Contents research 3BY RYAN FRANKISH

Images

This image was captured at a high angle making the subject look small and innocent, however his pale make up makes him look very out of the ordinary and I also like how the subject is within the text wrapping of the contents, I may choose to use this in my music magazine.

Font

The font on this contents page is san serif, I think it is interpreted as quite a modern style of font and due to this fact I may choose to use it in my music magazine.

Text

The text on this contents page is reasonably small, however there is a lot of it considering it is a contents page, I am not a huge fan of this feature as I think this gives too much information away so I may choose to use less text on my contents page.

Links

There is a clear link between the colours as they are mostly very pale, I think the subject goes against Richard Dyers theory as he doesn’t really look like he has a specific genre.

Representation

I think this represents the subject of the contents as just an odd person, because he doesn’t seem to be adhering to any conventions of his genre.

Colour

I think the colours in this used are quite boring, I don’t think they give off any kind of energy, the pale colours used could be used to bring attention to the subject who is wearing a red suit, if this is the case I do not intend to do use an idea like this for my music magazine

Language

The language used on this contents page is not necessarily formal but there isn’t any slang, however there is a few quotes in there with some contractions and colloquial language therefore making it a consultatave register, showing formality with some aspects of casual speech thrown in.

Detail

On this contents page there is a lot of detail, I personally would not use this in my magazine as I think the contents should be very brief so the customer feels more obliged to read the article because they don’t know a lot about it.

Layout

I like the layout of this as the there is one column of text that is aligned to the left, however on the right it follows the shape of the image of the subject which is a feature I may choose to use in my magazine.