This document analyzes pictures of various musical artists and discusses what each picture connotes about the artist's personality and how the picture would be used. The Michael Buble picture shows excitement and uniqueness in its unusual framing. The Cee Lo Green picture focuses closely on just him, conveying his straightforward personality. The Scissor Sisters photo introduces the eccentric band and shows closeness between the members that breaks from mainstream norms. The Take That black and white photo suggests reminiscing of past memories as a united yet individually expressive group.

1. Picture Analysis

2. Michael Buble The white background Round the outside of the picture connotes its For a front page, the space around the picture is where the font and skylines would Fit. The picture is interesting because It is different and exciting which connotes buble’s personality been exciting ,new fresh and different This picture is technically hard to construct. They would have had to slow the shutter speed to stop the blur effect.

3. Cee Lo Green This photo is more close framing. Focusing on artist himself connoting this picture is for a contents page. Showing who the magazine features. Cee lo looking straight at the camera connoting he is trying to portray who is straight to the audience and is quite forward with how he does so The picture connotes cee lo’s personality been quite big yet subtle and refined yet his life is still in a mess.

4. Scissor Sisters The photo would have been used for either a contents or double page spread, its more like introducing the group to the audience This shoot connotes to us the lead signers are closer than thought but they are closer like “sisters”. It connotes that he is more towards the feminine side because firstly he is closest one to the women in the band and also the mise en sene connotes more of a dress than a ussual manly clothes. He is proud of who he is. The “men” are at the back who are more in touch with there masculine side however they are still close suggesting the band breaks away from the original mould of main stream artists and instead is quite eccentric

5. The saturdays This picture is for a front page for several reasons. Firstly it has enough space around the edges to fit in the font and skylines, They are also all in the centre giving room for font around the outside. Taken in a distressed, unwelcoming enviroment connotes the artists can look as good in that enviroment as they can in a normal fashionable enviroment. It sexualises and entices readers in by showing that they still can look fashionable in an unwelcoming setting. They are are all looking at the camera this is makes them try to engage with the audience and identify with them also it makes the audience want to buy it because its like they are addressing them with by looking straight at them

6. Take that The photo would have been taken for a double page spread due to the length of the photo also none of them are looking at the camera connoting to the audience we already know who they are so we dont need to see there faces. The picture in black and white suggests that they are like old friends or reminiscing past times yet they are back together and ready to make new memories this is emphosised by gary reading what looks Like an old photo Album. The picture suggests that they are all together as one unit because they Are all on the sofa together with the end artists looking in however they are all doing different things suggesting that they still have there own individual ways of doing what they do this is also emphosised by the variation in clothes