College Magazine Flat Plan

Practise textual analysis

Masthead
Medium shot covering the mast head
skyline
puff
lots of cover lines to attract students
3 colour scheme (yellow, pink & black)
bar code
mise-en-scene- books

Task2 Textual analysis of 2 magazines

Front Page-

IMAGE

• 3 colour scheme:

Red,Pink & Green.

• Head shot
• mise-en-scene; white t-shirt connotes purity and

reinforces star status.

• High key lighting connotes his star status
• Star that everyone knows

Page Layout

• Mast head is behind the cover star

Kendrick Lamar is more important at the time.

• Anchorage/ cover line is at the bottom centre of the image.
• coverline/ pull quote
• Bar code
• Cover lines showing other artist in the article.
• ‘+’ symbol is a puff

Language

• 2 main fonts
• Informal language ‘it is a real trippy thing, you feel me?’ indicates the audience is young.

Genre Evidence

• The list of artists mentioned on the right side of the magazine are all hip hop artists.

Contents Page-

IMAGE

• Full body shot
• High key lighting
• Body language connotes a sense of happiness
• Mise-en-scene: clothing

PAGE LAYOUT

• 
  One column
• Each article is numbered
• Masthead is on the right hand side

DPS

IMAGE

• One whole side of the article is an image of Kendrick to show that the article is about him.
• 
  The background colour is the same as the front cover.
• Body language/ facial expression connotes seriousness and worried thoughts he has about his fans.

PAGE LAYOUT

• All the writing is on the left hand side
• 2 columns
• Very neat and simple
• One sentence is bold
• 3 different types of fonts

LANGUAGE

• Informal ‘what have you brought you mum and your pops…’ US slang
• Formal

GENRE EVIDENCE

• ‘From compton, to the hood….’ generally hip hop is rap made fro artists that grew up ‘in the hood’

Task2B
Media Kit

The readers is 78% male, 44.7% college educated and 67% african american. This magazine is popular amongst them groups mainly because alot of hip-hop artist are african americans. The age group that dominantly buys the magazine is 29% of 25-29 year olds and 83% of 21year olds and older.. It sells for $5.99 which in english pounds is £4.82. The reader can get the magazine from clubs, online, onstage and in retail stores. XXL claim to 'speak to the rap-music generation' and is 'part of a movement and helped build XXL to become the No.1 most influential brand in the rap media'. As well as that XXL had got a great status as 'the most respected hip-hop music magazine by both consumers and the industry alike'. The monthly page views is 5,381,435.

 Front Page-

IMAGE

• 3 colour scheme (Pink,blue & white)
• medium close up on the side of the page to make space for cover lines .
• mise-en-scene: pink connotes he should be seen because its a bright and happy colour. His hand gesture could show that he is important miming to be on the phone.
• lighting on his face is dark but part of his jacket is lit.

PAGE LAYOUT

• Masthead is behind the cover star, shows that the cover star is more significant.
• Main cover line is on the left hand side next to the cover star.
• bar code at the bottom
• cover lines all over the page 
• skyline which is the slogan. 
• Pull quote on top of the main cover line.

LANGUAGE

• all of the front cover is forma and clear.
• 2 fonts.

GENRE EVIDENCE

• One thing that gives evidence that the magazine is a dance music and club magazine is the skyline promotes this.

CONTENTS PAGE-

IMAGE

• number of images (4 main images)
• full body shot, medium close up & close up.
• main image on the left connotes fun and happiness.

PAGE LAYOUT

• 2 columns
• 5 different sub titles
• each image is numbered

DPS-

IMAGE

• Caught in the moment

PAGE LAYOUT

• Image is across the whole page with majority of the writing is on the left side.

TASK 2B
The average weekly reach for mixmag is 5,728,000. The employment status is 25% unemployed and 70% employed. The relationship status is 18% married and 73% single. The education status is 34% post grad and 64% in university. The social grade is 22% C1 and 46% AB. It is read by more men at 77% and women at 23%. The average age is 24. The magazine is worldwide and is read , 31% in UK, 17% US, and 11% France.

Textual Analysis Homework

IMAGE

• Medium shot

(taking up the whole left side of the page to show that the whole article is about him.)

• Facial expressions connotes that he is serious about his music.

• Main colour is red.

The rapper is in a different tone of red.

• Low key lighting
• Hes hate says

‘Bompton’ which is similar to where he is from ‘Compton.

PAGE LAYOUT

• Very neat, in columns with cover line in the middle.
• 2 different style of fonts.
• URL website link at the bottom of both pages.

LANGUAGE

• Formal

GENRE EVIDENCE

• The star is a rapper

‘24 year old....rap star…’

Class Textual analysis

IMAGE

• 3 colour scheme

Black, blue & yellow.

• Low angle shot:

Connotes dominace

• MLS (medium long shot)
• Mise-en-scene:

Styled as a pilot.

Aeroplane in the background.

Pilot costume.

Aviator shades links to the theme but also his star status.

White t-shirt reinforces star status.

• High key lighting (bright)

       emphasises star quality.

((low key lighting would mean dimly lit))

• Iconic US star (we all know who he is)

PAGE LAYOUT

• Masthead behind the cover star.

(Usher is more important at the time)

• Anchorage is Usher

Main cover line -reflects image and is big!

• Skyline: show's other stars

Purpose: to get people to buy it. Key selling point.

• QR code & Barcode.
• URL for website.
• Additional cover lines (mainly on the left; photography & is in columns to look neat)

Main cover line is on the right.

• Clean & simple font. (sans-serif font to keep to the modern style)
• (+) symbol is a puff.

LANGUAGE

• Formal ‘young and reckless’

Genre Evidence

• Cover star& skyline are the signifier of the genre.
• Mise-en-scene : designer shades & watch.
• Simple sans-serif font might reflect the genre.

AS MEDIA STUDIES FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO - CONTENTS PAGE

Textual Analysis


1) How many pages are used for the contents?
    Two pages
2)Are all editorial items listed? or just some of them?
   There are no editorials in this music magazine.
3)How many sections are there, and what are they? How have the sections and the pages been organised? Is there any order?
   There are 6 sections on the contents page

• cue
• industry insider
• features
• fashion
• tunes
• directory

they have been organised into columns across the 2 pages.
4)Which images are used? what are the connotations?
   The images are linkedwith the sections publitizing the articles within them. The images all have numbers to show what pages they can be found on as well as the contents page.
   

My Genre.

My chosen genre is R&B. I enjoy listening to R&B because of the way the melodies are. It originated from the US particularly from black artists in the. My favorite hip-hop artists are Partynextdoor, Future, Jacquees, Young Thug, Nicki Minaj, Drake & J Cole.

I find these artists so inspiring not only because of they songs and they way there sung the meanings  behind every song is always so strong and relatable. i like how i can just vibe with this particular genre. 

My two chosen magazines are 'xxl magazine' and 'Vibe magazine'.

Evaluation of Induction Assignment.

In class, our first task to get to know what media studies was about was to create a DPS (double page spread) about a music magazine on our top 5 favourite tracks. This meant we could choose any genre any artist. I thought hard about this as i didn't want to make it boring i wanted to make it really interesting and show off what i could do and show my creative mind off. I was originally going to do someone like Nicki Minaj or Beyoncé but as i looked at many artists i decided to do Rihanna and Drake. I imagined my work to be laid out simple but as i worked on it i changed the simple look and expanded on my idea.

I took a few pictures from Google images only because i couldn't capture my own images. I decided to have one half of the page a full image of my chosen celebrity which in this case was Rihanna. I had about two images of her followed by two image of Drake and spoke about the songs she did with Drake. This was all followed by captions and text boxes explain the whole article. I spoke about my top tracks and used quotes from songs to trigger people's heads whilst reading the article.

I had never used InDesign before so it was all new to me. I learnt how to import images and add text boxes. I also learnt how to make a drop cap. A drop cap is when the first letter of the paragraph is larger than the rest of the text and expands. My one expanded to about 3 lines down. I felt that this was a good thing to do as it looked great and added style. Which is skills that can be used later on in the course. If i could improve this i would erase the amount of writing only because the last textbox at the bottom of the page was very large and i felt like if someone saw that in a magazine they wouldn't want to read as much.

Tawny Harding.

Task 1: Production Schedule...

Tawny AS Media Blog.

Hey!

My names Tawny Harding, I'm a student at Leyton Sixth Form and im currently studying A-level Media Studies, BTEC Music, BTEC Performing Arts & EPQ pathway which I'm researching about music in.
My birthday is June the 3rd 2000. My birthstone is a pearl, SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE PEARLS OUT THERE!! I'm a gemini too so shoutout to you guys!!

My favourite genres of music are R&B, Hip-Hop, Pop & afro-beats. I like these types of music because they all tell different stories in different ways. R&B tell love stories but in a different way as to how Hip Hop would. i like how i can relate to songs in these genres as well.

Induction Article.