Rocksound Double Page Spread
Analysis
The pages are from a live performance by Andy Biersack; the
interviewee and his band the Black Veiled Brides. The picture takes the whole
page and the colour behind Andy makes him stand out really well because of the
deep contrast of his black attire against what I can assume is a mixture of
pyro and smoke. The image of Andy is a mid-shot of him performing. The pages
are littered with logos which promote the show that Andy was playing at and
some of its main sponsors like ‘Monster’ and ‘Vans’. The header itself
certainly draws attention due to it’s over the top varying sizes and colour choice. The cracks inside the font are
like literal examples of the edginess and over the top action that is
apparently happening thanks to Black veiled Brides finally arriving at warped
tour UK. The headline may have also been influenced by the intro text which talked
about Black Veiled Brides bringing out the big guns for their headline set.
This sort of intro straight into the page would really excite any Black Veiled
Bride fan; speaking from experience and other readers who are going to Warped
tour UK who may have had no prior knowledge of Black Veiled Brides.
The interview only has Andy’s answers to the questions he
was asked beforehand, the interview starts with a large red drop capital and
this happens again in the second paragraph with the same letter but in black.
Both the first two paragraphs with the drop capitals start off with the
technique atmosphere and then proceed with Andy’s comments. The interview is
split into two even columns which are inside a white box to make them stand out.
There is one pull quote from Andy and the amount of writing is an average
amount so it implies that the focus is roughly 16+. There is also a second
intro under the header which has a mixture of a rhetorical question and a
statement which is left open by an ellipses. The genres discussed are rock and the typical
stereotype of rock and roll attitude can be implied from the way Andy talks
about how things get ‘wild’ when he meets up with fellow rock bands ‘Asking
Alexandria’ and ‘Attila’.

Good detail to case study 2 as well, especially DPS again and contents style and layout. More on the cover and images used - always remember what you see and why (connotations). Linking close to genre and target audience as you did with DPS would help with this.
ReplyDeleteGood work overall, blog is up to date, keep posting as regularly as you can.
Amy