double page spread analysis of magazines

1. The magazine has decided to interview this
person/band ahead of their upcoming tour. The
magazine strongly does resemble a genre, as it’s
noticeable that it belongs to a music magazine.
This may be identified by the fact that around the
outside of each of the pages, there are multiple
lights, which indicate that the person./text writing in
the middle is important. It also resembles an
actor/singers mirror before they go out onto the
stage, the lights reflecting around their face to give
them a more brighter look. With the selected
grammar and the way that the magazine is
structured, it is evident that this magazine is
targeted towards older adolescents. The category of
this magazine I’d put under as a comedic musical
type of magazine. I can tell that this is true due
to the title of the magazine, dropping a sarcastic
comment about Friday “Do I ever have a casual
Friday?” which then could be further advised to talk
about his wild lifestyle of partying and drugs. You
don’t necessarily need to know a lot about the
artist to understand the references, you only need
to be associated with the type of genre of music,
as they’re all extremely similar. The background of
this magazine is rather plain, with a simple grey
background and text on one side of the page and
a picture of him on the other. The picture could
reiterate the importance of the band member, as
The questions that are asked in this magazine are actually
highlighted in white, in order to separate the questions from
the answers and make them more noticeable. In this there
is a sub title and title, however surprisingly the sub title is
in a bigger font than the title, which could add an element
of surprise, or refer to the upcoming rock star as an
Underdog as he's underappreciated however going on his first
tour which clearly shows his talent. The article isn’t that
long, Its only two pages however I suspect that there might

2. The magazine has decided to interview this person/band
ahead of their upcoming tour. The magazine strongly does
resemble a genre, as it’s noticeable that it belongs to a
music magazine. The magazine represents a clean neat
layout, with the colour co-ordination matching the colours
of the entire magazine and the photo. The artist that’s
been pictured is a well known established artist named
Jay-Z which may be the reason that they gave him an
entire page to himself. This highlights his importance to
the magazine and also allows them to show off the skills of
their photographers. The magazine also re-iterated that
he’s one of the most exciting people in the music industry,
which yet again shows us how highly they hold him. The
amount of text there is equal to the size of the picture,
even more in fact due to the small font and large
paragraphs that’s in the issue. I’d say that this magazine
would only be for teenagers and people older than that
due to the formality of the magazine. The article isn’t too
long and heavy due to the magazine knowing that the
readers would get rather tired of it, and made it rather
interesting. The large J in the middle of the text was
designed to grab the attention of the readers towards the
text rather than the picture.
In this article it talks about Jay-Z’s most recent success, which
constantly brings it up in many different ways. It talks about how and
why he earned this reward, and everything he’s done in order to get
there including making several no.1 songs, and bring up new artists
and singers and sign them to his record label. In terms of the layout,
the magazine is presented in two separate columns however is
presented on the left by a studio shot of Jay-Z.

3. The magazine has decided to interview this person/band
ahead of their upcoming tour. The magazine strongly
does resemble a genre, as it’s noticeable that it belongs
to a music magazine. Q magazine has chosen the
American singer Lana Del ray to be portrayed for their
magazine. I think this is recently after he latest album
won many awards, which then continues to the magazine
to tell us what happened and how she had to get there
and what she had to do to get to that point in her life.
The first page of the magazine shows us a studio shot of
her without most make up, giving us a more natural vibe
to her and what she looks like. Only three fingers of hers
are shown in the show, touching her throat with her eyes
closed and a rather normal expression to her face. This
highlights her natural beauty as well, which I think is what
the magazine was going for. On the right side of the page
we are greeted by two columns of writing. However in
this magazine the amount of writing is not equal to the
size of the picture, which questions the design and
normal amount that they do for other artists, which may
show us how unique Lana del ray is. In the studio shoot,
her expression is quite calm and careless, which could
then show us the serious direct address, reflects the
sense of passive confrontation.
The background of this picture is rather complex, which then may lead
me to believe that this isn’t actually a studio picture. However in order
to add more of an effect, they’ve blurred out the other objects in
front of her face to exacerbate her appearance. In this photo-shoot
her original idea was to represent what she views herself as, bruised
and broken.