Susan Alnajafi

Unsigned, new artist called “Little Boots”.

Target audience: Girls aged 16-25, judging by image of the artist, a

young woman in early 20s.

The section of the magazine is called “New Noise 2009”.

Colloquial and conversational language. Formal language is present, some complicated and elongated

words used.

Vast knowledge of complex vocabulary.

Uses friendly language.

Buzz words included such as “cool” and “hot”.

BUZZ

WORDS

A monochrome effect is used.

Smudge effect has been used on Little Boot’s face on Photoshop, a slight colour filter has been used, making sure she has bright pink lips, with blue eyes and obvious eye makeup.

Bright colours; purple and pink are used in the actual article to make it look more attractive for the younger readers.

The music logos are a range of blue, purple and pink, relating to the favourite colours of young people.

The title is in black and white, being quite different.

The “pull quote” is amusing and random, which is what most young girls want to read.

Drop cap at the beginning of the article, giving it a kick-start feel.

There is a use of sans serif and serif font in one page

Image:Quite big

Takes up one whole pageArticle only being one page, being very short and simple compared

to others.

Layout:Very orderlyImage and slug on the left hand side pageArticle on the right hand side page

Tone

The tone of the magazine is quite

conversational and talking as if we

are close friends.

Formal

The article can be read in a formal

way too, which can confuse the

reader but also seem more

interesting to actually read.

Examples

An example of conversational

language is, “She was at a

fashionable east London fashion

hangout”.

Examples

A formal part of the interview

would be Intuition is a key part of

Little Boot’s thing. She has a rare

ability to stay focused on her

own interests and beliefs,

unfettered by what’s happening

around her”.

The artist, “Little Boots”, is presented with an image of herself, wearing extravagantly strange eyelashes, with strange triangles at the tips, referring to her genre of music being unique and different to other genres of music. She is looking up, which has connotations of her having high hopes, dreams and ambitions in life and her music career.

The style of the article does not match the front cover at all, because the front cover has the colour red as the key theme, whilst in the article the key colours are black and white.

To understand a few of the programmes mentioned in the articles such as “The X Factor” or consoles such as Nintendo Wii, you would have to be familiar with the popular culture and youth values, because music magazines are for entertainment purposes and they include popular content for their target audience.