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I had the privilege to watch Saint Lucinda perform at a gig in their home town.

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Einstein who features in my music magazine has kindly allowed me to film him practising one of his original songs from his brand new album.

Deconstruction of a magazine cover- Heat magazine

Heat Magazine is a weekly magazine which specialises in entertaining readers with recent celebrity news and gossip. Heat magazine is published by Bauer which is one of the oligopoly of magazine publishers. 

Representation of women- Females celebrities are often shown on the front cover but are usually referred to as the victim or sexually objectified for a male audience. Many female celebrities on the cover are portrayed in a negative light to satisfy the reader.

Target audience- The primary audience is 18-35 year old women and the magazine is also read by 35-55 year old women who are known as the secondary audience.

Communicating with the target audience- The covers use bright saturated secondary colours as well as high key lighting to interest the reader. The majority of the front cover is taken over by photographs of celebrities to show the reader what else is in the magazine. The masthead is in bright red writing and lower case letters are used to imply creativity. There is also a shadow effect on the letters making it look three dimensional and stand out more to the reader in terms of brand identity. A sell line banner is used above the masthead which has a direct mode of address. The image content occasionally has a dominant and oppositional reading. There are many exclamation points to provide an upbeat and a positive mode of address to excite the readers. Binary oppositions are used to reinforce representations.

Conventions of a magazine cover

In todays lesson, I learnt that the front cover of a magazine has many important features which are significant in convention magazines. I learnt that the Masthead is the name of the magazine which is usually followed by the Tagline which shows what the magazine is about or who it is aiming at. The central image of a magazine is extremely important because a lot of features in the image can be denoted and connoted. Most magazines have a model on the cover so as a class we thought about how they dressed in a certain way and what the connotations of the image were. We also learnt that Anchorage gives an image meaning, that Puffs are used to promote certain elements and that Pugs display a promotion from the magazine. Secondary images are very significant because they help promote other features of the magazine to interest the reader.
The 'Bazaar' magazine cover is extremely eye-catching because of the masthead and the tagline because the font is large which reinforces power suggesting female empowerment. The colour of the font is red which implies love and passion which makes the cover model seem desirable. The tagline is at the bottom of the page instead of being underneath the masthead; it is explaining to the reader what the topic of the magazine is which is 'Best Dressed Women Of The Year'. The use of a pug is really effective for this magazine because the tag is golden which emphasises the importance of the 'Affordable Luxuries' and also the Pug is overlapping the masthead so it is one of the first things someone reads. The central image is of Pop star Katy Perry who is well-known which automatically draws attention to the reader if they are interested in the celebrity on the front page. The anchorage is a useful concept on a magazine cover because it explains what the image is referred to so the cover model is Katy Perry and the anchorage explains that in case people are not aware who she is.

 

 

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This is the first time I am using 'blogger' and I am really excited about using a blog. For A-level I am taking Media Studies, Theatre Studies, English Language and Art.