Final Production Piece

Group Analysis of Women in Media

 

Shape magazine appeals to women due to the content and objective of making women feel better about their bodies by giving diet and exercise routines and help. By featuring coverlines that appeal mainly to bettering your appearance like; 'Slimmer Next Week' and 'Stop belly bloat fast'. By featuring Kim Kardashian on the cover it suggests that reading this magazine will get you her body, by featuring her and the coverline 'I'll never be one of those skinny girls, so what?' goes against representations of women being skinny models as she is a curvy woman and speaks out about current stereotypes and is considered to be a 'typical' model due to her curves. The cover lines in yellow are typically about relationships or personal stories, or advice to the readers about their body whereas the writing in white is mainly showing routines or the cover girls name. The mast-head meets stereotypical feminine colours as it is a pink which works alongside other pink/purple writing but also Kim's purple bikini. Her eyes are engaging the audience by overlapping the masthead. 

 

 Nuts magazine is an infamous 'lads mag' and appeals to men due to the content of the magazine and the way the women on the covers are represented as sexual objects. In this instance the model is wearing lingerie, has blonde hair and has a skinny frame therefore fitting the stereotypical image of a model. All the models on the cover conform to this character of having an innocent face to contrast with what they're wearing, it also makes the men feel like they can dominate the girls. This magazine can appeal to women readers however the main audience would be men as they would be interested in the images but also interested in the male related subjects like cars and motor sports. The language is very aimed towards the type of male that buys the magazine, words like 'sexiest' and 'topless' clearly identify who the magazine is aimed at, the language and colours used are engaging to the audience as they are clearly visible and compliment the lingerie colour. The language is simplistic and does not take a person with a degree to read and understand it. The main models eyes are faced directly on the masthead in order to engage the audience.     

  
 Vogue magazine is one of the leading fashion magazines in the world, its main appeal to women is the subject of fashion and seeing designer brands and labels walked down catwalks. The model for this cover, being Lady Gaga is seen in a designer dress - striving away from her usual outlandish style, as expected from a infamous fashion magazine, the model has been photoshopped in order to be promoting that skinny is good and only models should wear designer clothes. Therefore, after being digitally enhanced she is now conforming to the stereotypical runway model by having a skinny waist and being tall. The illusion dress creates the image that although she is tall she still has curves, this being false as her body has been totally manipulated to be more like a tall, skinny model. The language again is subject specific as it features words like 'fall fashion' and 'designers' therefore creating who the target audience is - fashion savvy readers. By saying that the issue is a special edition makes the audience be more willing to buy it as it appears to be a collectors item, this also emphasised by the gold writing. The models head overlaps the masthead therefore having her eyes engaging the audience, the red ribbon again emphasises that there is a unique quality about this issue. 

Magazine Double Page Spread Draft

Coursework Album Covers

Front Cover 1 

 

 Back Cover 1 

                              

Front Cover 2 

 

  

Back Cover 2 

Album Cover Proposal

Front cover #1
 The original artwork will be a close up of a pair of glitter high heels with a high exposure filter, the background will be a white wall in order to emphasise the heels. The font I am choosing to use is 'Colours of Autumn' as I believe it reflects my artist the best - being crazy and outlandish. I will use low key lighting to imply that this photo was taken at a party. The theme of glitter is seen throughout the cover with the use of the shoes. 

Back Cover #1
 Again I will use the 'Colours of Autumn' font as again I believe it reflects my artist and portrays her as a party girl. The back cover will feature lines of glitter with a heart of glitter - this mirroring the song 'Cocaine Hearts' a rolled up dollar/pound note will be placed in shot in order to emphasise the drug. High key lighting will be used to bring out the plain white background and reflect off the multi-coloured glitter lines. For the typography I will use a fuchsia font as this stands out to the audience to read the song titles. Typical to albums the barcode and record label information will be placed in the bottom right to not distract the audience from the songs.

 Front Cover #2
 The second cover will feature the model in heart shape sunglasses and hold a sign that says 'Will Sing For Vodka', my artists name will be featured next to the artist but I will not be adding an album name as I believe it will distract attention from the sign.The door handle will be pictured in order to create the idea of a house party.

Back Cover #2
 The final background will be of the artist lying in a bath of balloons, the writing will be next to the artist and she will be wearing sunglasses to cover her eyes and to create a hungover impression. I will use the same font - 'Colours of Autumn' but in a cyan colour. I will use high exposure to bring out the colour of the bath tub but also the colour of the balloons and sunglasses. A bottle of alcohol will be seen in the shot to again emhasise the party theme. The colour red will be a strong colour in the artwork as it suggests love and lust. High key lighting will be used again to bring out the individual colours of the balloons and bath.

Album Cover

Front cover #1

 I chose to use images of Ke$ha as my artist as she is similar to the artist that I am trying to show in my final production. The cosmic background was used in order to showcase fun and a supernatural element to pop music, which is the genre I am going for - being pop and dance music. The colours for the font does not clash with the background and is clear to the audience who the album is by.

Back Cover #1

 Similarly for the back cover I used a cosmic background and showed the artist in the left hand side of the cover, although the colour of the stage costume is the same colour as the background it does not contrast and appear invisible. I am choosing to use the font in this cover as it reflects my artist as it appears to be a wild font with capital letters and sharp effect. As an improvement I would have to ensure that the cover is the right dimensions of the back cover but also include record label logos.

Front Cover #2

This was my first attempt at photoshop and I chose a simplistic white background and positioned my artist in the centre of the cover and the official logo placed next to her. In order to improve this cover I would use a background and make my photoshopping more defined to ensure that there are no background from the previous picture in the new cover.The picture that I used appeared squashed to the dimension, I would make sure that my photo is big enough to fit the cover.

Back Cover #2 

  I want my cover to feature a trashy like theme therefore the use of glitter fully identifies this, I want my model to have messy hair, the cover to feature a party type theme with bottles on the floor - emphasising that my artist is the party queen. I again used the font in the previous cover as it embodies the theme I am trying to show.

Album Cover Survey

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