Saturday 6 December 2008

Textual analysis of contents pages

I looked at the similarities and difficulties of the contents pages of ‘word’ and ‘NME’ and this is what I came up with:

1. Mise-en-scene

The people on the contents page of Word are dressed much more smartly than those in NME. Those in NME are more casually dressed. The lighting in Word is higher key than NME. There are a range of different facial expressions in Word then in NME there facial expressions look as if they are concentrating on their performance. The body language in NME is natural as they are singing whereas the body language of the actors in Word are more posed. In both magazines the prop that is used is a guitar. Lastly, the background is not clear in the contents page of word whereas in NME you can clearly tell they are in a concert.

2. Music artist profiles

There are six different music profiles in the contents page of Word and just one min one in NME.

3. Layout and style of language

The layout of the contents page of Word is very boring and plain where NME looks better laid out with more information and more things to look at. The language of Word uses quotes from interviews of stars only. The language of NME is informal because it uses words such as “Oasis kicked off their world tour” it would be worded much differently if ti was formally written.

4. Any music genre conventions?

Word is fairly simple and has the standard way but NME is very cramped and looks more stuffy and a bit indie whereas Word is more than one type of genre.

5. Regular sections of the magazine

It isn’t clear what the regular sections of the magazine are as the contents page of Word is very limited in its description. However in NME it is clear that it has all the typical album/single reviews and new bands etc.

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