In this article the language is formal but not too formal but basic this is because their target audience are males age 15-24, so that they can be able to understand the article clearly. Also, the layout of the article looks formal. This article uses words such as “immediately”, they used immediately instead of instantaneously because they want to use words that male age 15-24 would be able to understand. However quotes from the artist interviews were informal because they were talking in a conversation, such as “being dicks to each other”. This is used to show Green Day personal attitude.
The journalist uses a variety of formal and informal tone in which it address to the fan in a clear way so that they are able to understand the article. This contains words such as “masterpiece, suddenly, brilliant”. The font is formal and again the layout of this article is formal, this suggest that they would read an article that has a mixture of formal and informal words which is laid out in a formal way, rather then having a font is a funny style which makes it unclear for the reader to see. The font of the article is formal small and black which takes half of the page showing it's noticeable and readable. However the title font is very big and bold using black and red colours, it makes it eye catching and dominating.
The article includes four photography images of Green Day’s performance which takes up the whole page with information on the side of the images showing the reader the cast of the show. The captions surrounding the image are placed neatly on the picture. On the other page it is filled with writings half of the page is the full article and the other half is the title with information at the bottom of the title. The article text is laid out in neat columns similar to a newspaper article layout. There are two drop capitals used throughout the article , one of the letter “W” which is used to start up on how it started with “American Idiot” and the second letter is “A” which is for “American Idiot”. This is used because it’s a traditional way of starting a story, it’s dynamic and it makes the article appealing.
The article matches the front cover of the magazine as the colours black, white and red are included in the front cover and the article itself. The images in the article connect to the front cover because the front cover image is Billie Joe behind stage curtains, feeling confident and is ready to perform. The outfit he's wearing for the front cover looks like what he wears when it comes to singing but inside the article he is dressed up in the costume for the show. Showing that the images in the articles are going to be pictures of them performing which direct that not only they have the talent to sing but talent in acting.
In the continuing article, the language used here is informal because it's alphabetical definition of American idiot. The layout used in this looks very informal because it has cartoon pictures, this looks like it's layout for a children’s magazine. I think this is used because it's to make the reader laugh and find it entertaining because the show is called American idiot. On the left side where it say's “So. How's Billie Joe?” this is a small article on Mike Dirnt talking about Billie Joe in rehab. The language used in here is informal because it's mostly contains quotes from his friend Mike showing his personal attitude on the situation. On the right side there’s an interview box where the interviewer asks Mike questions and he replies on his own personal attitude again.
The tone used in this article is a friendly personal tone and a conversational because this journalist is telling the reader what it’s about. “Oh-so epic” showing the reader what they thought and saw of the musical play. The title of this is the same style and font of the first part of the article, it uses red and black colour. This is to show that this is a continuation of the first article.
In this article it contains seven images, two of them are images are of Billie and Mike. The other pictures are cartoon animated pictures this is because they’re character from the musical “American Idiots”. These pictures are located on both of the pages.
There are many different type of graphic used in this article, there are star graphic on the edges of the article to use as a layout, it apply to both pages. The cartoon graphic are caricature from the play, these are to show how they look like. The colour and the structure of the graphic represent the rock genre this is because the colour they used which is purple, purple somehow represent rock. The star patterns having so parts off showing an explosion connect to rock because it shows how powerful rock is The journalist assume that the reader would know who Billie Joe Armstrong and that this musical is based on Green Day’s latest album which is called American idiots.
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