MAGAZINES ASSESMENT BLOG

 1) What is a convention of a magazine cover? Give an example from Tatler. [2 marks]

An example of a convention on a magazine cover is cover lines, and an example from tatler is "THE ONE MONTH GAP YEAR"

2) How does the front cover of Tatler use media language to appeal to its target audience? [6 marks]

The cover of tatler uses media language to appeal to its target audience by the color choice. This is because the colors are pink and beige which are both quite feminine and rich colors, often associated with the upper class. Also, the model is heavily made up which shows she is made to stand out. In addition, the bracketed phrase (YES REALLY) shows the 

3) How does the front cover of Reveal magazine represent female celebrities? [12 marks]

   The cover of reveal magazine represents females as sly and cunning. This is undoubtedly displayed where a subtitle 'KATIE PLOTS SECRET MEETINGS WITH PETE'. In particular, the verb 'plot' and the noun 'secret' shows her discreet manner as she dosent want anyone knowing about this meeting between them. Th reader feels slightly intrigued, because you want to find out why that meeting was communicated to the reader in such a secretive way. 

The front cover could also show women as obsessive for relationships or babies. This could be sensationalize of women as its in a way pressuring women to have children as the target audience for reveal is middle aged women. This is shown where the cover lines says' blooming baby bumps' and 'cheryl becomes a very posh mum'. This message is portrayed because if celebrities are having children, then you also should too.

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 2) What is the font choice used on the cover and what does this choice connote? Here's a blog to help you with this as we haven't been able to complete the Photoshop typography lesson yet due to Covid-19. 

The font choice is sans serif, because this magazine is more gossipy and its not as posh.

3) How do the cover lines appeal to the Reveal target audience?

They speak about lifestyle and fashion, which is very  appalling to women, who typically 


4) What are the connotations of the Reveal colour scheme on this particular front cover?
    The colour scheme is pink/red and yellow which connotes a feminine audience.

5) How are images used to create interest in the magazine? Find three reasons for your answer. (E.g. mise-en-scene such as props, costume and make-up, body position, facial expression).

6) What differences can you find between the use of design and typography between Tatler and Reveal? List at least three and explain the effect on audiences.

Tattler is serif whereas reveal is sans serif, this could how a difference in sophistication between audiences. 

Also, the layout of tattler is much more clean and neat, however reveal is more messy and all over the place.

Representations

1) What type of celebrities appear on the front cover? How are they represented in Reveal? (Positive? Negative? Reinforcing or challenging stereotypes?) Its mainly celebrities that are washed up, and no one really cares about them, exept someone maybe in their mid 30s and 40s

2) How are women represented on the cover of Reveal? Think about both images and cover lines here.
they are prsented and kind of cunning because of katy secretly meeting with her ex husband.

3) How do Reveal and Tatler represent social class? (E.g. middle/upper class and working class)
 Reveal repreents the working class as its 99p and its released weekly. tatler represents the upper class because its released monthly which shows thay think about what to put in their magazine and the readers of tatler mostly own designer.

4) What would be the preferred and oppositional readings to this cover of Reveal?

     

Social and cultural context

1) What aspects of British life are reflected in Reveal? How does this compare to Tatler?

Its mainly what people dont see, like 
     
2) What do the cover lines in Reveal suggest about the issues and lifestyle of Reveal readers?

3) Find three other front covers for Reveal. What issues or features regularly appear in Reveal?