A level media 1 Obaida Mr Pall

  Read the Media Magazine article on collective identity:   Self-image and the Media   (MM41 - page 6). Our   Media Magazine archive is here . Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' We all have complicated beliefs about who we are; there are differences amongst the people we want to be, the people we think we are, and the people we want other people to see us as. Our identity would have been shaped by externally manufactured components of our lives, such as gender, class, and religion, as well as the roles that were predestined and part of the accident of the family we were born into. Our self-perception is influenced by dominant values, and during the late 1960s and early 1970s, individualism was starting to gain traction.  The notion that an identity might be formulated in terms of an externalised image emerged during the early 20th century post-industrial consumer boo

  Research 1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project.  Create a shortlist of  three  potential magazines and embed an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create. I am looking to recreate this poster by FOREVER SPORTS on boxer , Floyd Mayweather. 2) Choose  one  of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then f ind  three  different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding. The writing style is in sans serif and is done so to display modern themes. The cover lines are written in the bottom left