Magazine Survey

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Magazine Survey

Film Posters - Ice Age 3

Rule of Thirds - mouth, main characters, mouth
Long Shot - shows setting of jungle and main characters
Editing - special effects - 3D effect on historic creatures
Low and High Key lighting - where are they, whose teeth are they?
Mise-En-Scene - Setting - jungle, setting is a long shot as it give you idea of where they are, wide open spaces. Costume and Make Up - no costumes, no make up because they're animals apart from female squirrel (bottom right) who has blue eye shadow on. Female mammoth has thicker eyelashes too to show that she is female. Figure expression and Movement - emotions looked shocked, scared, what are they looking at: enigma code. Squirrel dangling - Scared, holding on for life.

Representation - Ice Age, historic event, dinosaurs.

Audience - lower class, working class, 0-13 and parents, maybe teenagers. Socio-Economic - E, parents - C2, D.

Uses and Gratifications - Information about historic event, Entertainment, funny scenes, potty humour. Personal Identity for parents as they go on a journey until they have their child.

Film Posters - The Amazing Spiderman

Close Up - shows expression (eyes in particular) - whats happening?
High Angle Shot - we are in charge, we are higher , so we are superior
Editing - special effects used to create city in eyes, spider web, cuts, and city behind spiderman
Low-Key Lighting - Dark, mysterious, whats happened?
Mise-En-Scene - Setting - Light behind him, above cityscape. Costume and Make Up - superhero costume, dark red and blue, costume is cut, what happened to him? how did he get the cuts? Lighting - Low-key. Figure Expression and movement - still pose, eye contact because mask is looking straight at us.

Representation - superhero, action genre.

Audience - lower middle class, working class, lower class. 15-30. Socio-Economic - C2, D, E

Magazine Covers - GLAMOUR

Masthead - Large, capital letters, original branding
Dateline - In bottom corner of magazine with website
Main Image - Single image, pop sensation - Idol to girls, makes full eye contact, stands out on a news stand
Cover Lines (puffs) - Different colours and sizes, varied around image, 4 colours, easy to read over main image
Main Cover Line - '131 little ways to your best body!' why not 130? - enigma code, takes up 1/5th of cover, first thing that captures eye after image

Codes and Conventions
date, no bar code or price
photo relating to featured article
recognizable masthead
puffs to make readers buy magazine

Audience
15-25
girls (female)
Socio-Economic - D, E - working/lower class

Representation
females - young
icons

Uses and Gratifications
Personal Identity
Information
Entertainment

Magazine Covers - VOGUE

Masthead - Very recognisable, distinctive- original branding
Dateline - June, no year, Underneath masthead
Main Image - Sarah Jessica Parker (single image), celebrity, idol, sex and the city star women aspire to be her, SJP makes full eye contact, viewed as classy, image will stand out on newspaper stand
Cover Line (puffs) - uses a lot of cover lines, distributed around main image, colour scheme - sometimes hard to read over image
No Real Main Cover line, could be two or 3 main cover lines such as 'lets talk about sex... Sarah Jessica Parker', 'How clean is your water' and what to wear everywhere'

Codes and Conventions
price, barcode, date
photograph relating to a featured article
recognisable masthead
various puffs to make reader buy magazine
thematic link between colours and type of magazine/type of magazine/type of year

Representation
classy
middle aged women

Audience
Middle aged
40-49
Socio-Economic- A, B, C1