Textual analysis

For the textual analysis, I have to analyse 3 front covers, 2 contents pages and 2 Double page spreads. To analyse those pages, I have to tell what they have in common and what they have in different.

These are my front covers of each music magazines and my textual analysis of 3 front cover:

 

For DJ Mag front cover, we could see that they used lots of colours for its cover and used white colour for the background. They used lots of colours on the white background in order to make the front cover of this magazine looks very colourful. The colours on the front cover are used to attract the audience attention. On the top left corner it says DJ, the font size of the word DJ is really big and stand out so the audience can know exactly what the magazine is all about. It also says underneath the masthead "living and breathing dance music" to give the audience some ideas what the magazine is all about in case if the audience have no ideas what it means by DJ. They also highlight the cover lines with the colours that can be easy to read for example black with white and yellow with black, the colours were chose carefully in order to make the cover lines easy to read. For this magazine we couldn't see the model face so we don't really know who exactly is behind the mask, this also make the audience want to know how he/she is.

For Q magazine front cover, they used a beauty of the model to get the audience attention. The way the model touches her mouth makes herself looks very sexy and this the point of selling this magazine. The cover lines on this magazine are very easy to read as the size of the text and the colour of the text were chose carefully so they can be read by the audience easily. The cover lines are on the left side of the front cover so it doesn't come on the model as the model is the point to get audiences attention, the cover lines cannot be put on the model because it would make the picture of the model looks like it has less important than the cover lines. For the image of this magazine, the image is a Mid Close Up shot which was used to show her emotion on her face and also her body language. For the name of magazine they used red and white which make the name of this magazine stand out and can be easily to spot by its audiences.

For the XXL magazine, it doesn't have cover lines like most magazines, however the audiences could know straight away that this magazine is about rappers and rap music as they used Eminem as their model on the front cover. The font of the text that say Eminem is a see-through style, and it was chose to be like this so it doen't block his tattoo on the arm. If the font is a normal font that we cannot see-through we would know that he is about to pull his gun out. It says "vengeance is Eminem" and this is also link to emotion on his face and his body language as he looks really angry and about to pull the gun out. The model is topless showing his tattoo on his body which is the skeleton head that shows us about the death and violent that is going to happen. All of those are link together and make the audiences think what is going to happen in this magazine and this is how they make the audiences want to buy this magazine.

So what do they have in common?

• They have a point that make the audiences want to buy their magazine.
• The name of those magazine are stand out, all of them are in red colour which is  can be easily spot by their target audiences
• The DJ Mag and Q magazine have cover lines on them which give their audiences some ideas what is inside the magazines and what the magazines are about.
• The size and the colours of the text were chose carefully so they are easy to read.
• All of them have the barcode on the front cover and they have price of each magazine of the barcode incase if the barcode scannner doent's work.  

So what are the difference?

• The XXL magazine doen't have the cover line like the other two.
• DJ mag has much more cover lines than the other two.
•  The model on DJ mag has mask on so we couldn't really know who it is, this means that the model on the front cover of this magazine is not as important as the other two.
• For DJ mag, we couldn't know the emotion and the body language of the model as the mask is cover on the model face and we couldn't really the body language of this model as the colours on the magazine cover the body.