Preliminary Task:Front cover textual analysis

DENOTATION:

The magazine cover consists of a colour photograph of a man looking directly at the camera. It is a mid shot showing him from the waist upwards. The background of the photograph is grey b-black and the photograph covers the whole magazine cover. Behind the man is the college masthead, and in front of him are seven separate cover-lines in yellow and white. The photographed man’s name is white. The bar code is visible on the left hand side corner.

MASTHEAD:

The college's masthead is very simply yellow. the colour used (yellow) is a happy and uplifting colour. it can be associated with intellectual thinking:discernment,memory,clear thinking and good judgement. the word college is associated with learning and students this means that this magazines has all of the connotations associated with college.

CHARACTER:

The cover photograph is of Caribbean dance-hall artist Jefferey Assassin Campbell

COMPOSITION:

He is posed in a very proud kind of way. His pose,body language, and clothing are urban and college students are more likely to dress this way.

COSTUME:
His clothing is a plain white top,a black jacket, cross chain and dark grey jeans with a belt. This costume has been chosen carefully to appeal to the target audience of the magazine, who are most likely to be students or young adults.the law and society books in his hand suggests that he went through school and was successful with a smile on his face

NVC: His non verbal communication is also very important.a smile books and he is well groomed , and he is also looking straight at the camera.
LIGHTING:the lighting is high key.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

considering all of the points, the likely target audience would be young adults(college and university students).They would have a good knowledge of urban culture. they are likely to be well educated and have an interest in college/urban culture.

INDUCTION:MOVIE POSTER TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

From looking at his costume i can tell that he is a warrior or hero. the props that he has the whip, rope and gun make him look prepared to fight and these props are usually have connoptations of death danger and power. Although the gu tells us that he needs it for protection as he is going to get into some kind of trouble.


The skull in the background makes the movie look like there is death behind his adventure.the lighting of dark then light in the middle makes it look serious.

his posture conotates that strong, independent and in charge and in control of everything.


The tiltle "INDIANA JONES title" seems verty cartoonish which makes him look like a comic character and also seems like there is also comedy involved because of the title

The engravings/ carvings tells me that it is set in the past and ity makes it look abit old fashioned

INDUCTION:Re-Creation of a movie front cover

At first i found using photoshop complicated because i have never used it before, but then i got the hang of it with a little help from my teacher. i really enjoyed re-creating this movie magazine i found it fun and quiet interesting. i have always wondered how they create magazine, how they change the words to glow or curve or even look like they were bouncing, i did not know how to put word behind an image but know i know. i used the inner shadow, drop shadow, inner glow, the a shape, i also used a colour picker, the type tool