Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Band Images (posters, CD Covers etc)

Westlife

I find that Westlife show how many typical boybands look.
They all dress similar to show they are all part of the same band.
I would like the audience to be a large audience consisting of both male and female, mainly female because of the sex appeal for the older audience. But also the younger audience where they look up to the band members and want to look like them or meet them.
On my front cover I will have the boyband, all positioned in a certain way, wearing similar clothes. Around the artists I will have a headliner to attract the readers attention and want to buy the magazine to read the story about the boyband and then have other artists features on the front cover to how the magazine isn't just about the band. My contents page will consist of on the cover articles with pictures. My double page article will be an interview with the main band and consist of photos of them. All the font will be bold and attracting to the reader. I will use colours that don't apply to just one gender, this will show the magazine is for boy audiences.

This is another boyband and shows that they also dress very similar likewise to the other picture. In this photo they are all portraying direct mode of address, I will have two of my members posing indirect mode of address. The direct mode of address leers the audience in to want to read but the indirect mode of address also makes them want to read because they want to know what they're looking at. Most boybands don't have instruments so my boyband won't have any to fit the stereotypical fit. Most of the time the setting is a studio based setting with a plain backdrop. All members wear complimenting colours or contrasting to show the different personalities of each band member but they normally have something in common, eg the footwear

1 comment:

  1. Jess - this is muddled - you need to just analyse images of pop acts to identify the main conventions for such artists, not just boybands, although you could use one of these on the front cover. There is some of this here but you also repeat stuff on audiences but now seem to include boys.... Keep audience identification to one post. I think more girls than boys consume pop, so they are probably the best audience to target. see if you can detangle this post a little?

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