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Thursday 25th September Media Lesson..
Last Thursday in our media lesson we learnt about different types and genres of magazines. We learnt that genres are a type or category we use to classify something into a group, so in application to magazines, an example of a magazine genre is consumer lifestyle. Furthermore, in genres there are often sub - genres such as women's weekly, weekly celebrity gossip, music and men's health magazines. In groups we were given different magazines, which were all sub - genres of consumer lifestyle. The magazine we looked at was the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine. We had to analyze the front cover and see how it appealed to the audiences the magazine attracts. We believed that a typical reader of this magazine would be a female who lived at home and spent her time looking after and satisfying her children and husband. We also discussed that it would be very likely that for a typical 'housewife' a picture of flowers or of something relating to the home would be appealing and make them pick up the magazine. Also, the colours used, purple, white blue and green are all soft colours so they are less offensive to the readers eye and may be more attractive to the target audience of 'Good Housekeeping'. After this exercise, Lousida gave us another magazine, 'NME' which i
s a music magazine, which is a sub genre of 'Consumer Lifestyle' magazines. We learnt how the NME magazine is different to the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine in its layout, design, audience and terminology. We noted that in comparison to the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine, the 'NME' magazine had more dramatic colours like red, black and white to grab the readers' attention and also has a picture of a famous singer which would appeal to the typical 'NME' reader. After this we did audience profiling on the magazine and came up with the idea that the typical NME reader would be between the ages of 16 - 35, single and looking, or having a girlfriend, would be someone who could be able to travel to festivals and performances regularly and be possibly working class. Then our next task was to write a day in the life of the typical NME reader. My story was set as if the NME reader had had a get together the night before and had a flat covered in beer cans and clothes. He decides to not go to work and instead decides to sleep off his hangover and eats leftover pizza and beer for breakfast because he has no milk or bread in the flat. I decided to make my NME reader working class, and a smoker. After this was completed, we were then set our next task, to plan and create our own magazine covers, and to prepare for a photoshoot on Monday 29th September.
Last Thursday in our media lesson we learnt about different types and genres of magazines. We learnt that genres are a type or category we use to classify something into a group, so in application to magazines, an example of a magazine genre is consumer lifestyle. Furthermore, in genres there are often sub - genres such as women's weekly, weekly celebrity gossip, music and men's health magazines. In groups we were given different magazines, which were all sub - genres of consumer lifestyle. The magazine we looked at was the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine. We had to analyze the front cover and see how it appealed to the audiences the magazine attracts. We believed that a typical reader of this magazine would be a female who lived at home and spent her time looking after and satisfying her children and husband. We also discussed that it would be very likely that for a typical 'housewife' a picture of flowers or of something relating to the home would be appealing and make them pick up the magazine. Also, the colours used, purple, white blue and green are all soft colours so they are less offensive to the readers eye and may be more attractive to the target audience of 'Good Housekeeping'. After this exercise, Lousida gave us another magazine, 'NME' which i
s a music magazine, which is a sub genre of 'Consumer Lifestyle' magazines. We learnt how the NME magazine is different to the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine in its layout, design, audience and terminology. We noted that in comparison to the 'Good Housekeeping' magazine, the 'NME' magazine had more dramatic colours like red, black and white to grab the readers' attention and also has a picture of a famous singer which would appeal to the typical 'NME' reader. After this we did audience profiling on the magazine and came up with the idea that the typical NME reader would be between the ages of 16 - 35, single and looking, or having a girlfriend, would be someone who could be able to travel to festivals and performances regularly and be possibly working class. Then our next task was to write a day in the life of the typical NME reader. My story was set as if the NME reader had had a get together the night before and had a flat covered in beer cans and clothes. He decides to not go to work and instead decides to sleep off his hangover and eats leftover pizza and beer for breakfast because he has no milk or bread in the flat. I decided to make my NME reader working class, and a smoker. After this was completed, we were then set our next task, to plan and create our own magazine covers, and to prepare for a photoshoot on Monday 29th September.
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