2. Genre of Music My artist is a new artist, who has recently just received a record label. The genre of music is pop, with a young female artist singing. This article introduces her, as she has never been announced before and gives some brief information on her.
3. Style, Features and Layout I included under my heading, a subheading containing a small paragraph on basically what my article is going to be about. I included a quote on my actual image, giving people a better understanding of the new artist. I included a folio, in order for the features page to look more realistic. I included all my text in a small paragraph, as there wasn’t a lot, and also it made it look much neater. I sectioned my heading and my subheading apart, I did this because I didn’t want too much going on in one part of the page. I placed my image along the right hand side of my features page, as commonly the right side is what people look at first.
4. House Colours I haven’t specifically created an house colour here. However, black seems to run quite a lot throughout the page, so this could be seen as a house colour. Black shows no emotion and suits both genders. With my front cover and contents page, I also want red to be a house colour, as red is commonly known to be quite a ‘wild’ colour.
5. Language Style/Mode of Address In my article, I didn’t specifically make the reader feel as if they personally knew the artist, this was hard because as they was a new artist, nobody had heard of them, so making it more personal was a lot harder. As the article was just information about the new artist, I didn’t really include humour. However if I did an interview with the artist, I would of then included humour and catchy language. I did use rhetorical questions, because as the magazine is aimed at teenagers, the article related in a way, making it seem more realistic.
6. Typeface I used serif font. I did this because although my magazine is a teenage magazine, I wanted my magazine with the features page as a ‘black and white’ theme to have more formal font than the rest of the magazine. I did this to reflect back on to the artist, of a more ‘formal approach’.
7. Photography The photography in my features page is indirect. The artist is looking down, as if they are in action. It isn’t supposed to be a posed image, it is supposed to look live as if they are actually recording in a music studio, but also as she is a new artist, that reflecting through the picture too. The image is on the right so it is the first thing you look at. Text overlaps the image, to show the use of ICT correctly but also to show layers, and make it look much more effective.
