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Magazines: Final index

 My final index ; Magazines 1) Magazines: Introduction and conventions 2) Magazines: Representation and social contexts 3) Magazines: Tatler CSP case study 4) Magazines: Reveal CSP case study 5) Magazines: Exam question blog assessment Rubana Tanta 

Magazines blog assessment

1) What is a convention of a magazine cover? Give an example from Tatler. [2 marks] there is a cover or sell line that is around the central image and one of the cover lines is 'James Corden's LA life ' also it has a main cover line which is ' the new posh' . 2) How does the front cover of Tatler use media language to appeal to its target audience? [6 marks] First , we denotate the big pink title 'Tatler' which is written in serif font .This emphasis that the magazine is  authorities ,traditional , modern and fancy and expensive or rich. This also connotes to us that it is for upper class people and for more educated and sophisticated people .We see cover lines around the magazine and also we see the women who is wearing fancy jewellery this also suggest rich and she is wearing traditional clothes .We see a quote big in sanserif in bold big writing in pink at the bottom , this connotes pink so more for women and girls and mostly for younger generation .The s

Reveal: case study

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  Media language 1) color scheme , there is a lot of colors which are mostly bright or neon .  there is also maybe language on how they speak and a bit  of slang maybe .  there is the barcode and price which is surprisingly the only thing that is serif .  2) it is all sanserif which shows its more modern and cooler than being traditional and  embrace simplicity and the feeling of being modern. also the producer is trying to show that the magazine is friendly and nice .  3) it tells the audience about women and their representation for example with men and media and their own representation as there are saying women has to keep their looks the best and have a perfect body . 4) its all bright and light colors and a lot of different colors . I do think the colors made the magazine crowded but at least the 2 main colors match a bit .I also think they are trying to show that it is fun and exciting magazine from the colors .  5) its saying and trying to show us that these are unseen things o