Woman Magazine: Analysing Media Language
Media
Language front cover checklist:
Have you
explored how the front page uses the following media language devices?
· Layout/composition
of masthead, strapline, cover lines, images etc
· Masthead
· Cover lines
· Font
size, type, colour etc
· Images/photographs
(shot type, angle, focus)
· Mise-en-scene
· Language/anchorage
· Narrative
established
How does the combination of these different elements of
media language:
i)
Communicate messages and values?
ii)
Reflect the social/cultural context the
front cover was created in?
iii)
Establish the brand identity of the
magazine?
iv)
Construct and appeal to its target
audience?
Media
Language feature article checklist:
Have you
explored how the feature article uses the following media language
devices?
· Layout and design
· Positioning of headline, standfirst,
pull quotes/sidebars, columns, images
· Font size, type, colour etc
· Images/photographs (shot type, angle,
focus)
· Mise-en-scene- colour, lighting,
location, costume/dress as appropriate
· Anchorage of images and texts
· Language (headline, standfirst, copy,
captions)
· Mode of address (direct/indirect,
formal/informal)
· Specific devices e.g. emotive
language, rhetorical questions, hyperbole, use of fact/statistics
· Narrative established
- How does the combination of elements of media language communicate meanings?
- How does the article reflect typical codes and conventions for this type of magazine?
- How does the article appeal to the target audience?
- What messages and values are communicated in this article?
- How are representations constructed in the article?
Media
Language advert checklist:
Have you
explored how the adverts use the following media language devices?
· Layout and design
· Positioning of headline, standfirst,
pull quotes/sidebars, columns, images
· Font size, type, colour etc
· Images/photographs (shot type, angle,
focus)
· Mise-en-scene- colour, lighting,
location, costume/dress as appropriate
· Anchorage of images and texts
· Language (headline, standfirst, copy,
captions)
· Mode of address (direct/indirect,
formal/informal)
· Specific devices e.g. emotive
language, rhetorical questions, hyperbole, use of fact/statistics
· Narrative established