Thursday, 24 November 2011

Textual Analysis Magazine Cover By O.J

Denotation: The colours used in this magazine are Red, White, Black and Grey four colours. Then there is a Young man in the centre of the magazine cover wearing casual wear which is a coat, t- shirt and jeans. This is a issue for the second to last in the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter 7 at the bottom in bold. With sentences and phrases on the left and right relationg to another adventure Harry Potter goes on in this movie.

Connotation: The colour Red connotates lots of sins, passion and anger which is interlinked with the film if you have watched Harry Potter, Black Connotates death and horror which is also in the film so these colours where picked specifically to interlink with what is involved in the film.

Props: The props is a  sword in this magazine cover which may be part of the fim but the prop used in Harry Potter films is a wand as he is a wizard. And casual clothes which are worn to not seperate him from normal people as he is specail as he has powers he is a wizard.

Barcode: A barcode is issued on magazines which is a common standard either put on the left or right bottom hand corner of a magazine so when purchaed the cashier will know the price of the magazine.

Masthead: The masthead is normally in the centre at the top of the magazine which is the visual branding of the magazine this one in particualar is done in bold which. The masthead is normally put on the front page and contents page and can also be used for branding purposes. This type face is sans seriff each magazine tries to make their masthead unique to seperatthem from different magazines.

Main Image: The main image is a classic picture if the main star of all the movies in the Harry Potter Series which is Harry Potter using a long shot to show is whole body.

Selling Line: The selling line or unique lesson for this magazine is placed at the top " The Mordern Guide To Movies."

Coverlines: For this issue film used alot of coverlines which are disrtibuted all around the magazine especially the left and ri=ght hand sides of the magazine and at the bottom.

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