Media Blog 1

 Front cover 1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? The typography used for the title clearly suggests to the audience that this magazine is artsy, creative and thoughtful as it can be said that it looks like brush strokes, like a painting of sorts. 2) The words under the title introduce the content and topics addressed. What do these suggest about the potential audience of  Oh Comely ? These words suggest that the Oh Comely reader is arguably slightly pretentious as they tries to be overly creative, which gives it an aggressive, in your face vibe, in perhaps a similar way to that of the magazine. 3) How do the cover lines use narrative to create enigma? What do the cover lines suggest about the magazine's content and audience? The cover lines like "mischief" create enigma as it is a code to the reader,making them think about what the magazine is about as well as give us an idea of what kind of people an Oh Comely reader is like. Tha

1) How does  Oh Comely  introduce itself? Oh Comely introduces itself as an eccentric and imaginative ladies way of life magazine, which centers around women's activist articles and can be depicted as excessively white collar class. 2) How do the print circulation/readership statistics for  Oh Comely  compare to  Men's Health ? Social Media Reach: 100,000  Readers Per Issue: 25,000  Average Age of reader: 27  These figures are a considerable measure lower than the insights for MH, notwithstanding the normal age. This is on account of Oh Comely is a significant specialty magazine, went for a substantially littler gathering of people contrasted with that of Men's Health. 3) How is  Oh Comely  distributed to the audience?  Oh Comely is distributed through independents, WHSmith and international outlets. 4) What do you think the target audience demographics for  Oh Comely  might be? Some details are provided by the magazine (e.g. average age 27) but make an educate

Magazines index: Men's Health Your Magazines index should include the following so far: 1) Men's Health - Audience 2) Men's Health - booklet blog summary 3) Men's Health - Representation journal article and questions 4) Magazine production task - learner response 5) Men's Health - Industries and the impact of digital media 6) Oh Comely - Audience 7) Oh Comely - Close-textual analysis 8) Oh Comely - Representation 9) Oh Comely - Industry case study 10)  End of Year 1 exam - learner response

Magazine front cover - Learner response Create a new blogpost called 'Magazine cover learner response' and complete the following tasks: 1) Add your finished magazine cover as a JPEG image.  2) Type up your feedback from your teacher. If you've received this by email, you can copy and paste it across - WWW and EBIs. WWW : nice image, colour scheme and proportionality.  TPF: typography didn't match the original, should be a mixture of serif and sans serif fonts.  3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the strengths of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover  conventions  and the media language techniques you have used to communicate with your audience (e.g. mise-en-scene, camera shot etc.) Strengths:  Satisfactory application of knowledge and understanding of media language Appropriate but inconsistently effective selection and combination of straightforward elements to communica

Research 1) Use your lesson notes on magazine genres and conventions to view a range of potential magazine covers.  Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and embed an example front cover from each one. 2)  Select your chosen magazine to create a new edition for and explain the thinking behind your choice. Out of the three magazines i have researched, i chose this magazine due to the fact my main idea centres around this image as i will be using a black model applying the themes of red and black to promote fashion within vogue magazine. Furthermore, i also have previously bought quite a few vogue magazines, thus i know how their displayed and the strap lines that are usually utilised in the front cover. Therefore, this will aid me when producing my magazine cover as i will ensure the details. 3) Find  three  different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blog post. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What

Hearst distributing Research Hearst distributing by taking a gander at the Hearst UK site and the Wikipedia passage for parent organization and combination Hearst Communications.  1) Hearst UK is part of Hearst Communications. What is Hearst Communications and where is it based? Hearst Communications is an American media combination situated in New York, it possesses a scope of media and business data brands including American daily papers, magazines, and half of A&E Network TV Channels and 20% of US Sports telecasters.  2) What media industries and brands make up the Hearst Communications conglomerate? Hearst Communications incorporates the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan and Esquire.  $10.8 Billion out of 2017.  4) Focusing on Hearst UK, what other magazine brands are a piece of Hearst UK distributing? What number of UK individuals do they reach in print and on the web?  Magazines, for example, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan and Esquir

1) Save your finished Photoshop magazine cover as a JPEG image and upload it to your evaluation blog post . 2) Write an evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? I do believe I have successfully created a magazine cover which is similar to the original vogue magazines; this is because I spent time researching all the aspects that make up the vogue magazine and tried to incorporate most of them into my magazine cover.  3) Put your cover alongside a couple of genuine covers of your chosen magazine. How professional is your work alongside genuine examples? Compared to these genuine covers, my central image isn’t as professional because it wasn’t taken with studio lighting. However, I believe that the title ‘Vogue’ looks very professional and the cover lines are not too far off from what they look they on the actual magazine.  4 ) What is the strongest aspect of your work? I thi