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conventions of a music magazine front cover

Textual Analysis

NME is the front cover of magazine that am going to annotate, this because Rihanna is the front cover image also she is a famous for POP music and singer. Also it fits to the genre of the   magazine I am going to do. Furthermore NME is a popular music magazine that is published in the UK and has a high seller of the magazine.

 Denotation:

The magazine has a pop singer that directly is looking at the camera. It is a medium shot, showing her head, arms and waist. It looks like she is standing up but its not for sure if she is because we can not see her legs. The background of the image is white of her outline and greyish towards the corner of the edge of magazine. Also the image covers the whole of the magazine. On top of the image of the magazine the is the NME the masthead which is front of her face, and top of the image (her shoulder) there is a cover-line in black bold font. The image of the women or singers name is in the mid centre of the magazine and its in hot pink font. There is a barcode at the bottom right of the magazine.

Masthead:

NME’s masthead is very feminine and attractive: the hot pink outlines that the image is a pop singer. The font used is a ‘ARIAL’. The letters NME represent ‘New Musical Express’ which show non- conformity and comes from a musical break ground (American/British culture). Also NME   has a genre of music styles so we could associate it with NME: New Musical Express. Also NME is clearly showing that it is aimed for music lovers any type.

Character:  the front cover image is a well known American singer ‘Rihanna’

Composition: she is posed in a feminine way and is leaned towards her hips which can tell us that she wants attention or she is attractive. Also her clothing is modern and it looks like she has her own style she looks business, young adult.

Costume: her clothing is modern a nice black different style top with a baby blue bottom, which this could associate with her style of music. Her pink lipstick color can relate to NME is logo color. And her blue eye shadow suits with her bottom. Her hair looks extraordinary she wants to create her look she wants to look unique.                                                                  
  Lighting: looks high key, this lighting technique may be used to make her facial expressions more clear.                                                                                                                                                                                         Setting: there is no setting it’s just a white screen so probably the photograph was taken in a studio .

Cover – line: the main cover-line relates to ‘Rihanna’ and the people in the magazine ‘the state of music today’ this is making a reference to ‘Rihanna’ and the other singers that are going to be in the magazine that was published on that day. Also the cover-line colors are in hot pink which show is the main cover-line.

Target audience:  clearly the target audience is teenagers /adults age between 16-25. Male and female audience and pop lovers for this front cover magazine because the singer ‘Rihanna’ is a pop singer.

College magazine

This is my finished front page college magazine , it's called 'sixth formers'. I used purple tones for my text colour to get the ctksfc purple and white theme.

Introduction

Hello, I'm Merve am a student at christ the king sixth form college, am studying : As Mathamatics , As History , As Psychology and As Media Studies , i want to study film studies  with maths in university. I am using this blog for posting my work for media studies.