Isla Henderson A-Level NEA Coursework Year 2

 

 

 

 Magazine Analysis 3 The ‘Vogue’ masthead is positioned across the top of the cover, reaching into each third to highlight the importance of the brand, indicating its large popularity as a mainstream style magazine. It’s colour is replicative of Emma Watson’s pale yellow outfit, highlighting that Vogue maintain a colour scheme throughout their covers to remain chic, organised and aesthetic. To the left of the masthead, there is a dateline of the shorthand month and the year, exemplifying that Vogue publish monthly, adding an insight to their reliability and popularity of maintaining a business despite only publishing their leading magazine 12 times a year. The main image is of Emma Watson as a model, turned to face the camera as she sits side-on, aligning her shoulder and face in the centre third of the cover, her back positioned in the lower left third. This is replicative of a classic photoshoot pose, implementing simplicity to the cover, to allow Watson to make the statement wit...

Magazine Analysis 2 The masthead of this ‘Variety’ cover sits at the top of the centre third of the page, allowing space for the main focus of attention to be directed at the main image of actor Noah Wyle. He is spread across each third of the cover, in a thoughtful pose that portrays him as a muse, with an ensemble of clothes that blend with the background; a marble wall of pale blues and gold create a royal effect of importance and luxury, suggesting that Wyle has a status of nobleness, alluding to his many nominations for TV awards. A pre-sold female audience who are fans of his ER drama shows may view this cover with respect and awe of Wyle, as he is presented as majestic, formal, and a heartthrob, persuading them to buy the magazine so they can learn more about his new TV show. Unlike other ‘Variety’ covers where the print maintains the colour scheme, the cover lines are in a black font that contrast the lighter tones in the image, drawing audience’s attention to them, imploring t...

  Magazine Analysis 1 The ‘Variety’ masthead sits at the top of the middle third of the cover, creating subtle attention towards the brand, however not distracting from the main image of Kate Winslet by enlarging and stretching the masthead across each third as conventional mainstream magazines such as ‘Vogue’ do. The chosen colour is an off-white, similar in shade to Winslet’s outfit to maintain the beige colour scheme and not divert attention away from the message of the cover; it can be interpreted to display the simplicity of representing a woman as powerful and inspirational without sexualising or stereotyping them. Winslet is against a background of a fawn, floral wallpaper which matches the silky mattress she is sat on, creating an image of organisation and simplicity, subverting the conventional use of colourful contrasts in a magazine. The muted tones emulate the modesty of the image, with Winslet wearing off-white loose trousers and a button-up shirt, implying a sense of...