music textual analysis

music textual analysis

Textual Analysis of Music Magazine of Rolling stone- 800 words

Masthead

The Masthead is mostly covered by the size of the photography which empowers Amy Warehouse’s status and the denotation to the body language connotes the unimportance of the main title, ‘Rolling Stone’. Also this unusual change was purposefully done to create a statement to the audience and continues a trend that they use to empower the celebrity status. In addition, ‘Rolling stone’ is universal title which is well known to public eye so main image can cover most of the masthead.   The master head uses a Serif front, the first letter of each word is not joined but the rest of lower case letter are joined together, and this connotes old fashion tradition. The Rolling stone Masthead has a distractive look: blue with white lining and a black backdrop. The magazine cover has masculine colours (black, red and light blue) to portray their target audience and these are British men, aged between 25 and 40. Also the masthead has rock n roll theme that is historically dominated by a male audience. Although featuring a female celebrity can change the perspective to a female position, the magazine still appeal to mostly male audience. 

Main image 

The magazine cover features a colour photograph of a female music celebrity, ‘Amy Winehouse’ directly looking upwards to face the audience eye to eye. Also it is a medium close up shot with a steady camera angle. As the magazine is music based, her tattoo represent the independence of her music career and also the image of females on her arms shows she find them inspirational because there are independent and provocative women who made big choices to be their own individual.

Costume:

The model, Amy Wine house wears a low-cut black vest as the main costume; her blue bra strap is also visible. Her pose imitates the tattoo image being suggestive and alluring. Even though the costume wasn’t carefully picked her cleavage is clearly shown and its look sexually appealing to the male target audience. Amy’s costume shows how the magazine, ‘Rolling Stone’ kept their tradition of using female celebrities to be their attraction for the male audience. Amy has a 60’s beehive hairstyle which full up most of the front cover and her simple make up is shows her usual characteristic style, example, the black eye liner flicks backwards from her eye lid.

Lighting:

On Amy’s face, the high key lighting complements the air brush effects by creating a smooth and healthy skin tone on her face making it look believable but can be contradicted with paparazzi shots of her without make up.  Also the glowing skin tone may be designed to introduce Amy as a new person that is ready to reveal her secret past.

NVC:

The camera angle directly focus on the male traits (tattoo) to convie..... However her facial expression define the demure gaze that can mislead the audience by  head position . Also the tattoo sigifnal her interest of the 1960’s tattoo style and that shows her independane and also her feminine side though the non verbal communication.  Also the chosen the model relates to the title because.... body pouser shows lanziness. Also the model represents the target audience because...... The pose …..

Setting:

Main Coverlines                                  

The magazine cover has three separate cover line that has completely different propose. The main cover line, ‘The diva and her demons’ gives an summary towards Amy Winehouse life. Also the main cover line refers to her successful career as ‘The diva’ but she is mostly known by her history of drug alcohol and bad relationship and this is known as ‘her demons’. The main image making statememnt by revealing her hiddern sercect to the plubic also adverting  herself by showing new person.......... All of the cover line use a serif front, connoting tradition also the short quotation is coloured in red which connote danger, evil and blood. This have relate to Amy Warehouse’s history has several records of asscult.......

The magazine features Amy Warehouse to be their front cover, she is know by her famous music, ‘rehad’ but she is mostly attracted by her past of drug addiction and court cases. The cover line, ‘’the diva and her demons’ summarys her life as it shows and secret revaletion towards the audience.  Also the cover line is

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Target Audience:

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