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Music Mags• The front cover is a persuasive selling tool. They attract and
motivate audiences to purchase the product.
• They go to great lengths to make their magazine jump out from the shelf & establish their own identity to cultivate a brand loyalty.
• The front cover shapes readers expectations and reader are invited to join communities with distinct cultural identities.
• We read from left to right and from top to bottom. So the prime position for important info is on the top left hand corner.
• Consider the layout and graphology ( the size & shape of the font) & colours used.
Sentence Functions
•Declaratives: making a statement
•Imperatives: giving orders
•Interrogatives: asking questions
•Exclamatives: surprise or alarm
Tricks of Language
•Rhyme
•Alliteration
•Sibilance
•Assonance
Intertextuality
•Where we are reminded of another form of media or saying.
•eg ‘Boys r us’.
•In music mags often refer to films
•Enticements
•plugs
Contents Page
•We read magazines in a non linear fashion.
•use contents page to orienteer
•we can skip to articles or bands we are interested in
•a set agenda which remains constant througout issues
Information value: the placement of elements that reflect their importance
Saliance- the relative size of subjects that reflects it worth
Framing devices- connect or disconnect elements
Editorial
Consider the relationship between the text producer
and the reader.In a music magazine it is primarily to review and
recommend. In the editorial the style
corresponds to the style of the magazine