1) How many of the 12 magazine cover key conventions feature on this edition of Reveal? List them with specific reference to the convention on the CSP edition of Reveal.
central image,title publication,star power,direct address,bar code,cover lines,colour scheme,price,name checks,target audience,slogan
2) What is the font choice used on the cover and what does this choice connote?
central image-the suspension of the phone call refines the cover line.
3) How do the cover lines appeal to the Reveal target audience?
it fits there category of the working class of gossip about celebrities.
4) What are the connotations of the Reveal colour scheme on this particular front cover?
The colour scheme is (yellow,pink,white,red ,green)all vibrant colours and the magazine is bursting with gossip
5) How are images used to create interest in the magazine? Find three reasons for your answer. (E.g. mise-en-scene such as props, costume and make-up, body position, facial expression).
The ice cream is used as an example of fast foods and links to the working class demographics seen as unhealthy,the picture of beyonce and her baby bump,the side view of the women at the central image.
6) What differences can you find between the use of design and typography between Tatler and Reveal? List at least three and explain the effect on audiences.
reveal is for the working class and talks about celebrity gossip where as tatler talks about high fashion and is more toward the higher class.
Representations
1) What type of celebrities appear on the front cover? How are they represented in Reveal? (Positive? Negative? Reinforcing or challenging stereotypes?)
celebrities such as beyonce,reality tv casts and ex performers. Some of the gossip are about their relationships and the bad stuff about it and some of the other gossip is about having a baby or something good.
2) How are women represented on the cover of Reveal? Think about both images and cover lines here.
The women are presented both negative and positive as they are fat shaming one of the women at the bottom as it says in quotations 'swapping cardio for carbs' and showing the picture of her eating an ice cream and the positive is when they put in quotations 'cheryl becomes a very posh mum'.one presented positively and the other negative.3) How do Reveal and Tatler represent social class? (E.g. middle/upper class and working class)
tatler represents their magazine as an upper class brand
4) What would be the preferred and oppositional readings to this cover of Reveal?
the preferred readers would be the working class and oppositional would be the upper class
Social and cultural context
1) What aspects of British life are reflected in Reveal? How does this compare to Tatler?
Uk reality tv cast members and celebrities.
2) What do the cover lines in Reveal suggest about the issues and lifestyle of Reveal readers?
That they talk about whats going on with celebrities life's.
3) Find three other front covers for Reveal. What issues or features regularly appear in Reveal?
star power ,direct address ,cover lines .
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