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Contents analysis #2

Contents analysis

Double Page spread #2

Double page spread

Front Page analysis #2

College Front cover analysis #2

College front cover analysis

This is an analysis of my college newsletter

Front Page Analysis #1

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This is my college contents page mock up

Cohen's Moral Panic

Moral Panic is a condition, episode of a person, a group of people emerge as a threat to social values and interests, I.E. drugs, youths, and the MP's expenses scandal are all examples of a moral panic. The media creates "Folk Devils" these are groups if people that have been established as bad groups of people who are effecting the Moral Panic.

Moral Panic falls into to 5 categories

1. Concern - the behaviour of a group are represented as being a threat the requires our concern
2. Volatility - this is a short lived period. Panic erupts but is difficult to sustain. There are negative consequences for the rest of us
3. Hostility - "folk devils" constructed to create a division between 'them' and 'us'
4. Consensus - there is a widespread acceptance of threat posed by the group. This does not always reflect nation concern, but the campaigner will be very vocal whilst opposition will be weak and disorganised 
5. Disproportionality - there is a wild exaggeration of the evidence presented against the opposition - everything from the number of people involved to the scale of the problem is exaggerated to create a moral panic  

Collage Mock up front cover

I have choosen to do my collage front cover like this as my target audience will be the kids of the school, this is because the news is affecting them as its about them. The layout isnt a contempory design for a magazine as you have the titles going over the pictures and the pictures are slanted angle, which is more of a modern contempory style to keep up to date with the modern style of the school. The masthead of D.H.S is a good idea as its shortend the name of the school yet still keeps the recognistion of the name Deyes High School. The house style is the current school colours which keeps true to the school tradition. The front cover appeals to the parents as it is a modern contempory design, also it keeps the main srorys on the front cover this wants the parents to read the news storys.

Semiotic Theory

Semiotic theory was created by Sausser it is the theory of sign,signifer,signified. This means that their is a certain thing that makes you think of another thing which links to another thing for example, Rain,moody, Depression, Emo/death. Also this shows in a magazine darker colours link to a rock theme were as brighter clours link to a more pop magazine.

I have choosen to do my magazine for an alternative/indie magazine for my coursework this is because this is my favorite style of music and i find it easier to relate to as this is the most music i listen to. 

This is my first attempt at a mock up collage front cover for my magazine,

Feminism

As a perspective for looking at media texts, feminists would see most media output as being the product of a patriarchal or male dominated order, aimed at objectifying women as sex objects only cast for roles because of the way they look. Feminism was the response to society's assumptions that women should be subservient to men; until the emergence of feminism women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.
Laura Mulvey created a theory called the 'Male Gaze', this edition of the magazine Rolling Stone which shows Megan Fox in a revealing seductive pose. This leads to assumption that this will make men buy the magazines, just because of what is on the front cover.

Mulvey argues that people look at things in two different ways,

• Voyeurism- turning the represental figure into an object so that it becomes increasingly beautiful.
• Fetishism- Cult of the female movie star i.e Marlyn Monroe, celebrated for her looks but considered an object and often treated as one.