Defining a Media Text

I chose a page out of the magazine called 'Now' and analysed it to examine what I think the target audience of the magazine is.

http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/531190/towie-s-lauren-goodger-i-was-pregnant-with-mark-wright-s-baby/1/

Now magazine typically caters for middle class women interested in the gossip and happenings of the media world today.

I could define and tell what the target audience is from most obviously the layout chosen. The layout is very upbeat and vibrant. Most importantly i could tell from the language used. The language used is Standard English with slight use of slang and abbreviations, none of the language used are very formal or difficult to understand in any way.

Also all the story's that are typically features in the magazine including the stories I have chosen to feature are stereotypically new found fame discovered by reality TV or one hit wonders. Not cherished stars that have been on the scene for 15/20 years, featured in Hollywood films and fashion wonders. A magazine like vogue wouldn't use the same celebrity's as their stories as now.

My First AS Media Lesson

In our first lesson of AS Media 3 fellow students and myself got together and began to compare and analyse two very different magazines. By comparing the woman's designer fashion magazine 'Instyle' with the high street gossip magazine 'Best' we soon discovered loads of similarities and differences between the two different publications. By studying the magazines I began to learn a wide range of vocabulary and device meanings. It was a great way to start my AS Media Course!

As part of the lesson I also learnt the difference between 'conventions and codes'. From my understanding conventions and codes are practically the same thing. For example the 'Code' is the differences the magazine shares and 'Conventions' is the similarities they share.