Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Genre DPS analysis

1) The main feature on the double page spread is the artist on the left, Wiz Khalifa. We know this it has his initials on the right hand side of the page and the face of the artist himself.

2) The image of Wiz khalifa dominates the left hand side of the page, covering the whole of that page with no text.

3) As it is a close up shot of the artist, he is wearing a hat which is specifically a snapback. In the hip-hop genre this is the hat that artists will wear, bring back the old style hats in the 90's and is now a trend again. He also seems to be wearing a grey top, whether a sweater or t-shirt.

4) The size of the image is very ale, covering the whole page of the left side and not the right hand side of the page. It has no text on it.

5) It is a close up shot of the artists face, showing what he is doing and he facial expression he is giving. This creates enigma to the reader as his expression is serious.

6) The headline uses a pun, the word high can suggest two things. First it could be that it can relate to the artist lifestyle of the artists success or secondly how high the artist is. Smoking marijuana makes the person high and it is intended that Wiz Khalifa is high because he is seen smoking and represented in the media to smoking this drug. The reader will be interested on the content because it can relate to both the artists lifestyle or the drug he smokes.

7) The article does not use a pull quote although the artists initials is a bigger text than the other texts on the page, in the colours of black and yellow as recently Wiz Khalifa had released the song 'black and yellow'. This advertises the song and makes it stand out on the white page.

8) The writing seems to be separated into two sections, neatly. The colour of the font is black which helps the writing to be readable and standout on the white page. The information is not separated as it is put is less paragraphs and more of just chunks of writing. The writing is all stuck together and do not separate each in lines. A few of the writing is in another colour to represent that information is important

9) The by line is located at the bottom of the image, showing the stylist and photographer of the main image of Wiz Khalifa.

10) The baselines for the body text is equal.

11) No it does not as bot pages are separated to show the main image and text.

12) The width of the body text is equal, the body text is kept on just one page at the bottom on the right side of the page.

13) It rhetorically asks' the reader "How High?" but leads to more of a story that happened to the artist, it is typed in the writes informal language and colloquial. The text tries to describe the artist in a way the reader can imagine it themselves.