Thursday, 15 March 2012

Explore representation of issues in 'Breaking Bad' and 'Walking Dead'

There are many representations shown in Breaking Bad show to the audience these are cancer, drugs, murder, disability and race. Cancer is shown though out the series but is shown clearly with expressions in the scene when he finds out he has cancer in the hospital Walter blanks out so that everything is a blur and he cannot hear the doctor propaly because he is dealing with the shock. His expresion is blank as if he doesnt even care but it is because he cannot think straight. The connotations you read from his facial expresions that he is scared not just for himself but for how his family and friends are going to cope without him.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Elle and TopGear cover evaluation

In the ELLE magazine cover the model (Emma Watson) has airbrushed used on her this makes her image unachievable to other women. It uses a puff near the top of the page to catch the readers attention with the word free, the cover also uses graphics all over the page to have short summaries of the columns in the magazine. The masthead on the cover is bright and in massive font to make it stand out from all the other pieces of font, it is also in a bright red colour which makes it stand out as well. There is a strap line down the bottom of the cover just telling you another article inside the magazine. The mode of address of Emma Watson is that she is sure of her self (obviously she can be as she has 10 million in the bank) almost as if she is cocky but she does not want to look that way as it would make he disliked. The target audience for the magazine are women aged 16 to 25 of whom are middle class and mainly white with British heritage, other media that they consume would be things like Cosmopolitan magazine the TV show New Girl, they may also be Harry Potter fans as the model on the front of the cover is Emma Watson who is well known for being in all the Harry Potter films released.

In the Top Gear cover it uses a slogan to make you remember the magazine which is 'We've got them both!' this slogan is only for this particular magazine. It uses cover lines to show what the main articles in the magazine are going to be about. Layout plays a big role in this cover as it uses smany techniques to break up the writing so it does not look so formal such as arrows and different colour boxes for small bits of writing.