Ron's AS Media Blog: 2015

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Formative blog feedback - Miss Hunter

Ron, your blog is on track.

So far:

WWW: You are working diligently and you understand the conventions of a magazine. I can see that you have applied them in the preliminary task to good effect. Well done.

EBI: Try to work faster to catch up with the best students in the class. You can do very well in this coursework, but you need to push yourself to start the next task and avoid wasting lesson time.

Next steps:

Case study of a magazine of your choice - front cover analysis, contents page analysis, double page spread analysis, colour (throughout the magazine) analysis.

Keep up the good effort.

Friday, 4 December 2015

Analysis of Magazine language

Q magazine

Q magazine has a target audience of adults interested in music. For example, the magazine uses intelligent, descriptive language throughout. “The same charming lack of guile runs through … the band’s debut”. The word “guile” is sophisticated and assumes that the reader understands this level of vocabulary easily. This suggests that the audience is well educated about this type of music.

Also, it seems that it is written for very passionate music fans. For example, on an article about the singer ‘Miguel’, the magazine uses passionate language such as “I FUCKING LOVE YOU, MIGUEL!” The words ‘fucking’ and ‘love’ show how passionate the audience is about the singer.

Q magazine also has a target audience of people who are interested in musician’s lives before fame. An article about ‘Krept & Konan’ goes from “Wilson’s (Konan) stepfather Ned tried to force the intruder…..was shot dead on the stairs” to “When we walk through Thornton Heath, the cars beep, everyone gives love”. The article uses a lot of emotive language to get the story across to the audience. Words such as ‘shot’ and ‘love’ show pain and make the reader feel a type of way.

Friday, 20 November 2015

Colours in Magazines

DA VIBE

This magazine from VIBE uses the colours black, white and gold.

The target audience is for males and females aged 16-30 and have an interest in rap music.

The colour gold is the colour of success, achievement and triumph. Associated with abundance and prosperity, luxury and quality, prestige and sophistication, value and elegance, the psychology of this colour implies affluence, material wealth and extravagance. This attracts the reader as it contrasts from the colour black.

The colour white on the main title also attracts readers because it is bright and it also contrasts with the black background and image.

The black in the background brings out the image and the

other colours used in the front. Black gives it a more mysterious look.

XBOX official Magazine

The main colours used in this magazine are white, green and black. These three colours are used specifically to suit the target audience and the genre of the magazine itself. The target audience is mostly males but can be females that also use the console ages 14-30. This magazine will draw in people that like playing video games and that own an XBOX console themselves.

Throughout the magazine the colours which are used on the cover are also linked to the different articles and pictures included in it. The colour green represents the main colour of XBOX. The reason why this colour has been used is because it will stand out to XBOX fans and it will make them pick it up and maybe buy it. The colour green also stands out and will also attract the reader into picking it up. The white is mainly used for the subtitles.

The main image used for the magazine is a mid-shot of a character from a video game wearing a space suit.

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Editors Letter Analysis

Easy Living – editor’s letter (September 2012)

The Easy Living Magazine is set out and targeted to middle aged women between the ages 30-55. The magazine includes a lot of factors which will attract a wide ranged audience. The editor of the magazine presents herself and starts off with a ‘welcome’ in big bold letters which makes it stand out at the top of the page and attracts the reader into wanting to read more. The fact that the editor uses an exclamation mark also gives it a more joyful tone and gives the reader a warmer welcome. Also, Deborah quotes that she is 37 which is better as she is trying to reach out to women the same sort of age.

Throughout the letter you notice that the word ‘your’ has been used quite frequently. This makes the note feel more personal to the reader as they feel more involved in it. The editor has used the technique where she forms a relationship with the reader to make them feel more special. By doing this, the reader chooses to carry on reading as they feel very involved.

Another way of interacting with her audience is by asking rhetorical questions. This makes the readers reflect and answer the question in their heads. This is a very good technique to engage the readers into the text.