Saturday 17 April 2010

Second textual analyses



Vibe is very succesful magazine launched by people inside the music industry, specifically the development side of things rather than the performance. Vibe is very rare because its launched by industry professionals rather than outsiders or hobbyist journalists. Vibe is launched by a accaliamed micheal jackson producer Quincy Jones who is very succesful critically commercially. Vibe circulation figures are approxiametely 800,00 almost 1 million. the reason why i presume vibe is very succesful is because of the backing of the legendary music producer and also the contact he knows, which he works withn the industry. Vibe is in partnership with Time inc, which is a very popular publisher. the magazine is targeted at young urban males, just like the music genre, Vibe ran a special on women in hip hop issue which is tergeting female audience. however the majority of covers target young males to adults. the age range would probably be around the ages of 18-30 years old.

Vibe realeses its magazine monthly, 12 times a year. The magazine above is a big rap special edition which was published in June 2009, it features Eminem who is a famous mainstream rapper.Eminem has won 170 awards, which includes 11 Grammys, 10 mtv awards and so on. Eminem has sold approxiametely 80 million records worldwide. The

The title Vibe is in capital letters, the word vibe is in bold which gives it an affect to the reader. the colour of the title is in red, which i suggest is a male colour and is used to make the magazine masculine. the colour of the artist on the left side is in the same colour as the title, it is printed in a large font, to attract the readers attention. underneath that header Eminem it says he comes clean, By this I assume the interview is related to his personal life, which means the readers get to know more about Eminem. I noticed just above the word Eminem, it quotes i almost died, this will make the issue more exciting Eminem fans to buy, the magazine above. The way Eminem stands in the

1 comment:

  1. Why have you got two pictures of the front cover?

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