music magazine analysis 3

Denotation:

The magazine cover composes mixture dark and dull colours in the photograph.  The artist is directly looking at the camera; it is a medium long shot showing from her knees to her head. The background of the photograph is white, also her vest. This lets the subject stand out from the background. The photograph is spread across the whole of the magazine cover; likewise the artist head and arm in the photograph is slightly overlapping the masthead. All the cover lines are placed over the photograph of the women. However the name of the artist is big, bold and sharp in the corner. The cover lines in black are names of celebrities and headlines, there is a quote used to excite the audience “Keyshia Cole talks …” There is a barcode at the bottom corner. There is also a selling line at the top of the magazine saying “illest men’s magazine”.

Masthead:

King masthead is simple: black, bold, sharp text. The font used is a serif font; the font is very similar to scratch magazine. King magazine published by Harris Publications, and was a spin-off from XXL. King magazine is a music, sport, fashion and entertainment magazine purely for a male audience. The word King has a lot of definition to it as its stands for “a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usu. by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people”. In this case it is indicated that men have power over women.

Character:

The cover photograph is of a successful American singer ‘Keyshia Myeshia Cole-Gibson’. 

Composition:

She has a sexual look to her as her facial expressions shows it all. She gazes directly at the camera with her mouth open, with one arm on her waist and the other on her thigh, grabbing the male audience attention. Her posture show’s her sexual side just by her non-verbal communication and lack of clothes.

Costume:

Her clothing, she has a low cut white round-neck vest top showing her arms and her breast full cleavage, she is wearing two chains across her neck and a diamond love heart as his pendent, the love heart could be symbolic to her love life.

NVC:

His non-verbal communication is very seductive, with her mouth open.

Lighting:

The lighting is high key it is used really effectively, as the lighting in her face is bright.

Setting:

From what I can see the setting would be most likely to be in a studio, as I am aware that the background is white.

Cover-lines:

The different cover lines tells us that this magazine doesn’t concentrates on not just music, but draws references to celebrity’s life’s. Artist mentioned on cover lines keyshia Cole, basket ball player mentioned is Paul Chris, and model Tahiry. From what I can tell by the cover lines, king magazine focuses on female artists to advertise the front cover of the magazine.

Target audience:

Considering all of these points, the targeted audience would be mostly be (male) as the photograph is very sexual, and seductive, also at the top of the magazine it indicates what kind of audience the magazine it designed for. King magazine is geared toward African American and urban audiences. I think the age range for the magazine would be 25-40 because adults age 25 and above find it appealing and attractive when ladies or gents pose in a very sexual way to advertise a product.