Dishant Media 1 Blog (exam)

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 6)  Oh Comely - Audience 7) Oh Comely - Close-textual analysis 8) Oh Comely - Representation 9) Oh Comely - Industry case study 10) End of Year 1 exam - learner response

1) How do representations in  Oh Comely  challenge stereotypes?  Oh Comely challenged stereotypes as women are being portrayed different. Instead of acknowledging their beauty, we acknowledge their intellect and other parts of their beauty apart from them being in very short clothes. 2) What representations of race, ethnicity and nationality can be found in the 'Speaking Out' feature? They don't use traditional models on their magazine, for example,they used a Somalian girl which is a race that hasn't been represented all that much in mainstream magazines for some reason and they have chosen to challenge this. 3) What representation of women and femininity can be found in  Oh Comely ? Oh Comely focuses on empowering women and showing how women cam be very successful for very positive things and deserve to be appreciated as much as men. 4) Why might  Oh Comely  deliberately under-represent men? (The absence of men in the magazine appears t...

1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? The typography is clear and isolated which suggests that the magazine is actually different to the all the other magazines and are their own individual brand who will provide the reader with an experience that other brands simply do not. 2) The words under the title introduce the content and topics addressed. What do these suggest about the potential audience of  Oh Comely ? Although when you begin to the read the content and topics addressed as you read further down the list there is actually a wider audience potential as there are things which most people would actually associate with themselves such as "mischievous" which most people could relate to. 3) How do the cover lines use narrative to create enigma? What do the cover lines suggest about the magazine's content and audience? Once again by using words such as mischief this allows enigma to be created as you would like to know what kin...

1) How does  Oh Comely  introduce itself? "an alternative to the 'pile-0it-high-sell-it-cheap' aesthetic of mainstream magazines" I think that they have chosen to promote oh comely as an alternative magazine and represent the rest of the magazines as inferior good compared to their own and that anyone who reads anything other then theirs is some sort of sheet following the heard. 2) How do the print circulation/readership statistics for  Oh Comely  compare to  Men's Health ? The print circulation and readership statistics for Oh Comely are much lower than Men's Health as they target a more niche audience and do not make it so that it appeals to everyone    3) How is  Oh Comely  distributed to the audience? Oh comely is distributed to the audience through companies which are not particularly known for selling magazines such as WHSmith, however are easily accessible to readers who would like to purchase the copies of the magazine. ...

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...