Semiotic analysis of 3 Music Magazine

 

 Here are some semiotic analysed music magazine front covers. The magazine covers I have analysed connect with the genre of my final design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My School Magazine- Preliminary Task

My School Magazine

This is my school magazine. For this I decided to have my cover photo as a smart year seven in uniform with a school as the background. This mid-shot is effective as you can see enough of his body to tell he is a year seven.
I decided to call my magazine "Brainy" because

School Magazine Contents Preliminary Task

Contents Page

Here is my contents page. I have made the writing green this time as it is neither a feminine colour nor a boyish colour. the picture of the school entrance presents the school as opening.

Task 7 Preliminary Task

I have chosen this photo as my final photo as the boy looks especially smart and looks happy to be going to school, which year sevens want to be doing. Also, as I did this photo at a different time, the doors to the school are open which is different to the other photos. However I am going to edit this photo as follows.




















Here I have made the boy look younger by blurring out the spots.
Also I have sharped up the clothes by darkening the brightness.
finally by changing the colour balance I have made the mood more bright and it focuses on the boy at the centre of the page.

My Photo Shoot- Preliminary Task

Planning My Photo Shoot

For my front cover I am going to have a picture of a year 7 student looking smart in his new school uniform.
The boy will have he tie done up with his top button done up.
In the back ground there is going to be a school with him on the drive way going towards the school, as if he is on his journey.
The boy will be smiling showing he is happy to be going to school, excited to learn.
The props I'm going to need are: a school bag, smart uniform and school books.


Here are some potential ideas for the front cover:


1) Here the boy is in full uniform, looking very smart.
He has his bag over his shoulder and is holding on to it as if he is about to embark on his journey, happy to be doing so.
In the background there is a school with open doors ready to welcome all.







2) Here the boy is holding books prepared for school. Again you can see the background





















3)Here he has just got the bag over one shoulder looking casual and ready to embark his journey into school life.

















4) Here he is looking through his books, again ready for school in uniform looking smart.

Non-Music Magazine Conventions

Non-Music Magazine

Representation of women

•specialise in maintaining the reputation in the public eye of celebrities who normally would have ‘fallen by the wayside’ or been replaced by others – Katie Price and Peter Andre are prime examples as their constant reinvention is tracked by Heat and other Gossip magazines.

 

 

•Women are often seen as "meat" they are sexualised and often had little clothes on. seducing the camera

 

Target Audience

•the magazines tend to have gossip in them.

•primary audience tend to be 18-35 while women who are 35-55 are the secondary audience

Colours

The cover uses bright, and use primary colours such as red blue and yellow and high key lighting which anchor the codes and conventions of the Gossip magazine genre and identify target audience.

 

Masthead

The masthead is left justified in red, lower case, serif, blocky font using shadow to make the text more creative and recognisable in terms of brand identity – the style of the font would stereotypically appeal to a female target audience.

 

Image

The image is normally photography of the celebrities, some of which captured in their private life.

The bottom left cover line reinforces stereotypes inferring surprise that men would want to get with the woman show, e.g here!