Double page spread analysis 1 and 2
- 1. Salford City College Eccles Centre AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio House Style In this page it has used colours such as pink and black. These colours are related to the artist in the magazine. The colour of her hair and what she wears is the trademark of her band revealing to us that this is mainly aimed for young women who are into electronica’s or rock type of music. The colour pink is made to be stereotypical but with the black going on we can tell the type of genre music this artist focuses on. Masthead The masthead is made to be thin bold and very big. The internal area of the text of the colour pink is made for us readers to feel that we deserve to read the magazine. The external areas of the masthead are thick blocks on each letters that creates an illusion which emphasises this to attract the readers. Main Image/Images All of the images in this page relates to the person who is the focus of this magazine. At the terminal area we find the artist’s head overlapping the ‘R’ letter as she is meant to be the focus of the magazine and shows her popularity. At the right hand side we find the concert or gig images being held during then to show her achievements. At the top, there are also images of what happened during the gig with its members especially the ones that are shaded in pink and black. The main image at the top is the actual model shoot taken. This is done for the readers to easily recognise the photo that may have been posted during advertisements or even album covers. Guttenberg design principle At the primary optical area is the place where the readers would firstly identify the aspect of the page. In this page, the masthead would be the one that they would easily attract their attention as it is very big and quite spacious throughout the page that covers about25% of these pages. At the terminal area it shows a long shot picture of her as she is the main person in the band. Text For the description, there are two main long paragraphs and these two paragraphs starts off with a big ‘I’ that covers about 7 lines and the letter ‘A’ that covers about 3 lines. This is made to start off a point for the readers to directly read those lines. At the quote it has used an inappropriate word to again tell the reader suggest if they would want to read or not. Design Balance This double page spread shows an informal balance as there are images on the right side of the terminal area whereas there are none at the left side. Design Symmetry Symmetry is found from when the two images on the right side are lined horizontally. Both of these image have the same shape and size also including the black and pink brick on the side of them which creates the symmetry. Use of rule of thirds At the primary optical area, we find the title that covers 25% of the page very attractive where the audiences would firstly recognise whereas at the terminal area where most of the smaller images are placed that shows the pictures of the band offstage or under the curtains.
- 2. Salford City College Eccles Centre AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio Guttenberg design principle Guttenberg design principle is used in this page of the image, at the primary optical area this is allocated around the boys who are kicking the rabbit as this is the main focus of the magazine with also at the terminal area we find the girl who is also part of the boys being uncontrollable. Main Image/Images The main image covers up the whole page on the left. This shows these boys and a girl beating up a mascot. This indicates rebellion as we can see how they are kicking their legs to the mascot and the girl stopping this from moving. This main image is very attractive towards the particular niche audiences as it may relate to teenagers who want to feel freedom. The boys’ expressions are very contented even though this looks like a stolen shot. The girl also looks stubborn especially looking towards the readers. House Style It has mainly used white, black and red colours in order to fit in with the bands masthead. The colour of red and white suggests innocence and rebellion. Also suggests that the target audiences for this are teen boys and girls and in what we can see them as of today. Text The text font is very informal, especially the quote laid out in the middle is very tall and thin similarly with the masthead font. Also the way of them using phrases such as ‘arty’ is informal as many teenagers use improper words especially when they speak. The word ‘teen’ also suggests telling the readers this magazine are for teenagers. Design Symmetry Design symmetry is found from the text description were this is splitted into 3 columns. This is done for the audience to easy read the writing when aligned properly. Throughout this page we do not find symmetry as this page is laid to be very informal and should be messy referring to rebellious teenagers. Use of rule of thirds Rule of thirds is seen in this page in where we can see the large masthead andboy’s eye level at the top where this makes an eye- contact not to us but the rabbit. At the third row we find the girl to be eye-contacting towards the readers. This may suggests how the girl is also rebellious corporates with the boys who would be more violent. Design Balance This page is informally imbalanced of the way they put a large image on the left side and text on the right side. The text column is laid out in three columns which gives a good balance as these are aligned well. Masthead The masthead is very white, capital and bold. Also the T and the S looks like it’s ripped out and again represents rebellion towards people. The dabbed paint that overlay the main image suggests that the masthead is very important for people to look at.
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