1. Representation Analysis
Front Cover
The artist in the image is represented as mysterious and serious. This is presented by his
body language and facial expression, he isn’t smiling and is looking directly into the camera,
this forces the reader to wonder why his facial expression is so serious. Someone whose
body language shows this is usually associated with violence and aggression. The
background contrasts the picture, the picture is dark
and mysterious whereas the background is bright and
much happier, and this gives the effect that the artist is
a dark horse as he doesn’t seem to show much emotion
but is creative in his music production. The artist looks
fairly young so for someone of this age, they are
stereotypically known as being fairly disrespectful and
aggressive towards other, however this photo has a
rather unconventional twist with the combination of
bright colours and abstract art in the background it
shows a more creative and less aggressive side of the
artist. The text down the side is very colourful and
represents the audience and the artists as colourful
people who enjoy the more upbeat nature of this style
of music. The colours represent a wider audience as
there is a mixture of stereotypically masculine colours
such as blues and stereotypically feminine colours such
as pinks and purples. The costume that he is wearing is
smart casual and the white shirt has connotations of
purity and cleanliness which is coved by the darker
jacket symbolising that his purer side is hidden underneath his darker more serious side of
his personality.
2. Contents Page
The contents page has a white background which represents the contemporary
nature and cleanliness of the design. There is a very structured layout on this page and it
represents the magazine and its genre as very organised and clean. The images show many
aspects of this genre of music and it even shows some of
the technology used to create the music in this genre,
this represents the style of music and the audience as
being very open as they don’t mind showing their
audience some of the ways how they create the music.
This genre of music and the audience tend to have lots of
energy, this is shown in the magazine through photos of
some of the performances that take place which tend to
have lots of bright lights and pyrotechnics. This
represents the magazine as being modern and aimed at a
younger audience. The people in the pictures have a
neutral expression on their face represents the artists as
lacking strong emotions. This is a typical expression used
in images for this type of music magazines as it tends to
represent the artist as being distracted or zoned out
where they could be busy thinking of music that they are
trying to create. The technology in the picture represents
this genre of music as contemporary and new, where the
ways of making it require competent use of all the
software, equipment and computers
Double Page Spread
The artist inthe photoonthispage issmiling,thisrepresentsthe artistasa cheerful and
approachable person.Thisisconventioninaway to thisgenre of musicas the audience tendtobe
full of energyandcheerful.Howeverthisin
unconventional inawaybecause the majorityof
artistholdneutral expressionswheninphotoson
musicmagazines. The quote isveryinspirational and
representsthe artistasa caring personandalso a
personwhoisverytalented.These representations
are conventionalinthe waythatthe majorityof
artistsare youngand talentedandtheyalsoare very
happywhenthey performastheyenjoywhatthey
do.
