Denotation: This double page spread consists of a colour photograph of three males behind bars. These males all share a cell in the prison. It is a medium long shot of the men and I know this because you can see each person from their heads to their knee/shin and hide’s their feet so the audience do not know what they are wearing on their feet. The men are all wearing the same thing and look very depressed, this has obviously been done purposely to show how it feels to be in prison. Their face expressions are all different but they all in different ways connote boredom, stress and also show that they are powerless, the way the two on the right are holding the bars shows this, and makes them look weak and show that they can’t do anything about being in there.
The background of the picture is the wall of the cell and it is a green and I think this is important because green is a very peaceful colour and it is also found on the walls in a hospitals to keep patients calm. So the fact that the walls are green could connote that the prison is trying to keep the criminals calm for as if the walls were red this would connote anger and stress and it would be very disturbing for them. I have also noticed that their facial expressions seem to reflect on the colour of the walls because they look reasonably calm and not disturbed or angry. The wall has different shades of green and this looks like the dirt that has been gathered up over the past years and this could mean that the prison is an old one.
‘Straight path’ this is on the first page of this double page spread and its in serif writing it is big and bold and is also green but very pale. This connotes, the people in the cell moving forward in life after they get out but it also connotes masculinity and that men are natually strong. The masthead is the most noticeable aspect on the double page spread. Above this there is some text which explains that there are a lot of ‘mc’s’ and more and more of them seem to get into prison and this magazine ‘XXL’ go to the prisons to interview them. On the right, the second page of the spread is a list of some other artists I think, that also ‘mc’. On the far right on the same page is the interview that ‘XXL’ took of them.
The background of the picture is the wall of the cell and it is a green and I think this is important because green is a very peaceful colour and it is also found on the walls in a hospitals to keep patients calm. So the fact that the walls are green could connote that the prison is trying to keep the criminals calm for as if the walls were red this would connote anger and stress and it would be very disturbing for them. I have also noticed that their facial expressions seem to reflect on the colour of the walls because they look reasonably calm and not disturbed or angry. The wall has different shades of green and this looks like the dirt that has been gathered up over the past years and this could mean that the prison is an old one.
‘Straight path’ this is on the first page of this double page spread and its in serif writing it is big and bold and is also green but very pale. This connotes, the people in the cell moving forward in life after they get out but it also connotes masculinity and that men are natually strong. The masthead is the most noticeable aspect on the double page spread. Above this there is some text which explains that there are a lot of ‘mc’s’ and more and more of them seem to get into prison and this magazine ‘XXL’ go to the prisons to interview them. On the right, the second page of the spread is a list of some other artists I think, that also ‘mc’. On the far right on the same page is the interview that ‘XXL’ took of them.
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