Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the way in which a text is shaped in order to portray the meaning that it has. There are many different intertextual figures, these figures include: 
Allusion// Quotation// Calque// Plagiarism// Pastiche and Parody. 

The era that we are shown in today is the 'Post Modern Era' due to the fact that everything is starting to repeat itself. The things that are occurring now have already been done, or very similar things have been done. 

An example that was spoken about in one of my media lessons was Madonna and Lady GaGa. 

As you can see from the pictures above there has been two occasions where they have has similar outfits on. Showing that although we are getting new music, new artists and new fashion icons what has already been done will always be looked at. The new and upcoming artists will look back and what has already been done in order to get inspiration which is why the end up being so similar, they look back at what has been done due to the fact they can see what worked for the artist and why. Artists are also able to learn from the mistakes that occur in the past ensuring that they don't make the same mistakes themselves. 

Constructing an image: 

Before I take the pictures for my music magazine there are many different aspects of the image that need to be thought about. I will also have to think about how the image can be deconstructed and the different evaluative points that may be made about it. When images are created they will always have many different meanings behind them, there is more than what first meets the eye. This was shown by the cover the beetles did on a cover sleeve.

This image was very controversial and was actually stopped from being a cover sleeve and replaced with another image. Although this image was very controversial that was the main reason for the cover being created. Although this is controversial and would have drawn in a large audience sometimes things can be a bit too different, like we saw with David Carlson. He tried to do something that was so different however it didn't work as there was not many sales of the magazine. The covers are so different that they do not give any insight into what the topic of the magazine is about, which then starts to prevent people from purchasing it.