Mr Nag
Media
Representation
N
Audiences
Genre
MR Nag=One piece of course
work
Nr Cup= More than one pieces
Genre
John Friskes describes genres as “attempts to structure some order
into the wider range of texts and meanings that circulate in our culture for
both the convenience
of both producers and consumers.” In other words, genre is simply a way of
categorizing products (texts) through the common codes and conventions.
John Friskes relates to my
work as I made it convenient to my audiences by following conventions so people
now what my product is so it’s convenient for them and this made it convenient
to me as I new what I had to do.
Andre Basin “genres
make magazine cover more efficient
(by allowing the re-using of fonts, images and the like) and more marketable
(by using generic conventions as a way of ‘selling’ the magazine cover to the target
audience). Genres in magazine covers therefore, were seen as more arbitrary:
they originate at the level of production” (Hall and Holmes, 2008).
I agree with Basin’s theory as
I made my magazine cover quickly because I had common conventions to follow so
I replicated them in my work.
“Scientific method does
not require us to observe every instance of a phenomenon in order to describe
it; scientific method proceeds rather by deduction” (Tzetan Todorov, 1970).
I agree with Todorov’s theory as I don’t need to
look at every magazine to now what makes one because I only need to see a
couple and I then have another to judge if what I’m looking at ifs a music magazine.
Narrative
Bathes:
Linearity of cause and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma
resolution”
I agree
in some ways as my magazine does follow what Barthes says because my magazine
cover does make a bit of enigma as my main image you see the guy smiling and
makes the reader think what is he smiling at which makes you as a reader
question the image. However my image does not have linear as its not a group of
photos it is just one photo frozen in time.
Claude
Levi-Strauss his theory of binary opposition night/day, good/bad, light/dark, good/evil etc. He observed that these
oppositions tended to structure texts narratives.
I believe
Levi-Strauss theory as I used binary opposites as I used white on black to make
it stand out I also used pink which is a female color and then blue a male
color together to make some contrast between the two genders.
Tilley
(1991) ‘Action Codes’ are a short hand way of advancing a narrative. Action
codes are part of the ‘Continuity Editing System’ and are used to signal to the
audience that something is about to happen, helping the audience to predict
what is going to happen next. According to Tilley, for example, the packing of
a suitcase ‘signals’ confrontation, panic or escape in a Thriller.
This
relate to my magazine cover as my main image shows a guy in a pose and makes
you think what is the next stage and asks what is going to happen next after
this pose.
Representation
“All media texts are re-representations of reality…they may be
stereotypes or they may be complex representations but it is important to
remember that they have been constructed to appeal to a particular target
audience” (Hall and Holmes 1998).
This relate to my magazine as I choice the person I did for my main image
because he is the perfect age for my target audiences and he is the same age as
those people in the magazines target audiences and people like to look at
things that relate to them.
Youth: Stanley Hall wrote
Adolescence in 2 volumes in 1904.
He came up with the ‘Storm
& Stress Model’, which pretty much meant that
“ Adolescence is
inherently a time of storm & stress when ‘all’ young people go through some
degree of emotional and behavioural upheaval, before establishing a more stable
equilibrium at adulthood.
He thought that
1.
Common mood in teenagers was depressed
2.
Criminal activity would increase at the ages of 12 & 24
Heightened
sensation
I have not followed this as I have mad teenagers as fun and for this
reason I have challenge Hall as my images do not show teenagers as bad people
instead it shows them in a positive light.
In 1975, Laura Mulvey,
“As erotic objects of desire for the characters within the screen story,
and as erotic objects of desire for the spectator within the auditorium.”
I have gone against this as I have period women
as not being objects of sexual desire instead I have shown them as strong
character however you could say I portrayed men as objects of sexual desire as
I have used my main image of a male in to a pieces of attraction.
Audiences
“Any media text is created for a particular
audience and will usually appeal most to this particular target audience” (Hall
and Holmes, 1998).
This relates to my work as I have used text
which you can just see in pervious pop magazines however it may be a little
different however it is still the same when you get to the basics and this is
so my magazine gives what the public wants to receive/take from it. I also had
to make a photo of the artist which approved by the retail, artist and everyone
else effect by the image and if not the customer may not buy the magazine.
There is also the preferred read where every reads it how we want it to be read
however there is also the apposition reading where people don’t like it however
they are going to buy it to get something out of which was not intended.
Hypodermic needle theory the media turns us in
to what it we consume.
Use and Gratification theory Blumer and Kant’s
theory
Diversion (escape from
everyday problems)
· Personal relationships (using
the media for emotional and other interactions e.g. substitution soap opera for
family life).
· Personal identity
(constructing their own identity from characters in media texts, and learning
behavior and values – useful if trying to fit into a new country/culture)
· Surveillance (information
gathering e.g. news, educational programming, weather reports, financial news,
holiday bargains etc).
