Magazine analysis and moodboard homework.

Fader Magazine

Use of bright colours as a symbolic code to show the mood of the artist on the front - Tyler the Creator

Large font - Little text suggesting simplicity.

Comma used between tyler and the creator to create suspense and give him a nickname - hermeneutic code to creat mystery surrounding what he has created.

Use of bright coloured hoodie with a rapper is a-typical due to stereotype of young black rappers being intimidating/violent whereas in this picture the teal coloured hoodie connotes kindness and innocence.

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Stereotypically attractive woman shown in a non conventional way using black lines to maybe suggest the changing of facial features would make her more stereotypically attractive which targets a young female audience as a lot of younger women tend to have body image issues. This then anchors them to buy the magazine because they believe there is a solution inside.

FDB - Student Magazine

use of bright coloured tracksuit goes against the common stereotype of young teens living in urban areas as the person in this picture is wearing brightly coloured clothes. In addition, all of these clothes are branded which shows that they have a lot of money or may have a lot of money which is uncommon for a student.

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Adbusters

Deliberately challenged the image. Its childish defacing. This defacing plays on the ideology that nothing is too high up to take down. Banksy Drawing of Policeman snorting cocaine. This is know as detournement. It is a form of high-jacking or re-routing. It is more commonly seen as Culture Jamming. Culture jamming is often obsessed with the idea of destructing consumerism/capitalism. Culture jamming - the practise of criticising and subverting advertising and consumerism in the mass media, by methods such as producing advertisements parodying those of global brands. Adbusters potential genres: Pop Culture - Sans serif font has informal connotations Satirical Comedy - Attacks something. Adbusters uses a lot of negative white space which connotes purity but directly contrasts with the image shown on the background. Masthead changes every time. Every magazine cover is unique which shows they are challenging. There is no reference to anything that is inside. No...

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Film Industry revision - 28th March 2019

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