Media Blog 1- Mr Bush

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?  “The only text is the title, subtitle and name of the person is the photographer, which is taken as a portrait and framed like a painting. It’s a bold statement that says it’s more than just a magazine, it’s art.” 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   It’s presents a “spectrum of womanhood” this includes playing with “gender performativity and stereotypes” such as  a botanist, a Zambian  rapper, a courtroom artist, a Moroccan  mountaineer 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine.  61% of its readers are aged 28-46 47% of its readers fall into the social classes of A or B 4) What is The Gentlewoman...

  The Gentlewoman: Language and Representation blog tasks 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? It suggests that this magazine is targeted towards those that are involved in celebrity culture due to the well known star on the cover 2) How does the cover subvert conventional magazine cover design? It has a boarder in which the main image is located, it has virtually no cover lines except for the name of the main image  3) Write an analysis of the central image. The makeup is very bold and honestly not cohesive at all. It is as if it's a purposeful presentation of women breaking the conventional beauty standards. She has a bold and bright red lip with an accentuated cupids bow - a feature that most women try and cover up with over- lining the lips in modern society. She is also w...

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). Grade=B, 27/42 Q1) too much on Industry/marketing, focus more on genre, good writing Q2) good understanding but product is a bit overlooked Q3)detailed and integrated response Q4) forgot the 2nd box Q5) no comment Q6) some good points  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 connecting the watch to these w...