3. Starter
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What
is a lifestyle magazine?
Use FHM (Nov 2013) and Cosmopolitan (Nov 2013) as
examples.
Key terms:
Representation (Who? What? Why? How?)
Ideology (reinforcing or challenging hegemonic values?)
Prescribing a lifestyle?
Progressive or regressive?
4. +
Annotate an example using media language. Focus –
Audience and representation
Comment on image, language/mode of address, fonts, colour,
anchorage
6. +
Create a blog…in 5 mins!
Go to Blogger.com
If you have a Gmail, log in. If not, create one.
Name your blog with your own name and subject, eg Mike
Handley’s Media Blog.
Set the domain name as the same.
Choose a theme/style (you can change this later.
Start blogging!
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Let’s get blogging…
Using examples of double page spreads from lifestyle magazines,
explore how the text communicates meaning. Use the framework
from the previous task.
Search – “[magazine title] double page”
Blog your findings
Make a note of key points on the blog citing the publication and
date. Detail how the text uses both image and text to convey
meaning.
8. +
Plenary: Pre-production brief
You will produce TWO front pages for a new lifestyle magazine.
You will be expected to use original photography, appropriate modes
of address and themes relevant to the lifestyle
DST task – Continue to blog research and decide on a lifestyle for
your magazine for next lesson.