Follow the below steps to collectively totally analyse the set magazines
1) Find your question below
U block - Explore how the set editions of Woman and Adbusters reflect the historical context of the time they were made in
Q block - Stuart Hall argues that not only do representations reflect the ideology of the producer, they also reflect the historical context in which they were made. Analyse this theory with explicit reference to the set editions of Woman and Adbusters
S block - Steve Neale argues that genre is fluid, and evolves over time. Explore this idea with reference to the set editions of Woman and Adbusters
2) Pick one page from the set editions of Woman and Adbusters. They can be found here. But hopefully you knew that.
3) Save these two pages
4) Open a PowerPoint presentation.
5) Insert the Woman page on one slide, and the Adbusters page on another. Make it fill about 20% of the page. So pretty small.
6) Use the 'shapes' tool to label the image under the following headings, making sure to relate EVERYTHING to the question you were set!
- Genre codes and conventions – changes over time?
- Layout and design
- Composition - positioning of masthead/headlines, cover lines, images, columns
- Font size, type, colour
- Images/photographs - shot type, angle, focus
- Mise-en-scene – colour, lighting, location, costume/dress, hair/make-up
- Graphics, logos
- Language – headline, sub-headings, captions – mode of address
- Copy
- Anchorage of images and text
- Elements of narrative (Todorov)
7) After you've totally finished, screencap both slides and email them to your teacher as an attachment. Do NOT email the PowerPoint file. Just two .jpegs.