GgR..Analysing Mag!

- Front cover appears to be extremely appealing. Use of bright colour, eye catching. Colours like, yellow, red and blue all have summer connotations. The magazine is the May issue of 2004.

-The shot the picture is taken in is level to the reader. This shows that the reader is not at all domination us.

-The model for the magazine - Jessica Simpson- a well known and an idolised celebrity internationally. Shown to be pure as she is wearing white. Aslo at the time, white was the in colour to wear in the summer.

-Seen to be very tall and slim, with natural blonde hair. This shows that she is an attraction and is conforming to the male gaze.

-Smiling confidently, suggests that she is in control with her looks and her body.

-Top is showing clevage and breasts are emphisised with this features. Suggests that she is aware that she is an object of 'to-be-looked-at-ness'.

-She's also wearing a short skirt. Revealing flesh. Potrays the type of person she is. And also the fact that she again is confident. Skirt is yellow, representing fresh and summer.

-Jessica seems to be looking at the reader, inviting them to come and read the magazone. Engaging with the readers.

-"The magazine is called cosmopolitan and was a magazine that recognised the changes made by females in the 1960's."

-The magazine is about womens lifestyle.

-Jessica Simpsons pose shows confidence and her long hair aspires the reader. The fact that her figure is shown to be sexy, forces ideas into the readers head that they can look like this if they buy the magazine.

-Represented as a sexual object. However the fact that she is wearing white suggests that she is innocent.

-Potential readers of this magazine would prefably be women. This is suggested because of the role model on the front page. However, the secondry audience would maybe be men as this magazine cover contains elements of conforming to a mans sexual desire.

-Ideally women between the ages of 18 - 40, who are attractive and take care of how they look. Also someone who has a career or is working.

-The magazines ideology is that sex with your partner should be enojable.

-Also how sex feels like from a man point of view.

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The Daily Mirror: [Friday 12th January 2007]

The 12th Jan 07 issue of the Daily Mirror tabloid is at first glance sectioned into two seperated halves of a page.the top half contains infomation on a free gift which features with the magazine, however the consumer has to collect this from the supermarket Sommerfield. The gift being offered is a "free DVD" on dolphins. By doing this the Daily Mirror advertising Sommerfield. The san serif font implies that thismaybe unimportant and irrelevent. Also the advert may well have a catch to it and the offer is not "free" like it states. This reflects on the type of the newspaper, Daily Mirror being a tabloid, tabloid do not contain relevent infomation, instead most of thier articles are focused on celebrities and gossip. The fact that the newspaper is offering a free poster and stickers, may suggest that they are aiming to a younger, working class and slightly uneducatd audience and also immature.

The article below this is about David Beckham and his offer from a big football club in the U.S. This is named "Po$h and Buck$" in bold clean sarif, huge, bold writting. The 'S' in the splash is replaced with doller signs instead reinforncing the amount of money David Beckham will be earning by the time he has signed the contract. Also as the team is an American team, and dollers is American, this a play on the way the editors have decided upon this. Also instead of writting "Posh and Becks" they decided to write "Posh and Bucks" implying that he is the breadwinna in this family and is bringing in al the money. Likewise the word or phrase "bucks" is written coloured in like the American flag, which suggests unitism.

The story is labelled "EXCULSIVE" in red sarif font, suggesting that the Daily Mirror is the first and exclusive indeviduals to have thier hands on this story. The sarif font suggests a 'no-frills' look and the editor maybe implying that whatever is in this newspaper or article is completely true. However as media literates and constant readers, we can argue that their newspaper contradicts this. Also as readers we tend to read the newspaper for entertainment and gossip. So therefore they are aiming to a particular type of audience.

Towards the bottom left of the newspaper, we see a large close up of the celebrity David Beckham. Grimley he is smilling, we can see that he is chuffed with his offer and no doubt will be moving to the U.S to take it on. We can slightly see that David Becham is wearing a white shirt, suggestin purity and goodness. The fact that he is in level with us, shows that he is not indominating us and neither are we inferior to him. His eyes seeem to be looking stright toward to camera which suggests that he is looking at the reader. This shows the confidence in the picture and also this appeals to those who admire him.

Finally, the black background of this splash suggests a hidden agenda. Black is a dark colour connoting secrecy and covering up.