This is the final publication of a student. The main image uses mise-en-scene to appeal to its target audience. The main image is of a girl blowing bubble gum, with a direct mode of address, her costume is a blue denim jacket which is tied up to reveal her belly. The shot is a mid shot which only reveals her upper body. Her posture and costume connotes rebellion. Her posture and the way she blows the bubble gum is known to be a rebellious act mostly carried out by female gangsters. Feminists will argue that presenting a woman in such a rebellious way empowers them and her direct mode of address shows how courageous women are. The main image is placed against a plain cream background which makes the image stand out more. On her head she wears a red bandana, this is a code to recognise gangsters as most gangsters love wearing bandanas. However, hence most rappers are also gangsters, this also presents her as a fierce rapper. Her overall image and outfit suggests that this magazine mainly aims at the target demographic of rap music lovers or gangsters. Below the page there are three images with the cover line "All New Kleopatra Photos” beside them. However, the images do not fit with the Kleopatra theme as when people hear Kleopatra they expect to see an image with ancient beauty and characteristics, such as heavy gold jewelleries as Kleopatra was an Egyptian Goddess who wore such jewelleries. These three images that were aimed at connoting this ancient quality are modern. the girl sticks her tongue out in the second photo which isn’t something you see ancient Goddesses or even people do, it is more likely modern girls nowadays do. The girl in the image is wearing a modern style of make-up and puts the chain in her mouth, which again is a modern and not an ancient characteristics. These images do not convey the meaning of the cover line.

This is another front cover of a student’s music magazine final publication. Like most magazines do, it uses mise-en-scene to appeal to its target audience. The main image which is of a boy pointing at the reader with a direct mode of address connotes his boldness. His costume is black which stands for courage and hence here he represents a rapper, it connotes that rappers are courageous. The background is graffiti and the main image is of a black boy and the three images below are of a white boy, this suggests that this magazine aims promotes multiculturalism but hence there are only boys on the cover it shows that it is gender stereotypical and therefore appeal to boys only. It might also appeal to people who love rap music. The three images below which are of a white boy each have an image from a country as the background. The first image has a background which as the caption says, represents London. The boy’s pose in that image matches the pose London boys generally do. The same is connotation applies to the other photos as they also represent the pose most boys of that country do. This also connotes that Rappers adapt to different cultures.

I believe that the second magazine cover is most effective. Not only does it convey all its intended messages, but even with the busy graffiti background, the texts still stand out

and are readable.