Media blog 1 - exam - Mr Pall

  Research 1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project.  Create a shortlist of  three  potential magazines and upload an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create. 442 Magazine  NME magazine Film magazine  2) Choose  one  of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then f ind  three  different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding. Planning 1) In your blogpost, write your  main cover line  (also called the 'main flash') - this is the m...

  1)  Advertising: Introduction to advertising 2)   Advertising: the representation of women in advertising 3)   Advertising: Gauntlett and masculinity 4)   Advertising: Score hair cream CSP 5)  Advertising: Introduction to Postcolonialism 6)  Advertising: Sephora Black Beauty is Beauty CSP

  1) What was Sephora trying to achieve with the campaign? gain back black customers after the racial issue involving sza 2) What scenes from the advert are highlighted as particularly significant in the articles? the ones showing which types of hair styles and inventions were created by black people to show their influnce on beauty 3) As well as YouTube, what TV channels and networks did the advert appear on? Hulu , HBO max , tiktok 4) Why does the Refinery29 article suggest the advert 'doesn't feel performative'?  no one feels left out. The film   has more inclusion in its under-a-minute runtime than two hour features have in their whole film. Rather than dipping a toe in “diversity,” 5) What is the 15 per cent pledge and why is it significant?  Sephora pledges at least 15% of their shelves for Black-owned brands  a promise to promote black owned brands to rebuild relationship 1) How does the advert use camerawork to communicate key messages about the brand? c...