Main Task: Front cover Textual Analysis

Denotation
This is a medium long shot of a young woman looking bright with colourful make up which links with the background colour used. Her purple dress is short and consists of flowers which are attached unto her. The masthead is in contrast with the background colour but matches her ‘Jet black’ hair. Her skin has a bright complexion which also matches the background colour (pink). The young woman is in front of the masthead. The coverlines are in a smaller font size than the name (in black).

Masthead
The Masthead is called ‘Billboard’ which was originally called ‘Billboard advertising’ it was a trade paper for the Bill posting industry. The Masthead three colours on it which is red, blue and yellow which are primary colours. Billboard mainly consists of pop, rock and R&B which could highlight the fact why there are three primary colours used.

Main Cover line
The font of the main coverline is in a larger font than the actual coverline. The word ’Katy Perry’ which is in a bold and dark colour links with the image because they are both the main attention people will first look at. The way the name ‘Katy Perry’ has been written is in a Fancy and feminine font which matches the way the young woman poses. (Anchorage). Then we have (under the name) the coverline which is in white and contrasts with the name because of the colour ‘The new queen of pop’ statement highlights the image and the name meaning that the name is important.

Character
The main image is Katy Perry the Californian pop singer

Composition
The singer is posed in a very feminine/girly way also in a flirtatious position; her clothing is ‘pretty like’ a bit ‘childish like’ mainly because of the patterned flowers on her clothing.

Cover line
The main cover line says ‘inside the court of the new queen of pop’ meaning Katy Perry is replacing the formal ‘ Queen of pop’ which was Female singer Madonna. Artists which are mentioned in the cover lines include: Mike Posner, Taylor Swift, Eminem, New boys and Jerrod Niemann. The colour of the headings of each cover line is yellow except from Singer Katy Perry (main cover line).

Target Audience
The main audience that this magazine would attract would be young girls/young women. Once they see this picture they would automatically want to be like her however, men also would be slightly attracted but would not be as much because she isn’t wearing provocative clothing although her clothing is short it would be seen as ‘cute’.

Props
In this case, Katy is holding flowers which relates to her clothing. The flowers seem like they are attracted to her which denotes that maybe people are attracted to her. (Mainly young girls).

Lighting
The lightings used is high key lighting to show brightness and happiness which relates to the props used as well as the clothing.

Costume
Her clothing is seen as ‘childlike’ and very ‘pretty’ which carefully appeals to the Target audience and the shape of the dress matches how the flowers look meaning she’s the ‘queen of flowers’ relating to the fact that she is the New Queen of Pop.