Preliminary Task: Front Cover Textual Analysis

The denotation of me looking at the college magazine cover automatically brings my attention to the main image and masthead. The main image is of a girl smiling, the shot taken is a mid shot and covers the majority of the magazine excluding the masthead. The background behind the girl is sort of blurred, which looks nice and calm because there is grass and trees.

The college masthead is plain and simple. It is directly above the girls head which in the middle covers the letter 'L' in the centre. There seems to be no blending of the colours for the masthead as it is only red. The font used is a sans serif type font. The magazine cover title reads 'college' so the magazine would mainly be related to college life or possibly a certain college in particular.

There is a dateline on the cover to show when it was published it is very small which is located underneath the masthead.

The girl in the main image is smiling towards the camera, as it is the main image it takes up the majority of the magazine cover excluding the top where the masthead is. To me, the main image stands out as the background behind her is blurry. The girl, herself looks happy in the picture which means the college she goes to is a happy place to be or that she enjoys college life. To the target audience mainly college students; this would make them want to go there as the girl is smiling and the background looks nice and green.

What the girl is wearing in the image is what any typical college girl would most likely wear to college. It is casual wear which is what most people would wear.

Her body language looks friendly; she is smiling towards the camera and standing in an upright position. Her hands are also by her sides, she is probably on college campus as the background behind her has grass and trees. The lighting is high key because it is bright and even.

On this magazine cover there appears to be five cover lines the font for each of their headings are different colours and sizes. Normally on a magazine the cover lines and little stories underneath them would be the same font. Also the bottom two cover lines are overlapping the main image which makes this clash between the main image which is the girl and the cover lines. I think this causes a distraction within the whole magazine cover because all you can see is writing coming off the girls arm lines are relatively the same size. There does not appear to be a main cover line which catches my eye because all of the cover lines are relatively the same size.

There's a barcode at the bottom right hand corner of the magazine which slightly overlaps the main image even though its at the bottom.

On this magazine there is no selling line which is usually above the masthead on most magazines that is meant to appeal to the target audience which in this magazine there was no selling line. There is also no website link on this magazine which means that the publisher of it does not have their own website.

I think that this magazine would appeal to college students both male and female but the majority female around the age of 16-20 who are looking for colleges because the magazine is about college and college life.

Induction: Movie Poster Textual Analysis

I am going to analyse the "Indiana Jones" film poster using image analysis.

Firstly when I look at the poster itself, I see a man standing there with quite a strong posture. The man is Indiana Jones the main character of the movie. His clothes look worn out and dirty as if he hasn't changed them in a while, he's also wearing a hat. The film already seems out dated by just a few of these things noticed. His face also looks dirty and sweaty as if he was walking for a long period of time or was involved in some sort of adventure.

From the poster you can see that Indiana is holding a whip in his left hand, so this gives me a clue that the movie is action/adventure based. Also in his right pocket, it looks as if there's a sword or gun in there. This means there could be some violence within the movie.

Where he's standing it looks as if he's outside a cave. But, like the name of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" behind him it looks as if its on fire is the crystal skull. The lighting for the whole poster used is low key lighting because its shadowy and also caves aren't bright.

As from how he's standing Indiana looks brave, this comes across to me straight away from when I look at the poster. His facial expression looks as if he takes no nonsense from anyone. He looks serious and ready for business. His fists are clenched which brings out a more masculine side. He's also making eye contact with the audience which shows he knows his picture was being taken at the time.

Anchorage on the poster is bold, stands out to the rest of the poster as it is in cartoon type looking. (sans serif). They obviously wanted to make the Indiana Jones bit stand out the most because it is the biggest and the colours are most bright and fire related; orange & yellow. The date on the poster is also pretty important so the audience know when the movie is coming out and also its bold and spaced out from the movie title.

Induction: Re-Creation Of a Movie Magazine Front Cover

This is the first task I have been given which was to duplicate an image using the programe Adobe Photoshop. I have experienced using a little bit of photoshop before. Although I am not experienced at using the programe photoshop I did try and attempt to dulpicate the image to the best of my ability.

As you can see from the original and the duplication image I did manage to put the title behind the head which went well. But I was not able to make the writing on either side of the main image become 3D-looking.

There are various things that I would change about my duplicated image; such as being able to make the writing 3D. Also adding a simple barcode image at the bottom right hand corner would have made it look a little more better. I should have included the little circle shape that was on the suit. And the sub title that said "Inception" & "Empire" I could have possibly made it a little more tall looking and darker in colour.

The background doesn't look as nice as I'd like it to look, using the blur tool I blurred out the people in the background as they were not in the original image. From where it says "Plus!" That area did not turn out as great as I thought, meaning I should have been more detialled there with the use of colour and weight in the line tools.