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. 

The FOO Fighter is presented as a scary, angry person as he is reaching out grabbing the title with his fingers wrapped around it. He is also lit in a very complimentary way from above showing that he has no wrinkles or anything of the sort. The FOO FIGHTER is also shown as a bit crazy because of the font, this is a very out of the page font which almost leaps at you, it is also all in italics and capitals. His background is also more crazy than Christy Moore's, this is because his is showing him as the central point of focus and this is because of the explosion sort of thing behind him. On the other hand, Christy Moore is presented as a man who is calm and collected. He is also lit from the side which shows that he is embracing his old age and accepting the fact that he is getting older. Christy Moore's font is very calming and fits well with the rest of the calming, soothing background which is a nice whole colour. I believe that the red outline of the text shows that he is dangerous and crazy whereas the white of Christy Moore's shows that he is calm. For the covermount on Mojos magazine it is crazy and is a skeleton rocking out which shows how cool the magazine is and how crazy it is whereas on the other hand on the RnR magazine the covermount has a nice calm pun which will make the readers laugh when they buy the magazine. The pun is Un-Herd of which is a joke because there is a picture of a Zebra in the top right of the covermount which travel in herds. 

In conclusion, I believe that both extracts use a there space very similarly, this is shown by the fact that for both of them they have no space left on the covers and how they overlap everything with something more crammed into the cover. All of this but both also still have line which keeps it away from edge of the magazine. But on the other hand they I also conclude that they also do have a lot of opposites considering how one uses a colour scheme which is very dramatic and really screams "im dangerous" whereas on the other hand RnR uses a colour which is almost boring compared to MOJO. I conclude that in some aspects they use very similar techniques to captivate the reader most aspects of the magazines are very different and not at all similar.

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