media double page spread presentation
TRANSCRIPT
Susan Alnajafi
Unsigned, new artist called “Little Boots”.
Target audience: Girls aged 16-25, judging by image of the artist, a
young woman in early 20s.
The section of the magazine is called “New Noise 2009”.
Colloquial and conversational language. Formal language is present, some complicated and elongated
words used.
Vast knowledge of complex vocabulary.
Uses friendly language.
Buzz words included such as “cool” and “hot”.
BUZZ
WORDS
A monochrome effect is used.
Smudge effect has been used on Little Boot’s face on Photoshop, a slight colour filter has been used, making sure she has bright pink lips, with blue eyes and obvious eye makeup.
Bright colours; purple and pink are used in the actual article to make it look more attractive for the younger readers.
The music logos are a range of blue, purple and pink, relating to the favourite colours of young people.
The title is in black and white, being quite different.
The “pull quote” is amusing and random, which is what most young girls want to read.
Drop cap at the beginning of the article, giving it a kick-start feel.
There is a use of sans serif and serif font in one page
Image:Quite big
Takes up one whole pageArticle only being one page, being very short and simple compared
to others.
Layout:Very orderlyImage and slug on the left hand side pageArticle on the right hand side page
Tone
The tone of the magazine is quite
conversational and talking as if we
are close friends.
Formal
The article can be read in a formal
way too, which can confuse the
reader but also seem more
interesting to actually read.
Examples
An example of conversational
language is, “She was at a
fashionable east London fashion
hangout”.
Examples
A formal part of the interview
would be Intuition is a key part of
Little Boot’s thing. She has a rare
ability to stay focused on her
own interests and beliefs,
unfettered by what’s happening
around her”.
The artist, “Little Boots”, is presented with an image of herself, wearing extravagantly strange eyelashes, with strange triangles at the tips, referring to her genre of music being unique and different to other genres of music. She is looking up, which has connotations of her having high hopes, dreams and ambitions in life and her music career.
The style of the article does not match the front cover at all, because the front cover has the colour red as the key theme, whilst in the article the key colours are black and white.
To understand a few of the programmes mentioned in the articles such as “The X Factor” or consoles such as Nintendo Wii, you would have to be familiar with the popular culture and youth values, because music magazines are for entertainment purposes and they include popular content for their target audience.