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Colour – Due to what Taylor Swift is wearing, the pages are full of colour and life. Her jacket is almost a tribute to Japanese culture and living, filled with neon colours and letters. Even the title of the piece, “Queen of everything”, is using zoomed in images of her jacket. The font is the same black serif, and they’ve used a light grey background. Design – The design is very image focused, using two images, and only the equivalent of one column of text. The text is slanted slightly to fit in with the images, and to add a new twist to what has so far been quite a plain layout. The title, even thought it is using a different style, is still the same font as before, showing the magazine’s limitation in experimenting with other fonts. Both pages are full page images of Swift; the first page focusing purely on her, and the second page making her body slightly smaller so they can fit a two small pieces of text around it. Images – The images used are from a planned photo shoot, using just her and no props at all. This is subjectifying how she has managed to take over the pop music world all on her own. This relates directly to the article on how many people in the music world are trying to bring her down because of her overtaking popularity. But her images don’t show Swift backed into a corner. Instead, they give off a sense of power and contradiction, and maybe even a little bit of fun. She is portrayed looking like she is completely unaware of the disapproval others are showing her. The images express enjoyment, and shows us a down-to-earth sense to Swift. Pose, style, hair, make-up – The whole shoot has been set up to express Swift’s power in the pop world. She is stood in dominant poses, almost like she is commanding how the photos should be taken. But she is shown to actually be enjoying it, representing back to how she is enjoying her career at the moment. The style is modern and simplistic, using a plain, monotone background to make to colour that Swift is expressing stand out more. Institution/distribution - Published by Time Inc.; also publishes Time, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, InStyle and Marie Claire UK. It is distributed as a free magazine in stores that relate to their values, (e.g. music and film stores, music venues etc.). Words - Nothing special is used with the words. The font being modern and sans serif doesn't necessarily stand out from the ordinary, as it is the ordinary. They have purposely kept the text plain so that your attention isn't drawn away from the photos. Language - The whole piece is used to promote Swift’s image. Even from the first sentence, they have used a rhetorical question, but they have expanded on it to make her look amazing and all-powerful. Everything is positive, trying to avoid any and all the negativity around her. They're making you connect with the artist through admiration of what she has done in her career, and what she is going to do. Although the language can sometimes become personal, it is kept to a formal manner.

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Colour – Due to what Taylor Swift is wearing, the pages are full of colour and life. Her jacket is almost a tribute to Japanese culture and living, filled with neon colours and letters. Even the title of the piece, “Queen of everything”, is using zoomed in images of her jacket. The font is the same black serif, and they’ve used a light grey background.

Design – The design is very image focused, using two images, and only the equivalent of one column of text. The text is slanted slightly to fit in with the images, and to add a new twist to what has so far been quite a plain layout. The title, even thought it is using a different style, is still the same font as before, showing the magazine’s limitation in experimenting with other fonts. Both pages are full page images of Swift; the first page focusing purely on her, and the second page making her body slightly smaller so they can fit a two small pieces of text around it.

Images – The images used are from a planned photo shoot, using just her and no props at all. This is subjectifying how she has managed to take over the pop music world all on her own. This relates directly to the article on how many people in the music world are trying to bring her down because of her overtaking popularity. But her images don’t show Swift backed into a corner. Instead, they give off a sense of power and contradiction, and maybe even a little bit of fun. She is portrayed looking like she is completely unaware of the disapproval others are showing her. The images express enjoyment, and shows us a down-to-earth sense to Swift.

Pose, style, hair, make-up – The whole shoot has been set up to express Swift’s power in the pop world. She is stood in dominant poses, almost like she is commanding how the photos should be taken. But she is shown to actually be enjoying it, representing back to how she is enjoying her career at the moment. The style is modern and simplistic, using a plain, monotone background to make to colour that Swift is expressing stand out more.

Institution/distribution - Published by Time Inc.; also publishes Time, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, InStyle and Marie Claire UK. It is distributed as a free magazine in stores that relate to their values, (e.g. music and film stores, music venues etc.).

Words - Nothing special is used with the words. The font being modern and sans serif doesn't necessarily stand o u t f r o m t h e ordinary, as it is the ordinary. They have purposely kept the text plain so that your attention isn't drawn away from the photos.

Language - The whole piece is used to promote Swift’s image. Even from the first sentence, they have used a rhetorical question, but they have expanded on it to make her look amazing and all-powerful. Everything is positive, trying to avoid any and all the negativity around her. They're making you connect with the artist through admiration of what she has done in her career, and what she is going to do. Although the language can sometimes become personal, it is kept to a formal manner.