Dishant Media 1 Blog (exam)

Judith Butler argues that gender is a performance and that gendered behaviour is socially constructed. To what extent do your magazine close study products support the idea that gender is a performance.[25 Marks] Judith butler argues that gender is a performance and gendered behaviour is socially constructed, she suggests that gender is a performance and the way we behave and that gender is not natural and that we have learned to become the way which we are and that our views on traditional masculinity and femininity have been constructed. I think that our close study product, being Men's Health does not supports the idea that gender is a performance as the magazine is supposed to reach as wide of an audience as possible to increase the sales of its products, however in this case chooses not to and instead chooses to appeal to a very niche audience. Already by having a name such as Men's Health, this suggests that half the population have already been cut out of the potential...

1) Hearst UK is part of Hearst Communications. What is Hearst Communications and where is it based? Hearst owns a wide variety of  newspapers ,  magazines ,  television channels , and  television stations  is an American mass  media  and business information conglomerate  based  in New York City, New York. 2) What media industries and brands make up the Hearst Communications conglomerate? Hearst communications are a media based company which has many assets and holdings in the media industry. It owns some of the leading Newspapers, Magazines and television channels which are based in America, but are distributed and broadcasted around the world. 3) What was the global revenue for Hearst Communications (in dollars) for the most recent year on record? Hearst communications made a massive 10.8 billion dollars last year(2017), however there was not an increase from the previous year and every successful company woul...

1) Why is Men's Health defined as a 'lifestyle magazine'? "T hey make sure to show its readers from the first pages that the publication is not just limited to healthy questions, but it includes more topics concerning men."   This 'lifestyle' term was conceived as a marketing strategy to grab men’s attention. 2) Why is advertising significant in helping to shape masculine identity? Advertising is significant in helping to shape masculine identity as this is what allows many of the magazines to continue running as this is the main source of profit over the actual the cost of the magazine and allows magazines to reduce their cost price as the magazines advertisements could be seen as a sort of subsidy which will reduce the companies costs of production and arguably this is how many of the trend setting forms of media are funded. 3) The article suggests that the representation of masculinity in Men's Health is not fixed or natural and is subje...

1)  Men's Health - Audience 2)  Men's Health - booklet blog summary 3)  Men's Health - Representation journal article and questions 4)  Magazine production task - learner response 5)  Men's Health - Industries and the impact of digital media

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 EBIs. WWW - Effective image/ layout.  - Good use of Blur / Vignette  EBI - Wrong choice of typography for cover title. - Closer attention to detail. e.g. spelling  3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the strengths of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover  conventions  and the media language techniques you have used to communicate with your audience (e.g. mise-en-scene, camera shot etc.) I think that some of my strengths were more in the actual editing of the photo to try and make it as close as possible to the original picture so that it can easily be compared and also to show some of the visual effects such as the blur or vignette. 4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher...

1) Write a one-paragraph summary of your notes for each key concept from the booklet: Media Language (e.g. conventions, narrative, genre etc.) Media Industries (e.g. Hearst Communications) Media Audiences (e.g. demographics, psychographics, pleasures) Media Representations (e.g. masculinity) 2) Identify three specific aspects/conventions (e.g. cover line, colour scheme, text, image etc.) from each page of the CSP that you could refer to in a future exam. Explain why that particular aspect of the CSP is important - think about connotations, representations, audience pleasures, reception theory etc. Front cover: Vin Diesel Editor's Letter and contents page Feature: True Grit - 'The Marathon Man' 3) Type up three media theories that you think are particularly relevant to analysing Men's Health and explain why they are significant: 4) Type up three quotes from the booklet that you think are particularly useful for analysing Men's ...

1) Final magazine cover: 2) Write an  evaluation  of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? I think that I have succeeded in creating a similar copy to an existing magazine although I could have had more differences I chose to try and show off some of the things which would have been harder to replicate from the original magazine in an attempt to show my ability, but added a few original things to it to make it what I would like to think even better. 3) Put your cover alongside a couple of genuine covers of your chosen magazine. How   professional  is you r work alongside genuine examples Mine: Original: 4) What is the strongest aspect of your work? I think that the strongest aspect of my work is how many subtle features are included which the original magazine cover has and will probably not be acknowledged at first glance but are actually some...