The image takes up half of the page, I like the way they have chosen to do this it attracts the audience attention straight away being the first feature they look at. This image is a polysemic image because it gives off two different emotions. The image draws the audience in because of her facial expressions, her expression shown looking very innocent and unsure. Also the pose she is showing can be represented in a sexual manor, the way her mouth is slightly open.

For my magazines I will use this method to draw in the audience, a large image and an attractive person showing an appropriate facial expression to represent my genre.

This masthead I think is the most disappointing feature on the double pay spread. The masthead stands out in comparison to the text because there is a big size difference. The font is rather basic and boring for this magazine, the font does not relate at all to the genre of the magazine. The masthead being ‘press play’ shows it has a large variety of difference genres, this title does not match specifically to one genre in particular. The word exclusive in red stands out from all the other text, the word ‘exclusive’ shows there is something extra to the magazine than there is to others. This is something which draws the audience in to reading there magazine spread. This magazine masthead does not influence me into making one similar. I believe this look unprofessional and does not appeal to the audiences taste. I will try make my title appeal to the genre I am focusing on.

The text has been layed out in a way which is basic and easy to read, I like how they have also enlarged quotes to help them stand out and be read. This double page spread has been layed out just like an interview on paper, they have asked questions and received answers. Making the questions bold to help them stand out, helps make the page easy to understand and interpret. Having the interview written in this layout makes not very detailed, in this situation I think they should have used it more as a friendly conversation other than a formal interview.

For my double page spread I will use more of a conversation to keep it interesting and make the audience feel as if they are there.

Mise-en-scene: The image shows the girl is interested in music, she is listening to her IPod, the headphone show she enjoys listening to music and like a specific genre. Her costume shows she has a mainstream fashion, the clothes represent the genre dance and pop music. Her make up is rather natural and does not show any drastic parts, this keeps her genre being mainstream and popular. The make up does not tell us much about her genre, where as if she had dark eyes it could give the impression she likes the punky/rock genre of music. The background of the double page spread fades nicely with the colour of her top but not blending in together. The top just being white with red lets the audience look directly at her facial expression other than features she is wearing.

With my double page Spread I will focus on making a certain feature in the picture the important part so the audiences attention is directly towards that specific feature. For example, use dull clothes to make her facialexpression to stand out.