Double Page Spread Analysis 3

The article presented, featuring a main piece revolving around the music artist Professor Green, utilises several different presentational devices as well as language features to further add to the overall composition and layout of the article, which in turn creates a better image for the artist and makes them seem more interesting and is likely to grab hold of the reader’s attention. The most striking aspect of the piece is the main image of the article, which displays Green rapping into a microphone, and the picture is taken while Green is in motion to create a blur effect behind him. This blur effect was not just captured deliberately but also used deliberately to create the image for the reader that Green is proactive and takes an active interest into creating his music, as supported by the caption below the picture which states that the picture of Green was taken at a music studio, which also suggests that Green takes any musical activity as a performance. The photo is not doctored in any way and this is deliberate, as an exposition piece on an up and coming artist would usually involve a professional photo shoot and what inevitably comes afterward with liberal use of photo shopping, but it is not used here to make Green seem more down to earth and focused on simply creating his music rather than having the perfect photo op and conforming to the standards expected by music magazines when an artist seeks exposition, as well as making Green seem more focused on pleasing his fans rather than making money unlike many other musical artists, so Green is taking a defiant stance against this convention and in a way staying true to his underground roots, and ensuring the reader that he is a normal, down to earth person.

After the main image, the heading of the piece is the second most striking aspect of this piece. The heading reads: “The Nutty Professor”, which is not only a pun on his stage name but is also an example of intertextuality, by referencing other pop culture, but the effect of this is to draw in the reader and make them interested in the piece as well as the artist by using the heading to connote that Green is in some way crazy, obviously this is not real but is more used for effect and to suggest that the following copy will have information on something surprising about to be undertaken by Green. In the additional text below the heading a rhetorical question is used to further this belief and to add to intrigue created by the heading and has the exact same function of the heading: to draw in the reader and to want to make them explore the article further, as well as creating the image that the artist is quite enigmatic.