Research: Content pages acoustic 3

This is the contents page for the music magazine " acoustic" from the  winter issue 2013.

Puffs
The puffs in the magazine are located at the bottom of the photos, these are page numbers they follow the theory of Blumler and katz and support it as straight away if the image attracts a persons attention they can see where to turn.

Page numbers like this used to break convention as page numbers used to be at the side of the article's description in a column of text. However now having the page numbers blended into the photograph have become an accepted convention in magazine contents pages.


The photos of the magazine 
The photos in the contents page fit the genre  and follow convention. Most music magazine features photos of the artist posed in a a particular way to emphasise a certain point about the artist, for example having Lily Allen posed to show how she angry by having her smash something.
In a technical equipment however we are not drawing focus to the artist, instead we are drawing focus to the tools of the artist their instruments. We still do get articles written about the artist however.

In the photos for the contents page, the instrument has the main focus for the contents page. This is  done by having the instrument in the foreground of the photo and taking up the majority of the space.One way to create a interesting shot here would be to have the camera focus on the instrument and blur the background.The instruments  also are posed  in a dynamic fashion with an interesting background to draw attention to the guitar.


Theory
Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze may also be applied to  the cover. One way it can be applied to the cover is through the male models on the cover and the front cover model Gabrielle Aplin, they are both  placed in a certain way to show off their talent and how soul full they are to at the end attract female & male attention as people are attracted to that kind of thing in people.

The other way that Mulvey can be applied is to attract musician's to the guitars, in what i call the " Musician's gaze" as to put it simply Mulvey is all about attraction and enticing people to buy something such as a magazine for example. The guitars are posed to attract people with an interest, thus Mulvey is applied.






How this has affected my creativity & idea's
This has affected my creativity and idea's as this has given me an idea on what I need to look at when producing my contents page for my magazine, it has also given me ideas for possible shots i can take when it comes to photography as well as the poses I could try.