Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Little White Lies magazine cover analysis 2

  • The central image shows the main character from the film, This Is England by Shane Meadows which uses a punk artistic style with graffiti in the background to suggest the social realistic genre. The character, Shaun is making eye contact with the viewer yet with a angry expression. However the pose and provocative swearing draws in niche audiences since this isn't usually seen on the front cover of a magazine. The graffiti reading Lol  which attracts teenage audiences since the director wanted the film to be viewed by 15 year olds yet it is also a reference to one of the character's named Lol
  • The issue name is loosely centred at the bottom of the cover which also breaks conventions of a magazine yet also suggests the angst nature of the film and that it's about thugs and punks. The font is graffiti and in the style of the Sex Pistols which implies that the film is set in the 70s or 80s 
  • His costume further suggests the idea of punks and combined with the colours, further suggesting  that the film is set in the 80s
  • This issue is shown to focus on This Is England as well as UK films and talents  which will target UK audiences the most as well as acknowledge them.
There isn't much difference in this magazine cover to the first LWL that I analysed but I have learnt another way of advertising to niche audiences by being outgoing and solely basing the cover on one topic. 
I want to use LWL as my initial inspiration so I will use it's layout yet use my own image and writing. 

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