Context page analysis
- 1. A big massive V in the colour grey and in a bold font is placed behind the artist. The V stands out against the background because the V represents the name of the magazine. The V stand for Vibe which is the magazine name. The main image is a picture of a popular American artist who is Kanye West that specialise in the music industry. His facial expression is serious which suit the r & b magazine since the genre is normally targeted towards late teenagers and young adults. His body posture may it seem like he is tense as if almost he is ready for a fight by putting his hands inside his pockets. His outfit make it seem like Kanye West is a professional business man that work for a very well- known company or bank. Due to suits often being wore at formal or special occasions e.g a wedding or a meeting. However Kanye West body posture ruin this image slightly because his posture make him seem tense and scary like a gang member. Hence this may be why an arm is around him to represent that the arm is society and the arm being wrapped around him mean that society is still reinforcing negative black stereotypes on Kanye West. The layout of the magazine is easy to ready. The contents of the magazine is organised into a single column that is next to the main image. This simply layout suit this content page because the image of the content page seem to be a very realistic and overall serious image. The colour schemes mainly consist of dark colours and one neutral colour and unisex colours. Black, grey and red are all consider unisex colours therefore, this help to suit the target audience of R & B since it is a popular genre of music to listen to among both genders. The colours used are very neutral and dark that it results the content page to have a gloomy feeling to it. However this feeling compliments the R & B genre since most R & B songs centre around serious topics such as the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, freedom, economics and aspirations. The heading of the page that is Contents is printed in a big bold font in the colour black. It is also separated from the columns therefore it immediately catches the reader’s attention. Certain part of the text are in a different font. This help the reader to distinguish the parts of the context from each other. For example the sub headings and the heading are in two different fonts.