Representation AnalysisFront Cover

The artist in the image is represented as mysterious and serious. This is presented by his body language and facial expression, he isn’t smiling and is looking directly into the camera, this forces the reader to wonder why his facial expression is so serious. Someone whose body language shows this is usually associated with violence and aggression. The

background contrasts the picture, the picture is dark and mysterious whereas the background is bright and much happier, and this gives the effect that the artist is a dark horse as he doesn’t seem to show much emotion but is creative in his music production. The artist looks fairly young so for someone of this age, they are stereotypically known as being fairly disrespectful and aggressive towards other, however this photo has a rather unconventional twist with the combination of bright colours and abstract art in the background it shows a more creative and less aggressive side of the artist. The text down the side is very colourful and represents the audience and the artists as colourful people who enjoy the more upbeat nature of this style of music. The colours represent a wider audience as there is a mixture of stereotypically masculine colours such as blues and stereotypically feminine colours such as pinks and purples. The costume that he is wearing is smart casual and the white shirt has connotations of purity and cleanliness which is coved by the darker

jacket symbolising that his purer side is hidden underneath his darker more serious side of his personality.

Contents Page

The contents page has a white background which represents the contemporary nature and cleanliness of the design. There is a very structured layout on this page and it represents the magazine and its genre as very organised and clean. The images show many

aspects of this genre of music and it even shows some of the technology used to create the music in this genre, this represents the style of music and the audience as being very open as they don’t mind showing their audience some of the ways how they create the music. This genre of music and the audience tend to have lots of energy, this is shown in the magazine through photos of some of the performances that take place which tend to have lots of bright lights and pyrotechnics. This represents the magazine as being modern and aimed at a younger audience. The people in the pictures have a neutral expression on their face represents the artists as lacking strong emotions. This is a typical expression used in images for this type of music magazines as it tends to represent the artist as being distracted or zoned out where they could be busy thinking of music that they are trying to create. The technology in the picture represents this genre of music as contemporary and new, where the ways of making it require competent use of all the software, equipment and computers

Double Page Spread

The artist in the photo on this page is smiling, this represents the artist as a cheerful and approachable person. This is convention in a way to this genre of music as the audience tend to be

full of energy and cheerful. However this in unconventional in a way because the majority of artist hold neutral expressions when in photos on music magazines. The quote is very inspirational and represents the artist as a caring person and also a person who is very talented. These representations are conventional in the way that the majority of artists are young and talented and they also are very happy when they perform as they enjoy what they do.