Abdiillah Media Exam

  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

  1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women’s magazines? It focuses on intelligent women, serious content, and simple design. It avoids gossip and beauty trends. 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman? Women are shown as smart, confident, creative, and independent. They are not objectified or stereotyped. 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine. Average reader is aged 30 to 45, highly educated, high income, works in creative or professional jobs. 4) What is The Gentlewoman Club? It is a social club for readers. It includes events, talks, and meetups in real locations. 5) What theorists does it suggest we can apply to the Gentlewoman’s club? Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, Henry Jenkins. Theories about identity, audience, and participation. 6) What does the writer of article suggest they are getting out of their relationship with the magazine? They feel inspired and...

Gentlewoman front cover 1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? They are clean, modern, and simple. This makes the magazine feel serious and stylish. 2) How does the cover subvert conventional magazine cover design? No big headlines or busy text. Just a close-up photo and the title. It looks more like art or a book cover than a normal magazine. 3) Write an analysis of the central image. It’s a close-up of a serious face. Bold red lips and purple eyeshadow. She looks powerful and confident, not soft or smiling. 4) What representations of gender and celebrity can be found on this front cover? Shows a woman as bold and strong. Not sexualised. She’s presented as powerful and smart, not just a pretty celebrity. 5) What gender and representation theories can we apply to this cover of the Gentlewoman? Judith Butler: gender is performed the makeup is a choice. Laura Mulvey: not for the male gaze not made to please men. Van Zoonen: women shown as thinking and st...

1) How does the media kit introduction describe GQ? A flagship of men's style and fashion. 2) What does the media kit suggest about masculinity? It is evolving, which is making men's fashion increasingly popular. 3) Pick out three statistics from the data on page 2 and explain what they suggest about the GQ audience. 61% are ABC1 – they are mostly upper or middle class who have money to spend. £138k is the average household income of the people who read GQ. £7.7k is spent on fashion annually, which means they care about and value 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: ISSUE & EVENT – From the idyllic setting of Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire comes GQ’s first flagship event of the year. GQ Heroes is a festival of ideas that brings together gamechangers, creative radicals, deep thinkers and cultural icons for three days of panels and live performances. ...

  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- A really impressive eam: clearly excellent revision and knowledge here EBI- Just film industry+BBTL holding you back from A 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:  • this advertisement makes heavy use of what Neale describes as ‘instances of repetition’, where familiar tropes and imagery are used to engage with audience expectations around media products. The advert works by explicitly conne...