Miley Cyrus - Billboard

This is a double page spread from Billboard magazine. Featured is Miley Cyrus. She is the main article in the magazine, as she is on the front cover too. This page focuses mainly on what the article is about – I would assume that there is another double page spread which gives more information.

Following the conventions of other music magazines, Miley Cyrus is the main person of this spread. The text is written in a basic font, similar to Arial and in capitals. The word ‘Girl’ is highlighted in pink. The colour pink could connote words such as girl and young. This is quite a ‘Hot’ shade of pink and could connote a more teenager style. Miley is wearing black clothing for the shoot and this makes the single pink colour stand out from the rest – however, when I asked my peer, they told me that they thought the solid black text stood out more. She said that the pink at the side wasn’t as noticeable and that she saw the black text first over everything else. This is to do with the text being in the centre of the double page. Also, the concrete walls for background could connote a cold room or quite a plain background.

The photo is a long shot of Miley Cyrus sat on the floor to the left. Referring to the ‘Rule of Thirds’, she is positioned more towards the left, and this is where the eye sees first – we read from left to right. They have put the main text on this page to the right, so it is the last thing you read. On the left page, Miley’s face is in the centre of the third with the word ‘GIRL’, where as on the right page, nothing is really in the centre of the page, but the first thing the eye notices is the follow-on to the word ‘GIRL’ with “..YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON”. This connotes that she has grown up.

For people that know who Miley Cyrus is, she has always been known as a young, naïve Disney star, but recently this year, she released her new album ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ which shows a more “sexy” side to her. Her outfit compliments this statement. The way she is positioned in the actual photo and the pose she is doing makes her come across as quite a ‘sex icon’ for the teenage world.