Magazine Cover Anaylysis

The Mail on Sunday Magazines

One of the two magazines included in the Mail on Sunday is Live magazine pictured here to the left.

I have chosen this particular cover of Angelina Jolie as she is presented in a particularly seductive manner, due to her being practically naked.

The way she is displayed also reminds me of a Greek Goddess as she made to look abnormally attractive and perfect with glowing skin etc as well as the cloth or robe being used to cover herself as opposed to any kind of modern clothing. Also her pose with the cloth bears a similarity to classical statues and architecture of women and goddesses such as this picture of a statue to the right here

This.particular photo has been deliberately chosen to encourage a younger audience, as younger males are attracted to Angelina in this image whilst younger females my idolize her in this image.

Again looking through the rest of the magazine it becomes obvious that Live is aimed at youths as there are many advertisements and articles about new gadgets such as cameras and phones.

However this also implies that the magazine is also aimed at the middle class as these gadgets are fairly expensive, and again it is unlikely anyone who is working class could afford them.

The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982, it is Britain's second biggest-selling Sunday newspaper after the News of the World. The newspaper typically discusses right wing views and appeals to an audience with strong political opinions. I would therefore assume its target audience are middle aged, middle class males and possibly female, due to the papers advanced writing and topics which are better understood by those who are more educated.

For example, a recent headline from the paper reads "Dear Gordon Brown, you killed our son': Family of soldier blown up in Afghanistan send devastating letter to PM". The article is taking a stab at the government, criticizing the death of a soldier as a fault of the Labour government. It does so due to the Mail having a Conservative party alignment which tends to be right wing, which in turn makes the paper appeal more to audiences supporting such political ideas.

There is also a possibility that the paper is aimed at middle class women as-well as an even more recent article details on the television program "strictly come dancing" which is obviously a program with a female based audience. To further back up my point that the Mail may be aimed at some women on the front page of the same issue is advertisement for a free makeup set.

In the same issue there is an advertisement which further indicates the class of the target audience. Pictured to the right, it is an BMW advertisement, and such a car displayed in the image could not possibly be afforded by anyone who is working class, therefor indicating that the papers audience come from a fairly wealthy background.

First blog, last year overview and stuff

After studying AS media for a year, I now have a more in depth understanding about the many codes, conventions, representations and stereotypes within todays media products.

I have since learnt from these factors and incorporated into my own film project such as making it appeal to certain audience, which was a younger male audience for my film.