Music magazines: Gender/age representation

 Mojo cover Nick Cave

This magazine celebrates older musicians, EG the photo of Nick Cave and the reference to Elton John who was in the 1970. It goes against stereotypes of popular musicians being young.

Popular musicians tend to be depicted as younger so this cover is a complete contrast. 

Men tend to be linked with authority and seriousness and therefore this cover is a direct example of this. Monochrome desaturated colours portray him as authoritative and powerful, representing him  as the average stereotypical male figure depicted in medias.

Explain how music videos use media language to promote their artists. 

Mise en scene, editing, camera work and sound. 4 things to comment on

In wheatus the "teenage dirt bag" is presented as unpopular and weird, this is because of the use of Mise en scene in the video, in which he wears a strange striped jacket and rides his bike to school. Whereas the girl, Noel is present as a princess, a prize to be won, which is rather stereo typical in these American high schools. In Contrast Sk8er Boi where the boy who 

Music Magazines: Media Language.

 QUESTION: How far do MOJO and RNR use different media language to create different connotations? (CONNOTATION meaning: an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning.)

Answer on your blog. This is a high-value question and should take all lesson to answer. You can use the class blog search engine for more examples of how to analyse music magazines.

In your answer you should have 2 paragraphs:

• analyse the media language in MOJO and RNR magazine. 'Media language' includes the placement of the main image, the type of photography, lighting, colours, fonts, how busy or restrained the cover is, the layout (such as alignment to the margins), how serious or playful 
• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language is used differently in both extracts to create different connotations. Are there similarities in both covers? What sorts of audiences are they targeting? You could think about MOJO's rock aesthetic of living loud and dangerously compared to RNR's folk, rock, blues vibe. 
• Dominance and power takes up space making him the centre of the article
  Foo Fighters font is fun and leaning forward
  Red and white candy stripes looks like word art and has a drop shadow, appears almost tactile.
  Connotes to funkiness and energy.
  The media language here represents
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• Mojo's cover is cluttered and busy because of it's numerous cover lines, images, puffs as well as a very dynamic cover mount, neon with a vibrant cartoon image. RnR also have many cover lines but they are all more minimalistic. The right hand margin are all in white, creating a calm, organised and unclutered. Equally the cover mount with it's modest verbal play

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