Textual Analysis - UNCUT : DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

This is a double page spread featured in UNCUT music magazine. The wide angle shot of the band 'The Stone Roses', is the main feature of the spread, in particular bass player Alan 'Reni' Wrens, who is the sole member featured on the right hand side page. Alongside the photograph being of main interest, there is also a pullout quote scattered across the top of the spread, each line is angled differently to create sense of messy overlapping youths. This is also present in the front sizing and arrangement, each line different to the next, possibly connoting to the difference of each band member. The style compliments the photograph very nicely, as the band seem to be all over the place in comical fashion also. Consumers get the sense that the article is going to be from the point of view of Reni, and that it is his quote featured above, although he is not centered or in the highest frame position, he is in the foreground of the shot and the one most connecting with the audience, this is apparent through eye contact and hand gesture. The content of the image is supposed to correlate with the large pullout quote, this is particlarly evident in Reni's rather chimp-like pose, along with the general larking about of the other band members in the supposed serious climate of a photo shoot.

The fact that the photograph is in black and white, means that colour used by the magazine has a good chance of standing out, in terms of text colour, the only colour used is green, the word acid tends to be associated with the colour green, this choice could be to emphasise that. However it does also amplify the quote as a whole, and direct some of the readers attention towards it. There is also, hidden beneath strips of text, a Holland flag in paint format, strikingly similar to the one that appears on The Stone Roses debut album, the lemon in the top left hand side corner has also been created this way. The bridge that the band are on, looks amazingly alike to the iconic bridge that other Manchester band, 'Joy Division' were famously photographed on, the two bands obviously share similarities musically, perhaps this is suggesting that The Stone Roses merely began where Joy Division left off and possibly a near glimpse as to where the band would end up very soon.