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Magazines: Front cover production task - learner response

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  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 EBI . You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to. WWW: Tara, you’ve produced a good magazine front cover to represent the DAZED brand. The edgy concept and design demonstrate good application of knowledge and understanding of media language which link to the DAZED brand identity. This can be seen through the grainy colour scheme, the single main cover line and the luxury prop of the Diesel handbag. All these elements help communicate clear meanings throughout the product which would relate to the intended target audience. EBI: Your evaluative comments are spot on in regard to the quality of your photography perhaps not being as professional as an original DAZED magazine front cover, well done for identifying this. The position and size of the bar code could be edited to fit more in...
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Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries

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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?  Compared with Vogue , Elle or Cosmopolitan , the gentlewoman has no need to shout. 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   The representation in the  gentlewoman is pleasingly wide  ranging. the gentlewoman does a pretty  good job of presenting a spectrum  of womanhood.  This includes playing with ideas of  gender performativity and stereotypes, such as the fashion feature on the  smart summer suit.m 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine.  Higher end of the average income (£87k), age of readers are around 28-46 years old, mostly female, those who are into creative/ artsy aesthetic...
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Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation

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Language: Media factsheet Complete the following tasks using Media Factsheet 252 - The Codes and Conventions of Print Magazines available in our Media Factsheet archive here . Answer the following questions: 1) What are the different magazine genres highlighted on page 2 and how do they link to our magazine CSPs? General, special and professional 2) Look at the section on GQ on page 2. How do they suggest that GQ targets its audience? They target their audiences through values, lifestyles and gender in order to target their audience 3) What does the factsheet say about GQ cover stars? GQ selects their cover stars  very carefully. In the December  2022 edition, they chose Marcus  Rashford, a Manchester United  footballer. However, this is  not the coverline they have  anchored him with. It is instead  “Campaigner of the Year.” His  high-profile criticism of the  government about stopping  free school meals during the  pandemic and hi...
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Magazine practical task research and planning

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Research 1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project.  Create a shortlist of  three  potential magazines and upload an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.                                                   2) Choose  one  of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then f ind  three  different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding....
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Advertising & Marketing: Index

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1)  Advertising: Introduction to advertising 2)  Advertising: the representation of women in advertising 3)  Advertising: Gauntlett and masculinity 4)  Advertising: Score hair cream CSP 5)  Advertising: Introduction to Postcolonialism 6)  Advertising: Sephora Black Beauty is Beauty CSP
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Advertising: Sephora Black Beauty Is Beauty CSP

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Wider reading on Sephora Black Beauty Is Beauty 1) What was Sephora trying to achieve with the campaign? In th e campaign, Sephora were trying to fix their   brand image and rebuild their reputation. It aimed to address negative perceptions such as Sephora is racist and show that the brand is more inclusive and diverse . They wanted people to feel represented and valued 2) What scenes from the advert are highlighted as particularly significant in the articles? beauty salon   with Black women under dryer,  drag show dressing room with drag queens getting ready,  Black mother and her daughter , showing generational beauty practices,  white person applying makeup contrasted with Black origins, reference to Lyda D. Newman and the invention of the hairbrush 3) As well as YouTube, what TV channels and networks did the advert appear on? BET,  OWN,  Hulu and  HBO Max 4) Why does the Refinery29 article suggest the advert 'doesn't feel performative'?...
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