Dhurata - Media blog 1 - exam - Mr Pall

1)   Magazines: Front cover practical task 2)  Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation 3) Magazines: GQ - Audience & Industry 4) Magazines: Front cover practical task LR 5) Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Language and Representations 6)  Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries 7)  Magazines: Industries - the appeal of print and independent magazines

  1) Writer's Edit journal article Read this excellent  Writer's Edit academic journal article on the independent magazine industry  and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of an independent print magazine? The independent print magazine is characterised as “published without the financial support of a large corporation or institution in which the makers control publication and distribution…“independent” in spirit due to a maverick editor or publisher who leads the magazine in an exploratory, noncommercial direction”  2) What does Hamilton (2013) suggest about independent magazines in the digital age? A small but growing body of evidence suggests that small printed magazines are quietly thriving even as the global newspaper and book industries falter 3) Why does the article suggest that independent magazines might be succeeding while global magazine publishers such as Bauer are struggling? Magazines produced by large companies like Bauer Media a...

  1) Media Magazine feature: Pleasures of The Gentlewoman Go to  our Media Magazine archive  and read the article on The Gentlewoman (MM84 - page 34). Answer the following questions: 1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women's magazines?  Its  minimalist covers are so completely  different that it’s actually shocking. The  only text is the title, subtitle and name  of the person in the photograph, which is taken as a portrait and framed like  a painting. It’s a bold statement that  says this is more than just a magazine,  this is art. In case it wasn’t different  enough, the masthead is in lower  case. Compared with Vogue, Elle or  Cosmopolitan, the gentlewoman has no  need to shout. 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   Most  of the non-advertising-related subjects  are creatives of some kind – artists,  musician...