Research-Representation and Genre Front Cover

                                             
In this billboard magazine cover, Beyonce is represented as a inspiration, powerful and passionate icon. Beyonce is known to bring power into every song she has worked and viewed as a queen through her fans. She has a very unique way of expressing her thoughts through her music especially her most recent album "Lemonade" which was about her expressing her thoughts about police brutality and the campaign "Black Lives Matter". Her quote "I want to be an icon" suggests on how she wants to make a dramatic difference within her work and share it with the public. Beyonce is looking directly into the camera which creates a direct mode of address towards her fans. This makes her more respected and valued as an artist through this front cover because of how realistic her quote is it represents her as a normal person with big hopes, instead of a celebrity who just wants money and fame. The audience values Beyonce as an inspiration as she is known to bring powerful messages through each song. This makes the audience look up to her and follow her like she has a goddess figure as in the tagline it quotes her saying "I want be an icon" and by her successful career it makes the audience feel like she's very successful and already have become an icon and a role model to other people.

Genre

What is usually seen with pop magazines is that they have a big variety of colour and usually have typical bands. However, this billboard magazine does not promote any music. It has a down to earth interview with Beyonce over her music. They express her music differently to other pop music/artist even though it is from the same genre. This is expected due to Beyonce known to be very popular and very respected.

Planning 

The front cover of the Billboard magazine give me an insight on how a celebrity can be presented in a subtle way instead of using a huge variety of colour and using lots of taglines to present a celebrity. This has shown me that certain celebrities can be presented with dark colours can have the biggest meanings.