Sunday, 9 October 2011

Black Swan - Magazine front cover analysis


Masthead: Central to the top quater of the page, not dominant at all. This shows that the issue is dominated by Black Swan, that Little White Lies are providing this, but that they want you to focus on Black Swan, not who published the magazine.

No pugs or puffs: This is to avoid distracting the readers focus from Black Swan, again emphasising the dominance of Black Swan in this issue

Image: The image is a sketched close-up of Natalie Portman with a lost expression on her face, hightlighting how her character loses the sense of who she is and her grip on reality within the film. The feathers look light and dynamic, as if they are falling gracefully, which further represents how reality is just falling away from the character of Nina

Main Coverline: This takes up the whole page, therefore emphasizing the fact that the whole issue is dedicated to Black Swan.

Colour Scheme: The colour scheme is monochrome, which puts emphasis on the theme of black and white which is very dominant in the plot of Black Swan, as Nina is the perfect white swan, but stuggles to become like Lily who is a very good portrayal of the black swan

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