- Denotation: This magazine has a picture of a women looking directly at the camera, it is a mid shot showing her head, arms and a little of her waist. The background is not visible as there is nothing going on it is just a plain white background, and the photograph covers the whole page of the magazine cover. Behind the women there is the 'Vibe' Masthead, and in front of her are 6 covers-lines which are in blue, black and pink. The photographed women’s' name is in blue and her name uses the biggest font of the cover-lines. The barcode is clearly placed were it could be seen on the bottom right corner. - Connotation: The woman looks sexy, she might be a photographer, or she might be in a photo shot.
- Costume: The women is wearing casual clothes this connotes the normal look for a women on a normal day, her costume looks like summer clothes which connotes that it is a hot day or she is on holiday. Her jeans are a bit lowing and you can see her see-through tights this could also connote that this magazine is got to do with women's 'sexy fashion.'
- Props: The women is holding a camera in her hand up close to her face, this connotes that she is going to take a picture or she loves photography/taking pictures. She also has a lot of jewellery such bracelets and a ring on both hands this connotes that the women is really interested into fashion or she has to be dressed like this for this type of magazine.
- Setting: This front cover of the magazine does not have a setting as the background is just a plain white background. This could be that they have used Photo Shop for the image and cleared out the background to suit the magazine style.
- Non-verbal communication: The women's NVC shows her mouth open this connotes that she is a very confident and beautiful women, the way she is standing with her hand holding her jean connotes that she is confident with her body and loves being photogenic.
- Anchor: The font used in this front cover magazine suit the genre of the magazine, the way they have designed and used the font the title and cover lines gives the audience a strong understanding of what type of genre the magazine will be about.
Magazine conventions
- Masthead: The 'Vibe' Masthead is not very distinctive, as it does not have a drop shadow or outline. The way the font used is effective as it is big and bold; the Masthead connotes a cool hip hop magazine.
- Dateline: The dateline on this magazine front cover writes ‘April 2008’ which connotes that the publication of this magazine is for the month April.
- Main image: The main image on this magazine front cover is a Janet Jackson she is a successful American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, actress, film producer and author. She appears frequently in the magazines, epically in the Vibe magazine. She is posed in a very sexual way, she looks very confident. She is the only person on the page so she has self-centred herself with the audience, her pose, body language and clothing are all very sexually suggestive.
- Cover-lines: The cover line that says ‘Rihanna: Exposed’ this could connote that Rihanna has been exposed to something and they are purposely writing this cover-line to catch the audience’s attention and to make the audience read/buy this magazine.
- Main cover-line: The main cover-line relates to the main image which says ‘Janet Jackson likes to watch’ this is referring to the image that it is her name and how she likes to watch, this connotes music, movies etc.
- Left third: In the left third of this magazine front cover are some cover-lines and the barcode.
- Barcode: The barcode is a very simple barcode which is used by retailers. On top of the barcode is the price of the magazine and on the left side of the barcode is the dateline these are both in standard and simple font.
- Selling line: The selling line on this music magazine front cover says: ‘He’s free, but is he good? The untold story of Busta Rhymes. The selling line is short, sharp and snappy which catches the audience attention and making them what to ready what the untold story is.
- Website link: The website link is ‘vibe.com’ it is placed on the right side of the barcode. The website link is shortened and it is place where it is hard to been seen. The connotation of this website link is to go on the site for more information if you are interested.
- Target audience: I think the target audience is likely to be for younger people, such as teenagers and young adults both being female and male around the age of 14-21. This target audience would have a good knowledge on this character and type of music, so this will define the audience’s interest in different ways. These audiences are more likely to be still in education or working,people who have an interest in the Hip Hop wave.
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