Analysis of Double Page Spreads…

NME MagazineThe image is a long shot of Florence and shows the aggressive side of her with the use of black materials emphasising the red colour of her aggressive and violent like looking hairthe font is a curly looking feminine typeface, Lucinda handwriting is its name and gives the viewer an added feel that she is a woma as well as powerful, she does have two sides of her feminine quaint ==, decorative side but then also the sexy and confident with her femininity,backing uo this feminine feel is also the short skirt or attire pointing out her long sleek bare legs and heeled boots, giving us an impression of her powerful side, she has most definetly “got the love”.The background and writing is all colourless and grayscale and dull and with the reds  of Florence and what shes sat on show her fire and passion and draws the readers eye straight towards her.

The uncluttered nature of the spread shows the editors confidence in Florences image and the writing that is there so that the reader can take time to let her beauty and the writings essence soak into their mind rather than being bunged up with other stuff on the page.the lighting on Florence comes from the direct front making her quite pale and white and contrasts with her skin adding to her duality of effeminate woman to passionate and powerful , almost sexual reds.The lighting also gives an appearance of nothing is hidden in shadow, the light she is bathed in is her essence and shes showing and giving all as a part of her music.

Linking to the ‘’Gospel according to…’’ the article is set like the ten commandments under different headings of ‘’Thou shalt…’’, aswell as that suprislingly little profanity is used aswell as the archaic religious language such as ‘’Thou shalt’’ draws the attention of the audience due to the alternative methods used to most of Nicki Minajs releases in the media.

The style of this page is interesting because it isnt settoo heavily structured, it has lines of text in columns but they are aligned to the left and their isnt an average length of the paragraphs and the paragraphs on the right of the page form around Minaj’s body, presenting her free willed body from having the text move in a variety of ways around the page.

The colour scheme is in bright pinks and bold blacks to establish the artist aswell as linking her to her album’pink Friday’ and gives off a colourful and more individual personality and approach in the readers eyes.

Nicki’s pose , makeup and facial expression also draws in people by seeing her individual style you can tell she is a one of a kind exceptional artist bringing in a new perspective into hip hop.Her off centre position shows her domination of the page and the readers eyes on both sides of the page, much like how she is dominating the music market at the time being.

Very large L takes up an entire page.Links to Gagas name(Which is also the first word in the article) and replicates the Q’s font , colour and logo.

Lady Gagas name is the title of the page.The fonts used in the title show the duality of gaga, Lady is in fancy scripture, in lower case showing her femininity and classyness but then the larger CAPITAL GAGA showing her emphasis and outlandishness compared to many other artists.

2 Drop capitals strangely in the middle of the article

Sexual photo of Lady Gaga to attract the male eye because she is clad very thinly and barely covers her breasts with her hands.

Grayscale colour scheme to look more classy and vintage with the red contrasting this dull effect and picking up more attention from the reader.