This is a presentation analysing a music magazine cover and talking about the different features it includes and why the image on it helps the magazine sell more and other things like rule of thirds, how it appeals to the target audicence, what story the photograph tells and more.
3. What has the photo been taken for?
• A interview in the magazine and also to get
people to buy the magazine as the photo may
be off someone that they like.
4. What type of photography is it and
how do you know?
• It is portrait as, it mostly just contains the
person's face and shoulders with some of
their torso in shot as well. This is most likely
so they could fit the text as, a bigger image
would mean it would be harder to put text on
the cover but not cover up the image.
5. Discuss the framing and what type of
shot and angle has been used and why.
• The shot that has been used is a medium close
up as only the waist up of the person is in
shot. The angle they have used is lined up
with the person in shot as there facing
straight towards the camera so, this could be
to draw people's attention more.
6. Discuss the composition.
• The background used in the shot is a simple
brick wall which appears to be a white colour.
In the foreground we have, a person in a black
shirt with red flowers on holding up a vinyl
record. The rule of thirds would be the person
and the record as they would sit on the lines
making them important.
7. Discuss the focus.
The image is in focus as it is clear and easy to
see what is going on in the image and it is
quite well detailed. If it wasn’t in focus, then
nobody would buy the magazine as it would
look cheap and not of high quality.
8. How has the mise-en-scene been
used?
The setting is quite bland as it is just a white
brick wall with no detailing on it. The person
in the image is wearing a black shirt with
some red roses on it. He then has a red and
black vinyl record in his hand as the main
article about him appears to be about which
record ‘changed his life’.
9. How does the photograph ‘anchor’ the
text or written material?
It keeps the picture in the centre and the main
focus of attention to help promote it and
keeps most of the text away from the image
to not cover it and the only text to cover the
image is about the person in the image.
This means that everyone will be drawn to the
image first as it is in the middle, as there is a
theory that people would usually pay more
attention to the object in the middle than the
ones to the sides.
10. How does it promote or market the
product?
It promotes it as they are a famous singer or
band artist on the front cover, so they would
have a large fan base which will buy the
magazine and future issues as someone who
they like was in one of the issues.
11. How does it appeal to the target
audience?
It appeals to the target audience as the person
on the cover would be someone who they like
as well as their music.
12. What story does the photograph tell?
• That someone likes vinyl because he’s holding
a vinyl record in his hand. This might also
affect the main story as the text beneath is
talking about vinyl records.
13. How does it increase sales?
Because the person on the cover might be
famous or has a large fan base so their fans
would buy this magazine as they are on the
cover.
