Ortega Dps page 1 country

This is a double page spread from the 'Country' magazine. 1 half of it is covered by text and the other half is completely covered by a picture. This DPS is completely about 1 artist, it uses her proper name and does not give her a nick name. It uses a dropped capital at the beginning of the first paragraph. It uses a puff to advertise something inside the magazine, and the puff is in a different colour to stand out from the rest of the text. The image expresses nature a lot and uses a mixture of light and dark colours. It has only 1 red item in the image which are the roses and they stand out a lot and red represents power, which shows the artist is powerful. I think that it uses the theory of Dyer "a star is an image" because this is a country magazine and the colour theme of the models clothes are more rock.

This magazine starts on page 26 and goes across to page 27. This tells us that the DPS is near the middle of the magazine and because it has a picture of a girl filling one page which suggests that she is a popular artist and she is one of the big headlines of the magazine.

The text is set out in 4 different columns. However the first paragraph spreads across two columns and has bigger text to suggest that the publisher wants this to stand out most to the reader. I like this idea of having the first paragraph bigger than the others so I will consider using this in my magazine. I have also noticed that after the dropped capital there is bold writing which suggests that each paragraph has its own sub-heading. As you can see there is quite a bit of white space between each column which makes it clear to the reader where one paragraph ends and the other starts.




The text is aligned left as it is on the left hand side of the page and not in the center. This could be because it makes easier to text wrap around the puff in the middle of the page. I like this idea of having a puff in the middle of the page and the text wrapped around the shape. The pull quote is placed in the middle of the page and in the middle of the text to stand out as an important feature of the magazine page.

The body of text is small compared to the headline of the page. I think this is done to let the heading, the sub-heading and text body stand out so the reader knows which is which.

The image is a medium long-shot of the girl. I think this is because the photographer wanted to only capture the clothing and the features of the models face. I think that the main feature of the image is the red roses on the models head because the rest of her outfit is black. However it creates synergy with her red lipstick that she has on which represents power. Also the roses work in cohesion with the background as there is a natural background with a bush which is where roses come from/are found by. The model has a happy but cheeky look and is in very short clothing suggesting that the model is trying to attract a male audience with her good/flirtatious looks.



How this has influenced my ideas

• I like the puff in the middle of the text
• I like how it is half text and half image
• I like the idea of dropped capitals