Textual Analysis of the Music Front Cover

This is a front cover of a music magazine; the setting for the magazine is based on a white mysterious place, to connote with the theme of cloudy rocking roll place.
There are some props used in the magazine, such as a small image of a rock star carrying a guitar to connote with the theme of music rock.

There are some lighting used in the magazine, such as there is a very high key tune lighting surroundings of the large three figures , because it is to connote as the main subject for the front cover about the rock stars, even other few images where involved as real to represent in the magazine.

The whole magazine contains non-verbal communication because they have nearly the same facial expressions to each other. This connotes with the theme of showing these people, they really want to rock, as they shown from the magazine.

Technical Codes

1. Shot size = Medium long shot for the background, close up for the four mini images in one, mid shot for the two images, such as person standing, and another person with a guitar.

2. Camera angle = Mostly low angle shot

3. Lens type = Only Standard angle

4. Composition = using only symmetrical

5. Colour = Using different range of colours, while changing some of the colour effects, this is to connotes with theme of natural colours for any type of music.

Anchorage of the magazine contains the text, graphics, and image, to get attracted with audience or the readers to show the design about the information of rocking roll because the colouring is great, with the support of the graphics. While the image is more attracted to get people, of what are people doing in the magazine.

Finally there some different font types being formatted in the magazine, such as the mini format text been used in the bottom left with two different colours to represent separate information. However the rest of the text is different, and also the heading ROCK SOUND is connote to represent as the main subject of the music rock magazine to bring good headlines for the audience.