Double Page Spread Analysis'

This is a 'My Chemical Romance' double page spread analysis.

This is a 'NME' double page spread analysis.

Magazine contents page analysis'

This is a 'NME' contents page analysis.

This is a 'Kerrang' contents page analysis.

Front Cover Analysis'

Pete Doherty on the front cover of 'NME'



Biffy Clyro on the front cover of 'KERRANG'

Music Magazine front cover terminolgy.

Newsletter Analysis

This Deyes High School newsletter is plain and and bland, it has no colour on it just black and white writing and a black and white image, although 'deyes' is in big bold letters so you know exactly what it is before you even read it. The image is a shaded pencil drawing of the building, it is out dated so therefore makes the school looks old and not modern. They should make the newsletter more colourful and take a picture of inside the school grounds so you get a feel of what the school is actually like. The newsletter cover is very basic as it only says the name of the school in bold and in the font 'serif' and then specifies that it is a 'Specialist Science College'; the image of the school reflects the value and the discipline of the school. For example the charter of values. The news letter is quite messy and as it has three differnt fonts on the front cover, this shows that it hasnt been created by someone who knows what they are doing. Underneath the 'Deyes High School', they use a puff saying 'specialist' this draws the audiences attention to that sentence. You can tell that not a lot of thought has been put into this newletter as it is sloppy and tacky and looks very rushed. There is no enough text on the front page to even put 3 texts so i dont understand why they have. The logo for the 'specialist science college' doesnt look professional either, it looks like it has been taken from clipart and stook on the front of the news letter. I think that the school newsletter should been more of a magazine format with puffs, motos, a lot more pictures of the school, maybe an updated version of the pencil drawing of the school. It would also look good with pictures of some of the students and if they had used the school colour scheme of black, white, red and blue.

This newsletter is of St Ambrose Barlow high school, this is another newsletter that we analysed in class. The first feature that you notice about this news letter compared to the other one is that it uses a lot of colour to make the newletter more appealing and very easy on the eye. The newsletter uses both a professional font and a funny, curly font. I think they used a 'fun' font for the title of the newsletter which is also the name of the high school to try and interpret that the school is a fun school which the students enjoy going to. I think that they have used a professional font for all the other text because as well as being fun, the school wants to convey that they also have a professional side and are a good school and will give their students the best education that they can give. They have used picture from around the school to show how much of a good school that they have and that the school is very well presented, to make sure that people want to go there and want their children to go to that school also. The badge on the right hand side of the title of the nesletter is in full colour which represents a level of formality within the newsletter.
The Amborse Barlow newsletter would look much btter if it was set out more professionaly than it is set out currently, which is very chaotic.

Cohen's Moral Panic

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Acording to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panic and credited with coining the term, a moral panic occurs when a person of group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers as "moral entrepreneurs", while people who supposedly threaten the social order have been described as "folk devils."
Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo.The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not self-consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic.

Moral panics have several distinct features. According to Goode and Ben-Yehuda, moral panic consists of the following characteristics:

• Concern - There must be awareness that the behaviour of the group or category in question is likely to have a negative impact on society.
• Hostility - Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become "folk devils". A clear division forms between "them" and "us".
• Consensus - Though concern does not have to be nationwide, there must be widespread acceptance that the group in question poses a very real threat to society. It is important at this stage that the "moral entrepreneurs" are vocal and the "folk devils" appear weak and disorganised.
• Disproportionality - The action taken is disproportionate to the actual threat posed by the accused group.
• Volatility - Moral panics are highly volatile and tend to disappear as quickly as they appeared due to a wane in public interest or news reports changing to another topic.