3 double page spread
- 1. Anais Nzeza – AS Media - 3 Double Page Spreads The first thing that I see immediately is a close-up The second thing that catches my eye is the title. They have made it noticeable by writing the text inn bold black picture of Rihanna (a famous young female R&B capital letters. This is to show that it is the most important text on the page. They have also used a yellow artist) in the background as it is the biggest thing background for the title because yellow is a strong colour that also stands out in the eyes of the reader. The title that uses both pages. It is like she is peeking from ‘WHAT’S MY NAME’ refers back the artist’s song but doesn’t give a clear full meaning on the title and therefore, behind a curtain. The way I look at her makes me it tempts the reader to read the full story in order to understand. The title also includes another (male) R&B think she is also red with the reflection of her hair. icon called ‘Drake’. They have made his name smaller as the focus is more on Rihanna. They have written the Red can signify different things such as love, life or names in blue so that they can include male readers too. death. Her facial expression shows how relaxed she is. To me, she either looks innocent or demanding – innocent by the way she stares The next thing I see is a side page of calmly at the reader, or maybe demanding by the Rihanna’s hairstyles that she way her mouth is slightly open, the way she stares changed over the past year. They with only one eye and also the way we see her as have written ‘Hair today, gone if she had no clothes on but a tattoo; it could give tomorrow’ because of her fashion a sexual image to male readers or simply a normal sense routine that attract a huge image to a wide range of female readers who see population of female readers as her as an icon. Rihanna herself is a young adult and a fashion icon – it helps to give four different hairstyle pictures so that the female audience have an idea of which new hairstyles could fit them. They have made this title The background is simply white so that all the same as the ‘WHAT’S MY the features on top of it can stand out. NAME’ title so that it can stand out onto the page too. Most of the writings on the left page seem to be written in serif style. This little yellow box includes another icon so that the readers don’t get too bored with the text and therefore attracts the eye of the reader and encourages them to read more; especially as there isn’t a lot of text written. The title ‘Along similar lines’ is straightforward which the female readers may understand and this is another reason why it tempts to continue to read.
- 2. Anais Nzeza – AS Media - 3 Double Page Spreads They also show the artist herself in big taking up half of The background shows the artist the page on the right page. This striking different poses which is the first thing I see as she id takes up the top half of the page the most colourful one that horizontally replacing the title. I stands out than the background think they have done this colour and the text. This is so because they intend to bring we can focus mostly on her. their audience around so that She shows a good sense of they can find out who she is fashion to female readers. She instead of simply writing her looks very innocent when she name – another way to tempt poses with her arms back on the reader to read. her hips and also by her face – it is like she communicates with her eyes to the audience. The title has a stronger grey than the background colour but there is the colour blue written in the name of the artist, ‘SOLANGE KNOWLES’ to show she is the unique important one. This blue is also used on the logo of the magazine on the top left corner. On the first line of the title, it says, ‘FORGET HER SISTER’ – they want the audience to find out The text of the story is written into four This quotation mark does seem who this person could be. I have sections – three sections on the left page to be important because it is realised that they write catchy and one section on the right as that space written in a bolder, different things in magazines to make it also includes the artist. The artist fits well font; also bigger font size than sound like gossiping because that into that space because if there were only the story. is what a lot of people like. texts, their intended audience wouldn’t be bothered to make the effort to read.
- 3. Anais Nzeza – AS Media - 3 Double Page Spreads They seem to have made the main colours black and red because they are two strong colours put together that contrasts well with a plain background. These two colours fit well with both genders. The drawings on his neck show his interests which gives us enough information about him already The magazine logo seems to be written backwards without him even talking. The left page only has a side The way they write ‘LiFE OF A close up picture of a famous SHOOTING STAR!’ is very effective; male R&B artist Soulja Boy. He is it is very catchy for the intended chosen to be the main story of audience and makes it sound a bit this magazine because of the informal too. They have used population of girls around the speech marks and exclamation world who are one of his biggest marks to show that someone is talking with pride. fans. The title on the right page ‘LiFE OF A SHOOTING STAR!’ and This title takes up the whole top half the repetition of the word of the right page so it can stand out ‘SWAG’ written on his face on a white background and defines describes his personality and also on how this artist is like. success – even the drawings on his neck. The other half is the story part separated in two sections like how a magazine should look like – there are a bit of red writing and mostly black writing. When I first looked at the picture, it reminded me of how people pose in prison when they get their photos done with a small twist of him smiling instead of being serious. The other clue that made me think like this was the way the word ‘SHOOTING’ in the The way the artist gives the image of being a tough gangster by the title was written in red – this made me think of blood. fake tattoos is a way of inspiring mostly male and maybe some female audiences to try and get a tattoo done because it is ‘cool’. The title has graffiti writing like on the artist and the letter ‘i’ in ‘LiFE’ is the only letter written in small case. The ‘i’ could signify the artist talking about himself. There can also be an inspiration of haircuts for male readers as This overall, shows me that it is not a serious theme as the handwritings are written in they see what trend is up to date and also the drawings on his neck teenage style. may inspire and boost male readers to do something in their lives.