12. Main Task: Double Page Spread Textual Analysis

Denotation: A double page spread magazine page,it has a man looking throwing his head down holding a microphone whilst there are other images of the guys playing musical instruments

Connotation: they are all musicians and likely to be in a band together

Mise en sence

- Lighting: The lighting is rather obscure in this picture as it is a black and white image; however there is light shed on each artist from an angle possibly to highlight importance and significance.

- Costume: the costume of the man in the more dominant image is casual and modern, a top a denim jacket and a pair of jeans, plus floppy longish hair to enforce that rockstar/musician stereotyped image. The other characters are dressed similarly t-shirts and jeans.

- Props: The props in the image enforce the rockstar/musician image. The use of microphones recording equipment and guitar hints that this article is covering a musical element

- Setting: in the main image it isn’t very obvious but it seems as if the man is standing on stage and it the bottom right images 1^st and 2^nd it can be assumed that they are in the studio due to the use of equipment

- Non-verbal communication: The nvc displayed in this image shows confidence in whatever talent they all possess you have the dominant image staged in a very rock like manner as if he just laid down a really good vocal. You also have another image of a man with his mouth wide open over the mic, showing confidence and great ability, the image of the three guys conveys cooperation with one another and the male holding the guitar displays confidence in what he is doing.

Magazine conventions

-Heading: ‘The were being the best Mcr’ Heading is very bold, it suits the type of genre of this music magazine it gives the audience a clear understanding on what type of genre it is. The way the font is used is effective it is big and stands out, it gives the audience the feel of music, hard heavy music portrayed in the layout and size of the masthead.

- Dateline: here there is no dateline this may be because the dateline has previously been stated on the front cover

- Main image: The main image on this double page spread is an image of band members of my chemical romance. Main image is of the lead singer. It takes up a large proportion of the page to signify importance and dominance.