Antonia's A-level Media Blog

  1) Magazines: Front cover practical task 2) Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation 3) Magazines: GQ - Audience & Industry 4) Magazines: Front cover practical task LR 5) Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Language and Representations 6) Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries 7) Magazines: Industries - the appeal of print and independent magazines

 There are five reasonably short tasks for The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries plus some optional extension work for those aiming for the very top grades. Create a blogpost called 'The Gentlewoman: Audience and Industries' and work through the following: 1) Media Magazine feature: Pleasures of The Gentlewoman Go to  our Media Magazine archive  and read the article on The Gentlewoman (MM84 - page 34). Answer the following questions: 1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women's magazines?  Traditional women's magazines can be spotted from afar and are created to catch your eye et first glance by looking mesmerizing. The gentlewoman doesn't do that, you'd have to take your time and purposefully be looking for it and then read it to be mesmerized. 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   Womanhood, androgyny, intersectionality/ multiculturalism 3) List the key statistics in the articl...

  Close-textual analysis Work through the following tasks to complete your close-textual analysis of the Gentlewoman   CSP pages: Gentlewoman front cover  1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? Suggests that they are modern and unconventional 2) How does the cover subvert conventional magazine cover design? No cover lines, big close up on celebrity. Nothing to really advertise the magazine. 3) Write an analysis of the central image. The combination of the low angle and direct address connotes dominance and power in Scarlett Johanson which subvert female stereotypes. The big close up on the celebrity is unconventional for a magazine cover where it is usually a mid shot. This represents the magazine's nature of wanting to be different rather than copy other magazines. 4)  What representations of gender and celebrity can be found on this front cover? Gender: Powerful, dominant Celebrity: Powerful, influential 5) What gender and represen...

  Create a new blogpost on your Media   Exam blog  called ' Media Paper 1 learner response ' and work through the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW: excellent knowledge of CSPs throughout EBI:  unseen text analysis and Q6 holding you back from an A grade. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify  ONE  point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory:  Schatz: genres of order Q2 (unseen text and CSP) additional point/theory/CSP reference:  both products can be seen as simulated versions of reality featuring self-consciously stylised hyper- masculine constructions, presenting the ...

  Audience Look through  the GQ Media Kit  and answer the following questions:  1) How does the media kit introduction describe GQ? As the flagship of men’s fashion and style in Britain, to be GQ is to be forward-looking, progressive and cutting-edge. 2) What does the media kit suggest about masculinity?  It is evolving 3) Pick out  three  statistics from the data on page 2 and explain what they suggest about the GQ audience. 212k readership: Loyal readers 7.7k average annual spend on fashion: People who care deeply about how they look. 4) Look at page 3 - brand highlights. What special editions do GQ run and what do these suggest about the GQ audience? GQ heroes event GQ hype Men of the year Tentpole video and social series Their audience are high class people with influence in the media. 5) Still on page 3, what does the video and social series section suggest about how magazine audiences are changing?  Audiences are more attentive and active on...