthead creation shall be situated across the entire page at the top of the cover so that it is read firstly. Again, ‘Pop’ is mentioned to rapidly skip to the point of this magazine. But ‘SIMPLY’ holds a greater reason for its being. Who doesn’t want a simple life? By purchasing this magazine not only shall you receive the best pop experience filled with education, fun facts, articles, detail, interviews, images and so on… One shall experience it all simply.

My final design was ‘NON STOP POP’, after coming up with this plausible option, I believe this is one of my strongest due to the Rhyme involved. Once spoken, it roles off the tongue bringing an instant pleasure. Also, the style linked with the colour is highly affective. On the dark background, the different colour words release a highlighted affect to portray importance to each individual word. There is not one colour that does not go well with the dark shade of black. Also, with this sort of style, it is eye catching due to the strong colours especially because this Mast head is designed to run straight across the top of the page.

The bubble writing with the bubble back ground releases a fun, child like theme which helps portray the genre Pop in its true form.