Acoustic
Double page spread analysis
On this
double page spread there is only 2 columns of text that are on the left page.
One is longer and one is shorter. This has the effect of drawing the readers in
because there is not a lot of text to read it is mainly pictures in articles to
look at. There are more pictures in this article to text so it is more
interesting to look at. When you look at the page your eye is immediately drawn
to the fact that there is a large amplifier on the right page of this spread
which is an advert. There are no sub-headings used in this article because there
is not a lot of writing just one story continued from the previous page. The
font that is used in the article is again an average style black font on a
white background because they contrast with each other. The colours in the
pictures on top of the white background go well because there are no clashes
and it makes the big black amplifier look a lot bolder.
The mode of address
for this article is to inform people about the new amplifier in a large over
the top advert across the whole right page. Some language effects that are used
in the spread are some alliteration on the right page that says ‘the pioneers
of acoustic amplifier innovation’ which
make it sound as though it does more things to the reader because there are
longer words. There is some sarcasm used in the article on the left page that
says ‘mud? No there is no mud at worthy farm!’ which he is being sarcastic
about because you can see from the picture that there is a lot of mud. One
other feature that is used in the left hand page article is a rhetorical
question that says ‘Now, where Is that Kinks album, and could you pass the foot
spa?’ It has been used to have the effect of leaving the reader thinking about
the article after they have read it. The focus of this article is to inform people
about Glastonbury festival from previous years so they are more tempted to go
to a future event there.
The images
are constructed in a random way; they don’t have a lot of organisation to them.
One of them is a large guitar slightly to the side of the right page and the
others are of Glastonbury on the left page. They also have random order to them
because there is a crowd of people at a concert and one girl on someone’s
shoulders higher than the rest of the people’s heads. The pictures on the left
page are framed so that one overlaps onto the others and creates a 3D look to
the article. It also makes it looks scruffier and as though it had been stuck
on at last Minuit. The facial expression that you can see on the spread is of
the girl on someone’s shoulders and she looks chilled out which connotates that
she’s having a good time at the concert. The dominant feature on the left hand page is
the text because it puts the images into their place in the article. On the
right hand page however the image is the dominant feature because there is only
one sentence of text used other than the image. There is also a picture used of
men dressed as unicorns for the children to make it funnier at the festival and
show how fun It is. The target audience is shown by having lots of different
features that would interest both genders and lots of different ages in the
article.
The overall
look of this article fits in with the branding by showing festivals to do with ‘acoustic’
festivals and instruments seeming that’s what the magazines supposed to be
about.
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