DJ Weekly D.P.S (Double Page Spread)

Photography: There are only two pictures used within this article with a video. The pictures show that of known people, most likely DJ’s whom the article is talking about. The 1^st picture has been done in a studio as the background is all white and the costumes used to express themselves and most likely are not intended to have any context to them. The second picture is that of a facial shot and this has been edited so it is in grey-scale. This makes the picture look older than it appears and grey-scaled pictures seem to be used a lot when it refers to either an old artist or it seems to refer to an interview with a solo artist.

Colours scheme: the colour scheme used are that mostly of light colours. Light green can be used to represent nature and the different coloured blues could represent the sky or ocean.  The writing is coloured in black, white and blue with different parts in different colours. What is interesting in this article is not the fonts used but

Writing Style:  The Fonts all seem to be the same apart from underneath the march chart which is just to represent the chart, music names/bands are in capitals and some of the Worlds such as ‘Coleco’ and ‘Download now’ are surrounded by a border to make them stand out. It is set out like any other article but what is interesting in this article is not the fonts used or their sizes but the title of the article underneath the picture on the left page. What is interesting about this is that unlike any other article that I have read, Instead of giving the title a fill, It overlaps the picture and used the colours from the picture to represent itself and in this case, being black at the beginning and the end but fading into yellow in the middle. The title is also attached to the bottom of the picture and this makes the title subtle like a cat stalking its prey.

Overall look:  Overall, the colours seem to give this article a ‘laid-back’ feel  to it as  it doesn’t seem to used too many words or use too many pictures or effects which in total, makes the magazine give of a calming sense of relaxation which is usually the juxtaposition to modern day magazine articles who plan too much and take everything and make them stand out too much.

Text/Picture ratio: The picture to text ratio in this article seems to be about 45:55 with the pictures making up 55%. What seems to be important is not the amount of pictures that take it up but the size of the pictures used as they seem to use  less pictures but increase the size which may relate as to why the article seems ‘relaxed’.

17/11/2011