The Evolution Of Britney Spears Analysis

The image of Britney Spears has been framed in the centre filling up the whole front cover vertically and the image is cropped filling the front cover of the magazine. The image doesn’t fit all of the front cover so the text can be seen and is not messy. Also so that the text doesn’t cover the image and doesn’t take up most of the space so the reader can focus properly on the image. The type of magazine that this is typical of is a male magazine as the shot is taken from a high camera shot so you can so her body features clearly. She also looks vulnerable to appeal to the male audience.
Britney’s costume is lingerie which includes a black push-up bra, pink with black poker dots silk girl boxers and an open short sleeve pink jacket. This suggests that her image is sexy and is shows this seductively. This is obviously appealing to a male audience as she wants to have a personal and intimate relationship with the reader. In that costume she wants to show that she is young, only 17 and classy.
Props has been used, a purple teletubby teddy bear, the messages that they are conveying to the audience is that the telephone is tying to reveal that she is a typical teenager always on the phone talking, gossiping to her friends. The colour purple of the teddy bear conveys a sweet and innocent massage about Britney. These props also make her look sexier alongside the costume. The message is conveyed full on to the audience.
The setting is a pink silk cover that Britney is laying on to make her look sexy and seductive. Also the pink makes her look pretty and young. The connotations of this are that she looks more attractive to the male audience as pink is a girly colour then she already is.
The intertexual references being made are, the teddy bear means that she is revealing her childhood as she wants to be young and the open shirt represents her uniform as a school student. The connotations of this are to present her childhood and youthfulness.
The colours that are used are pink, white purple and black as theses are colours that represent girls and show’s Britney’s girly side.


The image has been framed to fill the whole centre of the magazine. A medium shot has been used as it is a half naked shot from waist up used to reveal her private body parts to fully attract a male audience.
All that Britney is wearing is knickers in her costume, her pose is very sexy and seductive which is used pull in her attracters which of course are male. She wants to have a personal and intimate relationship with the reader.
The setting that is used is jest a plain whit background. The connotations of this is so that the reader focuses only on the image in front which off course sells as Britney’s pose is doing a lot of the magazine.
The lighting is use to reveal Britney’s curves as it is high key. Also it is plain white used to make the reader focus on the image.
The colours that are used are white, blue, black and red. These are mostly all dull colours to make the effect of the image bigger.

This image has been chosen to make her look sad and emotional as they are trying to make her tragedy more effective to the reader. Also the image is just of her face and she is pulling a sad and unhappy face with dropped eyes which looks like she’s been crying. These are all things also significant to the use of why the image is in black and white. Black and white is the colours that represent sad emotion which reveals her tragedy.
The image has been cropped fitting the whole of the magazine front cover.
The type of relationship that Britney wants with the audience is personal and dear so that the reader understands her deep emotion reveal.