Textual Analysis of music Magazine

Denotation: The magazine cover consist of a photograph of a man who is staring directly at the camera the man in the photograph has a particular pose where his holding on to his suit. The man is wearing a grey suit with a waist coat underneath and a matching tie to go with it, black and grey scarf and a big diamond ring on his right finger. This photograph is a medium close up, showing his head down to his waist. The background of the magazine is white and the photograph covers most of the front page.

Masthead: The Rolling Stones masthead is ironic where as it’s done in a n original stone colour a type of greyish colour could be to symbolise that the magazine is looking for an older look. The font used is a serif font, the word ‘rolling Stone’ tells the audience the magazine is about music and musicians as the phrase has been used in popular American music in the past.

The main cover line that relates to the photograph says:

“Jay-Z: Addicted to the game”

This would be relating to the music ‘game’ the word ‘addiction’ is there to make the audience think about what the actual addiction Jay-Z is talking about, playing it?, the money in it?,  Or just making good music.

From the other cover lines the audience are meant to notice this magazine isn’t just about music. It has many other features such as news, ‘the weirdest nut job’ this obviously has nothing to do with music also there’s information about were the top bands stand in the ranking. But they purposely made it clear what the main focus should be Jay-z as his photograph is the life of the magazine also his in the main cover line. All the Cover lines are done in serif font, connoting tradition. It suggests that Rolling stone magazine has existed for a long time it also links to the God father 1972 look that Jay-Z is putting on.

This is a Photograph of an Hip-hop artist Named Jay Z, Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969),, in this photograph he is posed in a particular way where his hands are on his blazer, this shows a sign of Authority and wealth, him holding on to his blazer tells us he wants us to realise how his dressed  he wants us to notice his wealth.  By just looking at his colour co-ordination i would say this man has order an respect and is a very organised business man, but by looking at the Diamond ring on his little finger makes the audience question whether his just an average business man or more of a crime boss.

Mise en scene:

Costume:  In this photograph of Jay-Z looking at it from another view it’s as if he went for the 1972 Godfather Italian look, he is wearing a blazer which is open so that we can see the waist coat under the colour of the waist coat and blazer is a darkish grey. The man is also wearing a dark grey tie with a white shirt and a black and silver scarf, the man in the photograph is also wearing a diamond ring on his little finger. There is no prop in this photograph.

Setting: this would be taken in a photograph studio as we can tell from the back ground he must have been standing in front of a screen.

Lighting: the photograph of the man in the magazine cover has a light key lighting where as its practically free of shadow the photograph is in fact vivid an clear.                                                                                                                                                 

Non verbal communication, by his body language we can make out that this man is confident with himself as most people would agree that he is by the type of things Jay-Z quotes in his music, ‘Lost 30 million last year but unlike you, 30 million can’t hurt me’ in this photograph he has a rather serious facial expression, again to symbolise his Authority in ‘hip hop or maybe just in general.

The Anchorage of this photographs says ‘Addicted to the game’ done in an sans serif font. This anchorage is particularly good because it links directly to the photograph of Jay-Z. It makes the audience quickly noticed the reason why his facial expression and body language is the way it is. The relationship between the photograph and the anchorage makes the audience question the word ‘Game’ ,makes them realise its more serious than that.

Considering all these points in the magazine, I would imply that the audience of this magazine would be for anyone at the ages of 15 an above , male or female who knows about the music industry or in words of the magazine the music ‘game’ ,this could even be for other hip hop artist to view.

Contents Page

Three strengths of my Contents Page:

•   My first strength would be my colour scheme and the way I made the colours consistent with the use of jus three colours with the main colour being bright. 
•         Secondly my choice of front ‘Impact’ which is very clear and easy to read.
•        lastly my background colour, This was slowly edited to its best condition.         

                 

                 

          Three Weaknesses of my Magazine Front cover:

                                            

•    My first weakness of my Contents page is that i feel like there’s more i could of done to improve the look of it
•   Secondly my colours chosen I’m starting to debate whether i should used brighter colours.
•   Lastly I feel that I could of put much more on the page as it seems to look a bit empty.

Draft Magazine cover

Evaluation

Three strengths of my Magazine Front cover:

·         My first strength would be my colour scheme and the way I made the colours consistent with the use of jus three colours with the main colour being bright.

·         Secondly my choice of front ‘Impact’ which is very clear and easy to read.

·         Lastly my background colour, this makes my photograph easy to be clearly seen.

Three Weaknesses of my Magazine Front cover:

·         My first weakness of my magazine front cover is my layout; I think I could have made my layout more consistent than it is for the example the positioning of my text.

·         Secondly my pieces of text could have been more relevant to my cover lines.

·         Lastly I feel that I could of put much more on the page as it seems to look a bit empty.

Pie Charts of Questionaire

 

College Magazine drafts

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

My name is seyi omogbehin, as one of my media studies projects I would have to take up a questionnaire about what people from different age ranges like in magazines so that when I make my college magazines it will consist of things my audience will like.

Circle Your Answer.

1.       What gender are you?   Male         Female

2.       What is your age? 16       17        18       19

3.       Would you buy College magazines?    Yes         No

4.       If yes how much would you pay for it?  50p      1.00p       1.50p      2.00p

5.        Do you think college magazines should be free? Yes           No

6.       How often do you read magazine(s)? Daily       Weekly        Other
7.       What would you want to read about within these magazines if you were to buy them? Cultural         Educational        Entertainment       Sport        Music        Other

8.       Would you want these magazines frequently? Weekly          Monthly        Terms         Yearly

9. Which of these things would you like to see in a college magazine? Pictures        Posters     achievements      Enrichments Progams
10.   When reading a magazine what should appeal to you first? style of front      pictures     colours    Other11.   Would you like information on careers and opportunities? Yes          No

12.   Would you prefer the magazine to be edited or simple?  Very Simple        Fairly simple     Highly Edited       Fairly Edited

Textual Anaysis 2

Denotation: In this magazine cover there’s a photograph of a man, this is a medium shot photograph of a man who is holding books and bits of work I assume for college the man in the photo seems to be happy with what he does in college.

Mise-en-scene:

Costume: the man in the photograph is wearing a Morden black casual jacket which is purposely open to show the silver or maybe white gold chain with an cross as an pendent maybe to symbolise his religious, under the black jacket he is wearing and plain white fresh t-shirt which helps his chain stand out also we see he is wearing an wrist watch on his left wrist. Further down the man in photograph is wearing darkish grey jeans with a black belt with silver cross the buckle. This is a medium camera shot.

Props: the prop in this magazine cover is hand held books and paper, this is the only props in this magazine cover. This is used well as it gives you that whole college sense.

Setting: could be in a photograph studio somewhere in college as we can tell from the back ground he must have been standing in front of a screen.

Lighting: the photograph of the man in the magazine cover has a light key lighting where as its practically free of shadow the photograph is in fact vivid an clear.

NVC (Non Verbal Communication):

The body language of the man in the magazine cover tells me that he is happy with doing education and what he is doing in college, his body is also upright which sends signs of confidence. From the man’s’ facial expression in the photograph the information I get from the not over exaggerated smile, is that this man is doing well and is comfortable with what his doing in college.

Anchorage: the anchorage of this photo written in sans serif fonts is ‘college lifestyle’ which makes us understand the concept of this photograph because as we can see the prop the man is holding is ‘law business and society’ paper work.

Masthead:  The masthead of this magazine says ‘College’, the design of this type face isn’t really unique but is simply there, easy to identify in the big green bold letters. This is used well as its used to blend in with the other colours of the magazine, but on the other hand there’s is a drawback to this part of the magazine where as you can’t see two of the letters as the photograph of the man is covering the missing letters.

Cover lines: The first cover line states: ‘why we love blackberry?’  This is a rhetorical question a good way to start a cover line and attract an audience especially because blackberry is the trends in the modern day to adults an particularly college aged children so it would make the audience want to read more about it.

The Second cover line ‘make money on campus’ this is another good cover line due to because people always want to make money somehow some way so  giving advice on how to make money would attract everyone as money is the main objective of education.

Lastly ‘jump up& wave’ this to me has to meanings; first meaning would be the end of the college life or secondly jumping up with excitement for making it to the college life.

Date line: This magazine was done in the ‘summer 2009’ this magazine is unusual as the pricing an date is usually together. This magazine is priced $5.99 for U.S and $4.99 Canada.

Barcode: barcode is at the bottom left of the magazine.

Selling Line: ‘your exclusive guide to everything hip hop & happening’ this is an short description of what’s inside of the magazine. This tells me its targeting a wide range of an audience who like music and modern things.

Main Image: a photograph of a young black male dressed casually with a fairly wide smile. This photograph is put directly in the middle of the page because it’s the picture that’s meant to steal the audience’s attention. This could be to show the college isn’t racist, has all different coloured people in the college.

Main cover line:  the main cover line of this magazine says ‘dancehalls future’ this is there to tell us there’s a future for this college and what to expect.

Introduction

HI! My name is Seyi Omogbehin. I am currently studying Media Studies at an AS level at Christ the king, this aspect of the course is to create a Foundation Portfolio, this blog is a record of all of my as media work.