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Representation of women magazine

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the soap advert's women is aspiration, and she is considered as hot. Whilst the women on the front cover is pretty. To what extent is audience response to media representations, influenced by social, cultural, historical circumstance? Make reference to women magazine and adbusters. the producer positioned the audience in front of the women, so we're looking at women applying her makeup  there's an element of voyeurism of the men watching the women applying her makeup, without her knowing the women is positioned in the centre of the page so everyone is looking at her, and that's the lifestyle of the product  this relates to the male gaze because the man is getting pleasure from looking at her without her knowing  Dominant ideology in this that women meed to look pretty for men to look at them. The man is voyeuristically creating a spectacle the intradiegetic gaze is one character looks another The comic book like style make the magazine easily to read, wh...

Women magazine

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On page 3 of women's magazine, 'size up' this suggest that women should be a certain height/weight to be considered as beautiful Extra special on Men, there's an article showing how to get a men. The Mise en Scene of her foot over his head shows she has power over him. Women to look a certain way to look beautiful there's a page on how to apply their makeup. Soap advert tells the women they need to be clean and fresh Everything done is to please men Broadly this magazine cultivates a dominant hegemonic ideology One of the reason women's magazine is straight up and sexist is so it sells, thats why it is repeated By cultivating a dominant ideology it construct a hegemony Key Theory 9- Feminist theory- Belle Hooks Feminism is for everyone, Every women in women's magazine is white, it's extremely non-diverse George talks about ethnic minority, symbolic annihilation, having black women it wouldn't as successful. Advert contributes a 1/3 o...

Magazines

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Component one - lucky dip exam, six different industries may come up some might not advertising, film industry, radio.music , newspaper component a unseen items might come up component b is short answer question Component Two - easier paper, higher standard of writing. We know what will come up. Magazines, online media, television Media language, Representation, audience, media industries -One main subject focus, placed on the centre of        the place -Model is straight at the audience -Bright colour, is associated with happiness - Theres a repeated colour scheme of yellow and pink - the target audience is women age 20 to 40 Difference newspaper and magazines -less focus on certain news affair - more images than text -targeting a specific audience -comes out monthly or annually, infrequent -glossy texture

Key Assessment 2

1.      The Times newspaper is more formal and tend to have a more upper-class audience. The time is a right-wing newspaper so it is more in favour towards to the conservative. However, it is overall tires to not be bias towards any party. Whereas the Daily Mirror is more informal, the target audience tend to be working class. It is a left-wing newspaper therefore it is more in favour towards the labour party. The Mirror in difference to the Times is more like a tabloid and report soft news, whilst the Times are more like report to hard news. The Daily Mirror’s layout has more picture than text, and include things such as puns and bright colours. Which differs to the times which would include more text and smaller pictures which reflect their seriousness of the news. The Daily Mirror is more likely to report pop news as well. For example, the Mirror’s report on Theresa May, the Headline included a pun, ‘Mayhem’ and they also include an unflattering...
Curran and Seaton's power and media industries theory is to make money from a media product, we need more diversity in order to get the audience's attention. It limits competition,  it leads to certain business to owning everything, it leads to lack of creativity. The audience has the power to control things. the film regulations in the uk is highly inefficient. Key Theory 13- regulation -Sonia Livingstone and Peter Hunt  the increasing power of global media corporations together with the rise of convergent media technologies and transformation in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media, have placed traditional approaches to media regulation at risk. newspapers in the uk are largely self-regulation. 5. *Reporting Suicide When reporting suicide, to prevent simulative acts care should be taken to avoid excessive detail of the method used, while taking into account the media's right to report legal proceedings. 7. *Children in sex cases The p...