Analysis of a double page spread for music magazine

Analysis of a Double Spread Music Magazine

This double page spread is in vibe magazine, as I said in my analysis of a front cover they like to make the artist the main focus of the layout. The setting of this double page spread is that there is a picture of Singer Solange Knowles in large in colour, then 8 small images of her in a grey scale. The effect of this on the audience is that it makes us see that it is indeed all about her, and the fact that the smaller images are her dancing which brings the connotation of a stereotypical young girl just trying to have fun showing her bubbly personality. It also can be seen as everything is in a grey scale apart from the large image of her which always attracts the reader to look there.The costume that they have used in this double page spread denotes of a short red prom style dress with 'strappy' purple and pink high heels and a little fur coat. The short red prom dress style dress has many connotations, firstly it is stereotypical for a young girl to have a short dress due to the fact that she wants to show off her legs as the young generation like to show off as much skin as possible because they think that is what beautiful is. Also the colour of the dress is effective because red implies fiery, fierce, intensity and stands out in a crowd this could reflect her personality therefore the costume speaks for her she doesn't have to make her poses extreme. The heel has an impact on the audience because it makes the illusion of her legs looking longer and thinner. The little fur coat she has on can imply that she has a wild side. Her hair denotes to the audience big volume curls which connotes fun, carefree and adventurous character.There are not many stand-out props that we see in this double page spread the only one we see is the jewellery that she is wearing. This connotes that she is playful and one of the necklaces is colourful and the other one is long and gold which has effect on the audience telling them the she has money and she likes to flaunt it.In this double page spread the NVC (non verbal communication) shows us on the larger image of the singer shows that her facial expression is telling the audience she is bored or she is not really bothered, also the position of her arms is behind her back which can imply she is an open person or maybe she is vulnerable due to the position of her legs. However, the 8 different small images that is in the grey scale the NVC in them are fun, lively and playful. This therefore contrasts with the grey scale which is meant to be seen a boring but the poses/images are vibrant so it stands out. Vibe magazine has used both sans serif fonts and serif fonts, for the big headings they used the sans serif fonts, this has an effect on the audience because it tells them that it is modern and it catches their eye. But the serif font for the whole text shows us that they want to keep it balanced so they have an element of traditional in the writing. This is effective as this is the same sort of idea they had for the images, they wanted to do contrasts.