media coursework for my production of a music magazine

1. Pop-punk
Genre research
Emma Saunders

2. What is Pop-punk?
• Pop-punk is a modern music genre
that has gained increasing
popularity since the late 1990’s
• Pop-punk is described as a strand
of alternative rock that
typically merges pop melodies
with speedy punk rock tempos,
chord changes and loud guitars.
About.com has described second-wave
pop punk bands as having "a
radio friendly sheen to their
music, but still maintaining much
of the speed and attitude of
classic punk rock"

3. Artists who shaped the genre
• Nirvana
• The Offspring
• Green Day
• Blink182
• Sum41
• Fallout Boy

4. Artists of the genre most popular
now (2014)
• 5 seconds of summer
• Simple Plan
• Paramore
• Fallout boy
• You me at six

5. other Pop-punk artists since 2000
who had chart success
• Avril Lavigne
• Busted
• Bowling for soup
• Lil Chris
• Panic! At the disco
• The all American
rejects
• All time low
• Good Charlotte
• My chemical romance
• You me at six

6. Pop-punk success in the charts
• Pop punk's commercial success generally peaked
with the 1999 release of Blink-182's Enema of the
State, which sold 15 million copies worldwide
• Blink-182's status was cemented by constant
rotation on MTV. The band Lit enjoyed chart
success with the single "My Own Worst Enemy",
which spent 11 weeks on the top of the modern
rock charts
• Blink-182 had continued success in 2001 with
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which sold 14
million copies worldwide.

7. As you can see this PINK
and MINT colour is very
associated with Blink182
and the pop-punk genre,
hence I have used these
colours for my pop-punk
magazine’s house style.

8. codes and conventions
• Pop-punk artists are usually featured in special
editions of pop magazines, therefore these issues
usually follow typical conventions of a pop
magazine, often incorporating a few elements of
rock magazines.
Conventions
As Pop-punk is a genre with mainly a female
audience, pinks and light pastel colours are
often expected to be prominent.
The look of pop-punk is also prominent as
artists of this genre are dressed in a distinct.
Codes
Names of artists that are popular in
mainstream charts and alternative charts are
often featured on cover to draw in fans of the
genre.

9. Record labels
• Illegal records
• Ruby records
• Sound flat records
• Fearless records