Magazine 1

In component 1 you will get unseen products, you will be asked to compare and contrast. 

Component one: either film industry, music videos, newspapers, advertisements . Unseen text will also come up

Component two: We know what will come up.

  In component 2:

• Media language
• Representation
• Media industries
• Audience

• Your point of view/opinion needs to come across when answering the questions. 
• There is a historical context to the magazine section which needs to be included.
• You need to interpret and make up the question your self. "In this essay I shall argue..."
• You need to set out how you will be going to answer the question.
• Balanced argument is not needed when answering this question. 
• 50 minutes per question 10 minutes of planning.
• NO SNACKS ALLOWED IN EXAM!!!

Magazines we are studying:

Woman magazine- August 23-29th 1964

• Cheap magazine 80p in todays money 
• The title is serif font and fancy, which could connotate how women are seen
• Has elements of romance and domestication with the handwritten style 
• Purple/pink stereotypically feminine colours 

Women's magazine became very popular in the post-war period and, in the 1960's, sales of women's magazine reached 12 million copies per year. Woman's sales alone were around 3 million copies per week in 1960.

•  Women were objectified during these times, that the women were the cooks.
•  The mens roles were to work and provide for the family. 
• Demeaning consenting representation if women. 
• The stereotypical views of women and what they could do was changing during this time
• Advertisement started including women in their ads suggesting women were gaining more power/ money
• Viewed women had desedable income

Roland Barthes- Semiotics:

• Hermeneutic
• Proairetic 
• Symbolic 

Claude Levi Straus- Structuralism:

Binary oppositions. We see the world through what it isn't instead of what it is.

Codes and conventions of a magazine: 

• Glossy front covers/pages- connotations of quality 
• A lot of advertisements 
• Full page photographs 
• They are much more about the look and design unlike newspapers
• Often come with free gifts/samples 
• Has more of a gossipy mode of address  
• Can take an exclusionary mode of address

Magazines: 

Terrorizer:

Layout and design:
Red- dark
Font- like dripping blood
White- stands out 
Scary cover model- tattoos rings and heavy jewellery 
Gothic theme