Wednesday 16 March 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
How do magazine front covers use denotation and connotation to attract their intended audience?
The name of the magazine I have chosen is “ Four-Four-Two”. Four-Four-Two is a very popular football formation. using this as the title makes it easy for customers who have an interest in football to make the association between the magazine and football. The intended target audience of this magazine is people who have an interest in football.
There is a football player, (Sneijder) on the front of the cover posing as if he is striking a football. The picture is a long shot of him, so you can see his whole body. The picture has been taken at a low angle as we are meant to see him as a powerful individual, so it is like we are looking up to him. In this case as this is a football magazine we are meant to see him as a good footballer and will be influenced to read the magazine to become more like him on the football pitch. The back ground is very plain so the main focus is placed on the writing, but more importantly the image, which has been placed in the centre of the cover.
On the cover there is a colour scheme of red, black and white. All the subheadings on the cover are placed around the outside in red font to draw attention to them with a small sentence about them in black placed just underneath. The main heading still sticks with in the colour scheme, but to make it more appealing and different to the rest of the text the colour of the font is white with the red and black background to the text. This text is also bigger than the majority of the rest of the text, as the publishers wanted potential buyers to make sure they see this. As well as this the text has a special effect to make it look as if it has been kicked by the football player on the cover.
Wednesday 16 February 2011
3 Double Page Spread Analysis
This is a double page spread from Vibe magazine. The magazine has lots of text and also has several images too. The over all colour scheme is quite plain, using only black white and blue on the text. These are all natural colours which makes it appeal to both sexes, which helps to increase the appeal to audience. Solange Knowles is wearing a short red dress with high heels. This image represents that body image is important within the R&B genre of music. Wearing the red dress makes the artist stand out and become the main focus of the article, also with her name being the only other thing in the article. With lots of text this shows vibe aims to educate readers not only entertain them.
NME is the best selling indie music magazine represents their audiences in my different. They used a well known face in the music industry here, who as a large fan base. This being Lilly Allen. Lilly Allen is closely linked with the indie genre of music. The writing used is very bold which represents the artist, Lilly Allen personality. Although this is a music magazine the article is not based around music, but just around the musician. The theme of the article mainly being about the artist is emphasised by the most of the article being in simple colours, e.g. white and black, where as the artists herself is dressed in mainly red to make her stand out.
NME is the best selling indie music magazine represents their audiences in my different. They used a well known face in the music industry here, who as a large fan base. This being Lilly Allen. Lilly Allen is closely linked with the indie genre of music. The writing used is very bold which represents the artist, Lilly Allen personality. Although this is a music magazine the article is not based around music, but just around the musician. The theme of the article mainly being about the artist is emphasised by the most of the article being in simple colours, e.g. white and black, where as the artists herself is dressed in mainly red to make her stand out.
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