Top of the Pops - "Hot Bods" double page spread analysis

The title of the article is “Hot Bods” and in the centre of the letter “O”, in the word bods, there is a stick drawing of a male figure, this automatically tells the reader that the article is to do with male bodies. The caption beneath the title says “Hurray! Here’s 11 hunks (and one old man) who’ve dared to bare, just for you!” The first three words are alliteration which gives the caption more rhythm which introduces a bouncy happy tone to the feature. The text is addressing the reader directly and involves the reader “just for you”. There is a bubble next to the title with “100% sizzling!” printed inside it. This is a technique used to grab the reader’s attention as the bubble is bold and stands out from the rest of the text and is used to excite the reader. The language used is very childish and cheesy, “hunk”, which I believe makes the audience feel more grown up as the words are not sophisticated like adult formal language but not generally words that they would use in everyday conversation which makes them feel more mature and significant.


The double page spread is mainly all images of attractive men with their tops off with barely any text. This makes the article a more visual feature as the female readers are required to look at the men as there is little text on the page. As the target audience is for females between the ages of 11 and 15, this is the age group which females start to find males attractive and this feature encourages this.
The colour scheme for this article is red, yellow and white. These colours are not particularly feminine but contrast with each other and stand out. These colours can represent the heat and fire and this links in with the title, “Hot Bods”, as the colour scheme is red and yellow which are hot colours.
Every image is surrounded by a border of yellow which helps separate each image which makes it clearer and easier for the reader to follow. It also sections the image which makes it more organised. Every picture has a caption surrounded by a bubble and speech bubble. The speech bubble contains a humorous made up phrase which the celebrity supposedly says; “Wahhhh! My lovely locks!”. The red bubble informs the reader who the celebrity is and what they are famous for and adds a statement to link it in with the speech bubble, “If there’s one thing Corrie cutie RYAN THOMAS will not tolerate, it’s freak waves messing with his ‘do’!” The celebrities names are written in bold in yellow to stand out in contrast to the rest of the text. The language used is very chatty and informal and is talking directly to the reader which makes them feel more involved.