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My Planning Mind Map

Analasis of Kerrang! Article

This is an article about Jared Leto, guitar and lead vocals for the band 30 Seconds To Mars , the article is about the songs that have inspired him in his life and hoe they inpired him into a music career. The image again is a close-up and is lookiing on a side towards the reader.

The heading "The songs that changed my life" could mean that these songs influenced him into taking a career in music, the article itself is different from most others as it takes about what made him the well known music icon he is today, whereas other music articles are all about the bands in the present time and what is expected in the futur. This is about his past and his secret love in music. This would help the audience to understand him more and what his childhood was like.

The article is set out in the same way as other articles apart from all the articles are all related to each other, for example all the songs he loved as a child.

Analasis of NME Article

This is an article from the magazine NME. The article is about Greenday who are a well known band throughout the world. There is only one image in this article and it is a close-up image of the band, the shoulders of the band members are cut of by the heading " Is this greenday's new album". This breaks the conventions of music magazine as if the image is a close-up you should be able to see both the head and the shoulders, however because this breaks conventions it means that the key points of the image is the heads of the band members.

The heading " Is this greenday's new album" could mean that it is asking the reader and then the reader has an opinion on whether they think it should or not. Again the article is split up into sections for the reader to read, these sections all tell different stories about the band, for example. Recent gigs, new albums/songs or band history.

There is also an advert in the article for foxbore hottubs, a band that has just brought out a new single, this is advertised so the reader will become interested and buy the single by the other band.

Analasis of Vibe Article

This is an article from the magzaine Vibe. The articles only has one image which is a medium close-up. The image looks to be pointing at the reader and could send the message that the article is only for the reader. The text looks to be in front of one of the the person wearing the hat and works its way around the person pointing, this could mean that he is the key point of the article and he is the most important thing.

The article set out into sections with each section telling a different story related to the topic. At the bottom right of the picture it says "What you lookin' at?" as if it asking the reader and the action of the pointing goes with this. It gives the impression that the emotions and feelings he has are being aimed at the reader. This could give a number of impressions to the reader.

The heading of this article is " BOBBITO plays the tracks, BLACK ROB states the facts" is what the articles about, two people talking about there past and explaining what happened and why. This would help the reader to understand why things happened if they where unclear to them before.

Analasis of Q Contents Page

This is the contents page for Q magazine, unlike Kerrang! and NME magazines this contents page only has one image. This image is what the main story of the magazine is about. Also in stead of having all the features and cover stories under different sub-headings, in Q magazine they are under the same one. This makes it easier for the reader to see the articles and chose one to read.

The main image on the contents page is a close-up (head and shoulder shot) of James Blunt a solo artist singer. The main story is based on an article about him, a recent gig or life story for example.

The other articles in the magazine are mainly stories about bands and artists instead of information about them, this makes the magazine more like a book of each artist rather then short pieces of information. these stories are usually about the past or how bands and artists started off there careers in music.

Analasis of Kerrang! Contents Page

This is the contents page for an issue of Kerrang! magazine. This contents page has more images of the bands featured rather then just the names, although it features less bands then NME magazine, it will give more information about the bands because it features less. The magazine contents page is set out in a different way as the articles are not just written they have images with them, so if a reader does not know the name of the band that is featured he/she Can look at the picture and judge whether or not they will be interested in them.

Again in this magazine there are cover stories located on the right hand side of the contents page. There are more features in this magazine then in NME. The features are; Feedback, News, Live Reviews, Features, K! Icons (Kerrang! Icons), Album Reviews, Gigs, Swag and Famous Last Words. All of these cover stories/articles have stories within that specific topic and it gives a brief description as to what is in that topic.

It is likely that when a make my contents page i will set it out in a similar way to this.