The colour scheme on this DPS relates to both the front cover and the contents page. The only difference is the non use of yellow. We can see that the colours black, white and red have been used. There is a diamond shaped box which is white with black writing inside with a hint of red which makes the word 'Confessions' stand out. Also, the word 'Clean' stands out a lot as it is bold and it almost looks like it in underwater because of the added silver shades.
One side of the DPS is a close up of Mikey Chapman who is under water and he looks like he is screaming and almost as if he is trying to hold his head. He looks depressed and looks like he is going through anxiety. The fact that he is under water might represent how depressed people might feel like. The fact that he is under water relates to the main cover line on the DPS as he is trying to become clean of his sins. The close-up shot allows the audience to see his tattoos and allows us to see his facial expressions clearly. He seems like he is screaming because we can see bubbles on the surface on the water and also waves.
The second page of the DPS is where the actual writing begins. There are 3 columns on this page and there are many references to traditional magazine elements. For example, the use of drop cap brings attention to the beginning of the article. In addition, as this page is in a Q&A form, the questions are in bold and the answers are normal which means the audience can pick out the questions and the answers, it also allows the audience to skip a question if they are not interested in the answer.
In the middle of the page there is a short insight note about what other articles might be about in the magazine and what other artists you are able to read about in the issue. The names of artists are in bold which allows the audience to easy read it and it also catches attention as other writings are not in bold. This makes it clear that they want the audiences attention to be on the parts where bold writing is used because the bold parts are most likely to be a lot more interesting than all the other parts.
some good analysis of image and page layout. You could be more specific on genre clues, and could have done a closer reading of the journalistic language and style used. Vanessa
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