Background (snow)

My magazine is a Christmas edition due to the fact that it is being released in December, therefore I was going to add snow to the background. So here I was trying out different snow effects however due to my in depth research I found pop music magazines usually have white backgrounds which meant if my magazine was going to be conventional and attract my target audience then I would have to have a white background too. Meaning that I could no longer use the snow effect on the background of my front cover, however by adding a snowflake on both my front cover and my contents page I kept the Christmas theme I wished for my magazine to have.

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Double-page spread analysis two

Denotation: This double-page spread is about Adele who is a 21 year old pop music singer, these article was realised in 2012. The colour theme is black, grey and white. There is a close up of Adele which fills up the space on the right and runs over onto the left half of the article. The title fills up the top half of the left page and is in a bold black font, underneath is a short introduction to the article and under the introduction is a line which is underlined with a black line which separates that to the actual article. Connotation: The article says 'Women who rock 2012' which suggests that this is a regular article because Adele is only one woman where as women means there should be more than one, which may make the reader buy the following weeks magazine to find out the next woman who rocks 2012. This magazines targeted audience is twenty to thirty year old women which can be seen with the use of colour scheme which is white, grey and black as it makes it more professional which can also give it a feeling that it's an old newspaper looking even though it is a pop music article which is normally in bright colour when it is aimed at under twenty year olds. The use of the drop cap draws the reader's attention towards the body text, to make them want to read it. The use of Serif Sans font makes this article look professional and elegant which matches the rest of this double page spread. The photo of Adele is a close up which is of her face, which fills up over half of the double page which makes her stand out, but due to the black and white colours used it does not make her seem as flashy and bold in the readers face. The white light shining on half of Adele's face makes her stand out from the rest of the page it also makes her eye makeup and eyebrows stand out which gives her the elegant look, her lips are closed and she is looking away from the reader so the image doesn't seem like she isn't bright and bold, and in their face reinforcing the elegant look, it also makes her look like she is thinking and maybe even caught off guard but she still looks nice. Although her hair contrasts against her non-bright and non-bold face because it shows that she does have power and a powerful voice and is not plain and boring. The use of the kicker continues to capture the reader's attention to encourage them to read the article from reading the title, then to the kicker and finally to reading the main body text, each one using a smaller font and more information leading up to the main body.

Double-page spread analysis

Denotation: This is an article on Lily Allen which was realised in January 2009, she is posing with her hands on her hips, she has short black hair and is wearing a red, black and white shirt with a chain around her neck. The titles font is sans serif and it is a statement that Lily Allen has actually said herself, it looks as if letters have been cut out of different articles and then stuck on to this page. underneath the title is a kicker just briefly talking about the article. Under the article is the body text which has is in four columns. The colour theme of this article is red, black and white. Connotation: Lily Allen looks like she is trying to make a strong statement, because of her short black hair which looks slightly scruffy, her dark eye makeup, her chain and her dark red, black and white shirt, she is trying to make people realise what she is saying and she is not going to change her opinion for anyone. The colours she is wearing has been used across the rest of the article, the background is all white, the title and the body text is white and her name is in the same dark red colour as her shirt which makes it stand out so everyone can see who she is. The body text has been separated into four short sections by using gutters this makes it look like there isn't as much text there as there actually is, which makes it easier to read for teenagers, which is most likely their target audience. The title is using the bold sans serif font so it stands out to capture the reader's attention, The title is a statement that Lily said herself which may make the audience want to read on to see what else she has said and what it's all about, the letters look as if they have all been cut out separately and stuck on, which looks interesting and may make the reader wonder whether she has said that and then regretted it, because when this technique is normally used they don't want the reader to find out who wrote it.