Student Magazine Contents Page Flat Plan

Front Cover Initial Idea

Photography Magazine Analysation

Vanity Fair Lady Gaga Magazine:

Lines and Angles:

Strong diagonal angle where her hair meets her arm. Then the same again where her leg meets the other side of her hair and they both finish one on top of each other making a meeting point. Short diagonal line with her other arm.

Rule Of Thirds:
Unconventional, there isn't a proper rule of thirds, this fits her as she's quite a original person.

Focal Point: Either her face in that strong pose or her leg which is diagonal through the middle of the page.

The title is straight at the top through the middle, left third rule applies to this as her name and main headlines are down that side, yet also a bit of right third as the theme of the magazine is on the right side.




Source The Game Magazine:

Lines and Angles:
Straight lines down his face until his neck, then it's diagonal of his shoulders down some of his arm.

Rule Of Thirds:
His chin, mouth and nose, it fits well into his face.

Focal Point:
The bottom of his chin and then the gun that's point at it are the things that you focus on first, then the rest of his face and his eyes tightly shut.

It has the title straight through the middle of the top of the magazine and then the left third rule fits here as all the main headlines are down the left side, leaving the smaller ones of the right.

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To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

The four magazine covers I analysed for a pre-task were all aimed at teenage/young adult girls. After comparing them all it really shows that from reading the type of magazines and articles within, it gives a perspective over what the ‘norm’ is for girls to look and act like. Social ramification is the bad effect of doing a certain thing, so when it comes to reading these teenage magazines this could be things like peer pressure or self consciousness. When it comes to teenage girls, there’s already a lot of stress and of peer pressure to have your hair in a certain cut, wear different types of make-up and wear the best clothes that fits in with your friendship group, from a young age, girls feel the need to fit into a certain stereotype of ‘pretty’ or ‘fashionable’ and they fear the confrontation that would likely come from looking or dressing differently than what’s supposedly expected from them. So when reading the magazines, it makes it that little bit harder. The articles are almost telling you what to wear, how to apply your make-up and which brand to get or how to get a boyfriend. One of the worst social ramifications that magazines represent is weight. The girls that fill the pages are always skinny and the stereotype of either pretty or sexy and it gives the idea that being skinny is the normal way and it gives a perception to girls who may be bigger that being slightly larger is a bad thing, and from this there’s a lot of problems with teenage girls and eating problems from anorexia to bulimia. But this is only because the magazines are almost shoving the way people should look and dress down their throats. The Hypodermic Needle theory comes into this as teenage girls will believe anything they read and will act or do things to their body to become this stereotype which isn't what they should be like, only what girls are expected to become from the lines in these articles.  There are problems now with girls as young as 12 and 13 that have been in hospital from eating disorders. It’s not only magazines that are responsible for these issues, magazines are only a part of this. A lot of media gives out hidden meanings of ‘the perfect girl’ especially shows on television, most of them involving stereotypes of ‘pretty’ girls, and things like ‘America’s Next Top Model’ giving a message that only super skinny, pretty and tall girls are the right fit to become a model. Also newspapers don’t help. When it comes to page 3 girls, this gives out more stereotypes a girl should fit into. The page 3 girls always have big breasts, which for all girls can make them feel self-conscious if they aren't only enough to produce them yet or if when they have aren't big enough, which leads to another social ramification of Plastic Surgery, millions of girls now go through surgery to get tucks and lifts to get better cheekbones, bums, stomachs and and boob jobs to go up a size because they don’t believe they’re a normal size because of stereotypes and perceptions of the normal thing. So the media is defiantly quite responsible for how children and young adults are becoming, girls are growing up now self conscious and have a lot of peer pressure to become something that’s not at all natural which when doing so, can take turns for the worst.