What are the leading news stories of the day?
The Guardian-
The Golden Globe awards and images
Political story about Clegg dismisses diamond jubilee yacht idea
Cruise ship crash, 6 bodies found
The Daily Mail-
White hot night in hollywood, great night for Britian at the Golden Globe awards
Italian girl and father missing amongst the sixteen others in the cruise ship crash
Ricky Gervais is naughtier than ever
Which News Values do they adhere to?
The Guardian-
The Golden Globe awards and images
Predictability as its an anual awardd
Personality or Elite people invloves celebrities
Political story about Clegg dismisses diamond jubilee yacht idea
Correspondence as its as you expect
Personality or Elite poeple invloves a famous politician
Predictabilty as its a jubilee so upcoming event
Cruise ship crash, 6 bodies found
Negative as its a tradegy
Continuity as its ongoing tragedy
Amplitude as its becoming a big story with more and more being declared missing
Impact as its a tradegy that has affected many
The Daily Mail-
White hot night in hollywood, great night for Britian at the Golden Globe awards
Predictability as its an anual awardd
Personality or Elite people invloves celebrities
Closeness as it involves Britian
Italian girl and father missing amongst the sixteen others in the cruise ship crash
Negative as its a tradegy
Continuity as its ongoing tragedy
Amplitude as its becoming a big story with more and more being declared missing
Impact as its a tradegy that has affected many
Personality or Elite people as parents can relate to their child being missing
Ricky Gervais is naughtier than ever
Personality or Elite people as hes famous
Correspondent as it meets out expectations as there was a big event and the 'dirt is being dished'
How much space are some stories given in different newspapers?
The cruise ship story is given more space on the daily mail website than the guardian, the daily mail is a tabloid so it focuses on main stories and general inerest where as the guardian breifly mentions main news but focuses on political events.
The Golden Globe awards also had more space on the daily mail website than the guardian as the daily mail focuses on celebrity gossip and events moer than the poltical paper the guardian.
What do you notice about the news values applied by different newspapers?
The guardian uses:
Predictability
Personality or Elite people
Correspondence
Negative
Continuity
Amplitude
Impact
The daily mail uses:
Predictability
Personality or Elite people
Closeness
Negative
Continuity
Amplitude
Impact
Correspondent
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
Essay question
The Marie Claire magazine uses visual codes to establish the target audience. Ashley Olsen,who features on the magazine, the use of a celebrity appeals to any of their fans influencing them to buy the magazine. Ashley Olsen is dressed in a midnight blue dress, the midnight blue ties in with the title giving a sense of consistency, midnight blue also connotes passion which links with Ashley Olsen's feature "Ashley Olsen on style passion". Ashley Olsen is photographed 'smising' at the camera, this is both a seductive yet pretty pose. This draws in a potential audience of women who see Ashley as a role model or aspire to look like her. Her make up and the way her hair is done will appeal to stereotypes of women that only care about appearance, as using Ashley on the cover represents the whole magazine to be about beauty, make up, and fashion which are all categories women are stereotyped as being interested in.
The form of the text is a magazine which is clear from the conventional layout. A large maste head at the top along with smaller captions and features around the edges with a large photo as the main focus. The font used is quite a hard straight font that's stylish and professional linking with the genre of the magazine, the consistency throughout establishes the professionality and success of the magazine. The language used also establishes the genre and audience of the magazine. "Best beauty buys" the use of alliteration is a language device used to persuade the audience into buying the product. Beauty is a key word that engages women and ties in with the theme of the magazine.
The Woman's Health magazine uses visual codes to establish the audience. The main focus of the magazine is the picture on the front page. The skinny healthy woman is centred drawing in the audiences eye. The woman is sweeping her hair back which has made her top rise revealing her flat stomach. The aesthetically pleasing woman portrays herself as healthy and nutritious which can appeal to a female audience as a typical stereotype abouth woman is that they want to me healty and slim. The healthy woman links to the name of the magazine, and the whole purpose of the magazine to help and guide woman into being healty. The language used emphasises this, "quick recipes healty and tasty" these of the word quick appeals to many woman especially mums as they don't always have much time, healthy re in forces the theme of the magazine and tasty appeals to everyone's senses.
The magazine also has a conventional layout with a large heading, with blue font, the coloour blue is often stereotyped as a masculine colour which challenges the female audience of the magazine. However blue does signify peace, cleanliness and health all linking to the main purpose of the magazine.
The form of the text is a magazine which is clear from the conventional layout. A large maste head at the top along with smaller captions and features around the edges with a large photo as the main focus. The font used is quite a hard straight font that's stylish and professional linking with the genre of the magazine, the consistency throughout establishes the professionality and success of the magazine. The language used also establishes the genre and audience of the magazine. "Best beauty buys" the use of alliteration is a language device used to persuade the audience into buying the product. Beauty is a key word that engages women and ties in with the theme of the magazine.
The Woman's Health magazine uses visual codes to establish the audience. The main focus of the magazine is the picture on the front page. The skinny healthy woman is centred drawing in the audiences eye. The woman is sweeping her hair back which has made her top rise revealing her flat stomach. The aesthetically pleasing woman portrays herself as healthy and nutritious which can appeal to a female audience as a typical stereotype abouth woman is that they want to me healty and slim. The healthy woman links to the name of the magazine, and the whole purpose of the magazine to help and guide woman into being healty. The language used emphasises this, "quick recipes healty and tasty" these of the word quick appeals to many woman especially mums as they don't always have much time, healthy re in forces the theme of the magazine and tasty appeals to everyone's senses.
The magazine also has a conventional layout with a large heading, with blue font, the coloour blue is often stereotyped as a masculine colour which challenges the female audience of the magazine. However blue does signify peace, cleanliness and health all linking to the main purpose of the magazine.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Sitcoms
The bing bang theory
The male scientists are all represented as stereotypical nerds, they are are all extremely clever and the character sheldon has OCD and is a worrier. Raj is Indian and has a fear of talking to girls so his parents skyoe him trying to set him up with different relatives. Penny is the main female character and is stereotypically blonde and stupid, she flirts with the boys but also acts like a mother figure to them all.
Family guy
The Simpsons
The male scientists are all represented as stereotypical nerds, they are are all extremely clever and the character sheldon has OCD and is a worrier. Raj is Indian and has a fear of talking to girls so his parents skyoe him trying to set him up with different relatives. Penny is the main female character and is stereotypically blonde and stupid, she flirts with the boys but also acts like a mother figure to them all.
Family guy
The Simpsons
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