This document analyzes conventions of magazines and posters. For magazines, it discusses common elements like the headline, image, date, and promotions. For posters, it examines how color, character positioning, word emphasis, and slogans/taglines can be used to convey meaning and foreshadow elements of the story. Red may symbolize danger or conflict, while blue could indicate depression. Black is often associated with fear, evil, and death. The direction characters face and colors used in words can provide clues about conflicts between characters and hardships they may experience. Overall, the poster aims to hint at the plot and get viewers interested in learning more about the characters and story.

1. Magazine and poster analysis
By Artur Rudzinski

2. Magazine Conventions
Main headline
Strapline
Masthead
Cover Lines
Main image
Barcode
Date
Price
Promotion
“Star Appeal”
Richard Dyer
Slogan

3. Poster
Colours: Use of primary colours to
show a characters’ meaning in the
soap. Red symbolises that danger is to
come and that the character coloured
in red is going to bring conflict into the
play. They are the 2 main themes of
this play. Yellow may symbolise that
the character is not brave or simply a
coward in the play which may bring
problems within the show. Blue may
symbolise that the character is
depressed and has feelings of
melancholy possibly towards someone.
The colour black is used throughout
the whole poster. Black is usually
associated with a negative connotation
of fear and the unknown. It also
represents evil, death, power and
elegance. This may foreshadow that we
may run into characters who will
represent all these factors in the show
which can make the audience feel like
“survivors” (Maslow) as they may want
to know more about the story and its
characters.
Presentation: The direction in which
the characters are facing is opposite to
one another. This may connote that
the conflict is between the characters
shown in the poster, however they all
have different attributes and their
stories affect the main storyboard in
different ways.
Word Emphasis: The word “YOUR”
has been coloured in blue in the
poster. This may mean that the
slogan “Adulthood breaking your
bones” may be targeted at the
character colour in blue which may
foreshadow that there will be
events that include that character
and that she will go through hard
times in the show.
Cross meaning: the slogan and the
tag line “In 2013…life hits you” can
be connected together. This means
that the poster is trying to say that
physically adulthood may affect you
but mentally life can “hit” you
harder which the play is trying to
demonstrate.