02 news: representation

1 which women are represented and how they are represented? 

Women are under represented in the 1960s Observer which reflects a patriarchal social and cultural context. Women were often represented within their relationship with men rather than them as an individual, they must always be accompanied with a man to be viewed with any sort of significance. For example  "Jackie: We're very happy", this is where the wife of a dead US president remarries which shows she had only made the paper simply because she was the wife of an incredibly famous man in power and is know having to defend herself for remarrying another man.

Secondly, in the 1960s observer, women are also only represented if they show any significance within politics or in the monarchy such as how the Queen is one of the very few women represented outside of advertisements specifically tailored to women. On top of that the only other female politician mentioned is Barbara Castle, reflecting the political context of greater union power in that decade.

Music magazines: Media language

 Look carefully at the front covers of MOJO and RNR magazines. 

QUESTION: How far do MOJO and RNR use different media language to create different connotations? (CONNOTATION meaning: an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning.)

Answer on your blog. This is a high-value question and should take all lesson to answer. You can use the class blog search engine for more examples of how to analyse music magazines.

In your answer you should have 2 paragraphs:

• analyse the media language in MOJO and RNR magazine. 'Media language' includes the placement of the main image, the type of photography, lighting, colours, fonts, how busy or restrained the cover is, the layout (such as alignment to the margins), how serious or playful 
• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language is used differently in both extracts to create different connotations. Are there similarities in both covers? What sorts of audiences are they targeting? You could think about MOJO's rock aesthetic of living loud and dangerously compared to RNR's folk, rock, blues vibe.
• One of the magazines is busier than the other. Mojo has a much more cluttered and busy layout and style because of its numerous cover lines, images and puffs as well as a very dynamic cover mount in neon colours with a vibrant cartoon image. RnR also has many cover lines but they are all more minimalistic and justified to the RH margin. They are exclusively in white creating a calm, orderly, uncluttered quality. Equally the cover mount with its modest verbal play, unheard with its very plain and streamlined. Mojo's choice of colours is vibrant, electric and dynamic, particularly in the primary colours of the cover mount with its playful skeleton by contrast RnR uses soft, dull browns and only red as an accent colour.
• The Title and font of FOO fighters is a sans serif font. It creates a very colourful and expressive style that can instantly pull the reader in at a moments notice and also places the band member at the focus of the image.
• In RnR the main image of the man is meeting our gaze in a calmly manor rather than aggressive like the Foo fighters.
• Although both magazines conform to genre conventions. Both feature a star as the centre of visual interest, and both magazines celebrate that star, Mojo does so in a more dynamic, aggressive, confrontational way compared to RnR's gentle, low key folksy vibe. This is because Mojo targets a primarily male rock audience while RnR is aimed at folk and blues audiences.
• Although both music magazines feature many articles which is typical of music magazines RnR is more oderly and restrained. 
• Representation of age or gender 
• The celebration of older musicians- e.g. the photo of Nick Cave and the reference to Elton John who was big in 1970s- goes against stereotypes of popular musicians being young.
• The stereotypical representation of older people as facing an uncertain future- "there are a lot of grievers out there"
• The stereotypical linking of excess and youth but using a photo of the member s of the queen when young to illustrate a coverline about excess.
• The stereotypical representation of male seriousness and authority in the image of Nick Cave.
• The stereotypical representation of male artists as excessive in the coverline about Queen
• The stereotypical link of masculinity and warfare in the coverline.

* Explain how music videos use media language to promote their artists. Refer to the pair of music videos

 you have studied from the list below in your answer.

Mise en scene

camera work

sound work

Writing the statement of intent

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MOJO October issue

 

The values of the observer

- The observer online provides hard news such as "Business ministers bids to calm crisis fears as UK gas prices soar", telling people the truth as hurtful as it may be.

- The observer keeps everyone up to date with plenty of the worlds important news such as fake covid news.

- The Observer online allows its viewers to comment and share the articles. Allowing people to comment their opinions helps to bring in more and more viewers as more and more gets shared.

- Features many cultures and ethnicities which is something you would never see from an Observer news paper in the 60's.

- The observer covers many important subjects in today's world, such as drugs, Covid and politics.

- The observer does not conflict with anyone's opinions as all their articles do not take sides and instead give you the cold, hard news like it should.

- The observer is seen as a reliable source of information for many people as the truth is exactly what the readers want to see.

-shares similar ideals or values to its "sister paper" the Guardian.

- The Observer shows pride in sharing its values. It has a little amount of ads and focuses on the hard news such as politics etc.

- In conclusion I believe that the Observer very clearly shows its beliefs and values through its use of representation, hard news and the truth to provide its readers with only the best online news paper.

Developing ideas

 Some Dummy articles 10/9/21

Want to tame your inner thrill seeker? Alton towers may be the right place for you!

Alton towers may just be the most iconic and best park in the UK and is known throughout the world as a Thrill capital on the same level at Cedar point in Ohio! But why is that? why is deemed as the best park in the UK? Well I'll answer it for you. Firstly, Alton Towers is home to a large collection of roller coasters (7 to be exact. Which may not sound like a lot, but for a theme park that's a pretty large amount!) many being either worlds first or early versions of their kind such as Oblivion and Galactica (previously known as Air) which were the worlds first dive and flying coaster respectively. Or the ferocious Nemesis, the world's second B&M inverted coaster after Batman: the ride at Six Flags Great America. Nemesis is widely regarded as the best of its type mostly due its effective use of the terrain and excellent theming. They even have a world record breaking roller coaster, The Smiler which has 14 inversions which is more than any roller coaster in the world!

Icon: Do you dare to ride it?

Icon is the Mack rides multi launch roller coaster that opened at Blackpool pleasure beach in 2018 and took the UK coaster community by storm. It reaches a top speed of 52.8 mph and a maximum height of 82ft (25m). Icon represents a huge investment of £16.25 million. Since 1994, The Pepsi Max Big one has been the park's signature attraction, standing tall at 213ft. However in 2018, the park finally saw a major addition to rival the likes of Alton towers and Thorpe park who had been dominating the UK theme park industry for decades. Their last major addition was in 2007 with Infusion the park's Vekoma SLC (suspended looping coaster). Not only was Icon already impressive but was a very new experience for UK and even Europe as a whole as the only other Mack multi launch coasters in Europe are Blue fire at Europa Park, Germany, and Helix at Liseberg, Sweden. Icon is located in the heart of park and can be seen from almost anywhere when visiting and features 15 interactions with the park's other attractions such as the Big Dipper, Steeple chase and the Big one, and because of this it makes it stand out from most rides as interactions like this are very hard to pull off with most types of rides. The theming does leave a lot to be desired but the large amount of interactions and an overall beautiful off ride look more than makes up for it. Smoothness is one incredibly important factor for a roller coaster,  as it can either make or break the experience for many people. Luckily Icon is incredibly smooth and in my opinion it is by far the smoothest ride in the UK. The seats are stupidly comfortable and lap bars create a unique experience as it gives you a lot of freedom compared to over shoulder restraints which feel more restrictive.

Other dummy titles:

The island like no other. Does Thorpe park match up to Alton Towers?

Does the thrill capital of the South stack up against its more beloved cousin?

Tamer thrills. The guide to UK's best family rides.

The best family rides for the more feint of heart. Parks such as Chessington world of adventures and Paultons park hold some of the best in the country.

How to cut the queues. Getting in as many rides as possible.

The First Drop

This is the logo I created for my magazine The First Drop. I created and designed this logo myself. I wanted to go for a striking look but still keep to theme of roller coasters hence why you can see the very faint outlines of famous UK coasters in the dark letter colouring. The name came from the idea of a roller coasters first drop, which is often its most intense and thrilling part so it makes the magazine seem like the best and most thrilling roller coaster magazine there is.