Double Page Textual Analysis

Denotation:
The Magazine Double Page Spread has a women on the right-hand side of the page looking at the camera from the side of her side eye and head. Its a medium shot showing her head and arms.


Character:
The model is Lilly Allen a British Singer who is wearing a Red checked shirt on this double page spread .


Costume:
Despite the other clothes that she models in for some magazine front covers or double page spreads she is often wearing something that shows flesh, however in this spread she is wearing a dark red checked shirt which is almost buttoned to the top.

Title:
The title has been used like a lettering collage with the different letters big and small. It takes more than half of the left side of the page, which makes it very eye-catching as its even a grabbing story which leads the audience into reading the story,

Text:
The story text is very small and right beneath the title which gives you the pathway to the story.

Question 2:"How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

How does your media Product Represent particular social groups?

My music magazine is made to target teenagers, pop lovers between the ages of 14-29 years of age. Pop music and pop music magazines are consumed largely by females than men shown through a survey carried out about "Cosmo" consumers. Through this I've added things into my magazine for this particular social group. I've used various things such as colour, props and costume apart of of the mise-en-scene in my front cover to represent my targeted social group.

Firstly, the model that I've used for my magazine has been dressed to fit the social group that I've researched about for my magazine. She is wearing a

The jewellery added to my models costume has been kept to a minimum of plain small studs kept behind her big bushy hair and a simple long silver chain. This was kept to a minimum because it could have been dis-tractive of what she was actually wearing and stand out more, however i do feel that she could have been given more jewellery to wear to make it more eye catching. The colours on the models outfit is quite dramatic, bright and bold itself with bright  and bold make-up to match it. The pose struck by the model also is an imitation of the poses done in pop music magazines. The model stares directly at the camera whilst her head is slightly down. She is not smiling which gives a sort of vulnerable impression about her, however it comes across a bit seductive as she pulls one of her brace straps which is seen also in and is also associated with the genre - Pop.

Profiling your Audience

   
Blender Reader:
This is Ellie who is 17 years of age, she is crazy about Pop music and has been a fan ever since she heard the Spice Girls being played in her home at the age of 6. As its been an influence in her life, its been an influence in her sense of fashion as she strives for what a celebrity may have; including designer handbags, jewellery shoes and more. Although coming from an average middle class background she always tends to purchase Blenders monthly editions like her other friends this age too - all from a middle class home. From this they like to catch up on celebrity Gossip, find new music, tour dates and new trends set by some artists such as Rihanna, Beyonce and Katy Perry. She loves the live music experience and often goes to summer music festivals such as Wireless and T4 with her mates.

As Blender has a range of different colour schemes it is eye-catching to the young pop audience, however with some adult content it would be appealing to people to the maximum age of 29/30 perhaps. I could apply this knowledge to the rest of my magazine its layout and content.

Manipulated and Un-manipulated photos : Front Cover

This is the un-manipulated photo which I used for my Front Cover. I liked this pgoto as she looked quite promiscuous however innocent by her body language and her eye contact towards the camera.

Here is what ive done after photoshopping the image. Ive made it more darker showing the models real skin tone and adding a glow effect to her eyes.

Question 6 : "What have you learnt from technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

"What have you learnt from technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

In the process and making of my magazine I had to use Adobe Photoshop version CS3 to construct my music magazine. Adobe Photoshop has a selection of tools in helping to develop and transform a jpeg image or file into whatever you want it to be. To begin with, my teacher lead me into learning how to use a Canon E05 400D to take pictures with later on for one of my tasks. During my first time of using the camera, I used it to do my first preliminary task of creating a college magazine cover and contents page - the prep towards the main task. From this I learnt how to create an image that is to how I'd like it to look like, things I've learnt include how to focus the lens and a particular spot and angle that you want from your viewpoint from the camera.

All the images that I had taken were all in one place which made it easier to move around, rather moving from location to location and was more time efficient. By using the the Canon E05 400D I was able to enhance quality into every photo that I took which was helped by the cameras flash. Although the camera worked well, it took quite some tie to get the focus, as indicated by the cameras red eye. It was also quite hard to keep still as I was working without a tripod which mean that some pictures taken were blurry.

After I had taken all the photos, I uploaded them to my computer documents and moved them to my pictured file. I then opened Adobe Photoshop where I was able to select the photos that I wanted to work with. Through Photoshop I learnt how to manipulate photos that I had taken from the Canon E05 400D and used it to help construct my magazine. From my photos I was able to take the pictures that I had taken and clone some ares of that I wanted in maybe a differnet area. I also learnt how to adjust the brightness of the image and use curves to adjust the angle of the lighting as well as levels.

Adobe photoshop allows you to convert images to different images into jpeg files as i needed to upload some photos onto blogger, however they were psd files.

Question 5: "How did you attract/address your audience?"

By using my audience research trough or example blackberry messenger, I found out how to draw my audience through different aspects of mise-en-scene.I found that the first thing and most important way of drawing in your audience is by your music magazines front cover. As this is the first thing that they'd see, it determines if my audience would purchase the magazine or not, depending on how attracted to it they are. By trying to appeal to an adult but mostly teenage audience, I decided to use a teenage model and dressed her up to look however a bit older( 19 -20 years of age by her elaborate make-up and tight clothing). My model has worn clothes that my target audience usually wear and the style mostly associated with pop such as bright clothing which is either tight, lose or quite revealing, but as its targeted also to a young audience, it couldn't be too revealing. Things that she's worn including; a boob tube bright sky blue top which could con notate her freedom, especially as some teenagers feel that they can do anything that they want.

Pop artists usually like to wear statement jewellery, however simple and to the point for example; Billboards October 2008 issue with Country/Pop singer Taylor swift as its cover. This fashion isnt particularly high street, but has some high street trades with a twist of retro. Pop girl group "The Saturdays" and 2011 X Factor winners, girl group "Little Mix" do the same. This also attracts the audience as they are always searching for the latest fashion.

By addressing to my audience that this was a music magazine an even more specific- Pop, I decided to use obvious this in my Front cover using the cover lines and ticket give aways. Through the cover lines of my music magazine i used well known pop artist names to attract my audience, for example "RIHANNA, AND THE TRUTH BEHIND WE FOUND LOVE MUSIC VIDEO!", which would definitely appeal to my audience as Rihanna's music is consumed by a lot of 15-20 year olds. In my cover line, I also talked about concert ticket gveaways which would draw my audience to read further to know what concert and how to recrecieve the tickets.

Through my whole magazine I've kept to three fonts, and have kept it consistent as I didn't want to have too much going on, however I feel that I've made the right choice including with my my font colour keeping to the magazines colour scheme. I thought that the colour pink would attract my audience as most of my consumers would be female no matter what age. I simply used font given by Adobe Photoshop and used it for my Title, Cover lines and normal text. Using one of the tools on Photoshop (Clone) I made the text be a mimic of the sound waves from speakers, since my magazine is called "The Sound".

Another way that I attract  my audience is through my magazines contents page listing everything that will come up in the magazine. In the contents page I included Interviews from different well known pop artists which would attract my audience as they'd want to get to know them. I also included regulars from the magazine such as tour dates to which would be of interest to the reader to no that from each issue they'd know the tour dates from their favourite artists knowing where and how to see them.

Manipulated and Un-manipulated photos : Double Page Spread

Here is the image used for my Double Page Spread on the first page of the double page spread- this was unmanipulated.

This is the one that i manipulate by decreasing the opacity on photoshop to make it quite translusant. Ichose this photo because it was eye catching.

This is the finished product of my double page spread after manipulating it.

My Double Page Spread

Mock ups for Double Page Spread for my music mag.

Mock ups of Contents Page for my music mag.

Mock ups Of my front Cover for the music mag.

Double Page spread Codes and Conventions

Colour Scheme:

This double page spread follows a simple colour scheme of grey, white and blue which is reflective of what the boys on the pages are wearing.

Image:
There are two boys in the double page spread who are posed simply giving the camera full eye contact and direct address. The images a spread length wise from top to bottom of the page. Its text has been placed along side of both images and has some in white circles on top of the waist of the models.

Subject:
On the top of the pages the models names are placed on top of a quote from them.


Quotes:
A quote has been taken from the Interview and which has been placed underneath the models' name in bold white lettering.


Stand-first:
These are on top of the third paragraph following of the double page spreads.


Drop Capital:
There are no drop capitals in theses articles.

Headline:
There is no direct headline apart from the models' name in a different font and in blue, as they are recognisable from pop boy band "One Direction" this is already a way of grabbing the readers attention.

Music Magzine

Music Magazine Contents Page

Contents Page Codes and Conventions

Colour Scheme:

Pink has mainly been used in this music magazines contents page with black and white in addition being its central colour scheme.

Mix:
There is a mix of photos, headings and and text boxes which is all included in one page.

Columns:

The magazine is laid out in columns with text boxes and number pages.

Main Image:

A medium image of 4 caucasian men stand together posing casually.

Other Immages:
There are images that are included in the magazines content page which corespond to the title that are in the

Masthead:
The magazines name is right on the top of the contents page which is written in pink and which is said in their logo.

Title:
The title page includes the the issue date, however with the page number at the bottom, without a web address or contact info. It has a voucher instead of a competition.

Categories:
A new feature is included on the left hand side of the magazine with new news, and in the centre column showing new things too.

Text Boxes:
There are different text boxes in the contents page which include titles to grab the readers attention and to highlight the most important stories.

Sub-Lines:
In the text box with the big number "1" has its main title in Pink and its sub-line saying "oh girl" this automatically has the audience thinking suspicially about that story drawing them to read it.

White backgrounds:

The background is split into pink on the outside of the left hand side column which acts as border whilst the actual contnts of the page has white as its background.