Look carefully at the front covers ofMOJO andRNRmagazines.
QUESTION: How far doMOJOandRNRusedifferentmedia language to createdifferent connotations? (CONNOTATION meaning: an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning.)
Answer on your blog. This is a high-value question and should take all lesson to answer. You can use the class blog search engine for more examples of how to analyse music magazines.
In your answer you should have 2 paragraphs:
- analyse the media language in MOJO and RNR magazine. 'Media language' includes the placement of the main image, the type of photography, lighting, colours, fonts, how busy or restrained the cover is, the layout (such as alignment to the margins), how serious or playful
- make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language is used differently in both extracts to create different connotations. Are there similarities in both covers? What sorts of audiences are they targeting? You could think aboutMOJO's rock aesthetic of living loud and dangerously compared toRNR's folk, rock, blues vibe.
The Mojo magazine is more full, with brighter colours. The bands name "Foo Fighters" is in the middle of the page in big bold letters. This attracts the readers attention to the band, its also being held by Dave Grohl, looking like he's fighting it, and he looks like he's ready to fight. The cover mount is eye-catching with its bright green colour, and its different because its a skeleton, and would attract a reader, it also attracts people who like the rock genre. This magazine cover adds to mojos aesthetic of living loud, with the bright colours and David Grohl, who looks like he might be shouting. - The RNP magazine cover is a lot more calm, there's less going on, and it has a more organized layout. The background colour is a warm brown, and Christy Moore who is in the centre of the page, is looking directly at the camera, inviting the reader in, and he's smiling, showing that this is a more calm, chilled magazine, the opposite of mojo's aesthetic 'living loud'. This is attracting an older audience, because on the cover its has a quote talking about how these days all he does is yoga and drink comomile tea. This fits in with RNPs folk aesthetic. this magazine uses warmer colours rather than Mojo who has bright puffs, whereas RNP has a warm brown throughout and the titles are all in white.
