Unit 51 alex nesbit
- 1. Unit 51: Page Layout & Design Task One
- 2. The movie magazine, Empire. Contains different film reviews and various ads for the target audience. Their target audience seem to be around the age of 18 and up due to some of the adverts seem to involve some like cars, clothing alcohol and movies. The ads mostly contains DVDs/Blu-ray which is well fitted with the magazine because it relevant and people might consider buying them when reading the magazine. When it comes to social status you could say that it would range from C to E because most of the royal family wouldn’t go for such things but people who watch movies on a week basic would probably into this which would be a person like me who enjoys watching movies.
- 3. This magazine is gaming and contains game reviews and stories on gaming, such shown on the cover; “how to build your own arcade” and “inside Naughty Dog” this is a gaming company that produce games such as Uncharted as it shows that it is the main story it shows that when it says “The story behind the biggest game of the year”. When it comes to the adverts of the advert it seems it is mostly relevant to the genre in that inspect gaming it features a few games which could identify the age group of audience most of the games were 18 so but there was one game that was a 9 so, that I guess it is the minimum age and the maximum could vary depending on if you like gaming because gaming for computing such has been going on for over 60 years so if there are any people still living to tell their tales of their gaming experiences that they still enjoy the new games of this generation. There were other ads too but they consist on other magazines so it was hard to identify their target audience on that because they advertised other genres too. For the social class it would be the same for the empire magazine because you don’t hear about the royals playing computer games in their spare time.
- 6. Drop cap Sidebar Body text Subhead
- 7. White Space White Space Caption Headline Caption Kicker Drop Cap Sub Head Sub Head Pull Qoute
- 8. Now I will analyse and discuses how the audience’s needs are met by; Text, Colour, Design and layout and genre codes and conventions. So first there is text, this insist on what kind of language it consists of such as informal or formal language and the font that it uses. As for the sizes you can see there are over 5 sizes font colour scene to be red, black and white. It seems formal with no slang used in and it shows its main story as the avengers it attracts the audience because it the film that comes out the next month with exclusive as you can see on the badge when it says ‘20-page marvel exclusive!’ The audience would mostly read on when looking at the different size fonts and words to be intrigued on what the stories are about such as ‘How to top the biggest superhero movie ever made’ this may make the audience feel as though it can’t be beat “their favourite superhero movie”. Then there is the double page which I'll analyse, the most noticeable thing is the big ‘A’ as a drop cap this could refer to the avengers as they use a similar logo for most things in the film and is also used on the cover of empire magazine, also can see the red text which can be referred to a subhead. Other than that don’t think there is anything for it. It could attract the audience using the drop cap because they would see it in the movie and feel a connection from it. Text
- 9. Colour Like I said in the previous slide the colours for the font consist of; black, white and red. The other colours are of the picture which features colours like; blue, gold, green, purple and silver. It attracts the audience because it suits well with the title which is red originally and seems to go in a pattern as starts from the top with other films down to the names of actors and actress it seems as though the pattern goes; red, white, red, white, red. The badge on the left middle of the cover has all three colours but that the only object that easy see other than the banner like object over the masthead which also share the same colours. This would attract the audience because its not vivid with colours and easy on the eyes for older viewers, therefore it works well on the front cover. For colour on the two page spread seems to be similar but takes the colours on captain America other than that its about it for colours.
- 10. Design and Layout Using Guttenberg principle this consists of; Primary Optical area, Terminal area, Weak Fallow area and Strong Fallow rea. The way we look at it is also called the axis of orientation this just means that looking at the cover from the top left to the bottom right. First is the Primary Optical area, as shown it shows a few movies that are out this year but more importantly there is the beginning of the masthead and the date and price is there. Then across to the strong fallow area, this consist of the other half of the masthead and a banner to the right corner showing another story. As you go down to the weak fallow area you can see the cast of the main story and there is badge it also feature the first bit of the main story line and a few celebrities at the bottom. Finally there is the Terminal area which features the last of the main story title but more importantly it features the barcode. So overall you can see that the page is well structured and attracts the audience looking at each object making the audience look inside. For this it simply article on the left side and the main picture on the right this would be because its a small article and it the start of the it.
- 11. Genre Codes & Conventions This would consist on mise en scene, style, language and anchorage. So lets start with mise en scene, as shown the image are the avengers this indicates that this is there main article, to add to that they use sort of Repetition where it says ‘ More heroes! More action! More robots!’ this would do alot for this magazine to get audience because the avengers are well known making people want to read about the upcoming film. Also there are different stories to with name drops at the bottom to gets peoples interests with that with films at the top just to show what else they have got for their audience to read. There is also a few small badges and a banner to show there stories in case they didn’t seem to like the stories on the cover. So overall as it shows its clear to see that it meets the audiences need because the picture of the avengers makes fans want to read about what happening in the story and find sneak peaks from the film. For the two page spread I have probably already mentioned the previous slides most that there is to need to know about it when it comes to how the audience will be attracted to it because of the drop cap and because of the picture of captain America.
- 12. Text Next is the Edge magazine, so for starters, you can see that the bigger the font the more important it is, for example the biggest text is the masthead letting the audience know that edge is the magazine, then its the main article, then lesser story and few titles to put in to place. The language use seems to be formal with no slang. Something that caught my was the text over the masthead it stands out because it seems its in bold and seem to be the only text that is in bold which seems to me that it is one of the main stories other than the main game that is advertised on the cover, other than that there is only one title underlined maybe so some sort if important to some fans. This would bring in there audience depending on the story making them interested to read on. It seems this page has alot more things than the previous one I analysed so for reference check the diagram I created a few slides back to see what exactly it has but an overall of it would be that is formal going into detailed on the story of the game as it also follows with shots of the game using captions, drop caps quotes, it would attract the audience because the information that you can read makes the audience want to read making it better for the reader.
- 13. Colour The colour scheme seems to be red, white and few other colours for the background is black and then you have the photo which is a person’s face so it has skin colours with light and shadow and shoulder s show his shirt which seem to be a shade of blue. It very smooth with the text because it makes it easy to read but also still show off the good colouring working well with the image, I would say that the colouring could have something to do with the main story because its the colour scheme to the game so they used the same colour for their front cover to show that it goes well to advertise it. It seems to be very similar to the front cover so not much to say about it but it works well and connects well with the front cover even though it isn’t the same article.
- 14. Design & Layout The layout seems to be the similar to the previous one with having masthead in the strong fallow area and the primary optical area, this also includes the story and a title to show off the magazine and the website of the magazine to check out more news from previous magazines. Then when you go down can see the background picture of the character, on top of that there is the title with a kicker, then at the bottom you finish off with the other cover lines and a badge identifying the issue of the magazine. It is well structured for easy readers so that the people reading it would have to look inside to find out more about the stories because it doesn't reveal to much. For the Guttenberg principle, it has a selection of photos on all area, all based on the game ‘until dawn’ you can tell that because primary optical area has the title of the game and headline then you have some of the captions that are next to their appropriate image, it is well designed very similar to the cover making the audience appeal to it by reading it easy enough, from left to right.
- 15. Genre Codes & Conventions For this one there is only one character for the image, it is really neat and tidy so it attracts the audience making the audience look at the page and wonder what's inside but with that look at the image and think how amazing gaming technology has come to create such a realistic face for gaming compared to the first game of the franchise. Other than that there isn’t much to show as it keeps from telling you alot so you can look inside to read more about the interesting articles that it holds. Finally for the two page spread there are shots of the game which relevant to the caption and the text, also showing off a famous actor like Hayden Panettiere people who are familiar with her she is in things like Heroes but she was in scream 4, so she came from one horror to the next, this could show that she is well suited for the role. Overall it would attract audience using the image to tease the game but also giving detailed story on the game so that people can read before they decide to the game.