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Large and Bold Title/Masthead A very large central image Use of a Model Far fewer words on the front Cover Lines The price is on the front  Barcode on the front  Issue number  Frequency Slogan Date it was released  Composition (layout) Ideology - They're all different and trend setters and all very very rich All Costumes are different to demonstrate their different styles of music                                  

Androgonist - challenging female stereotypes  She feels trapped  Good Complection  Close up to show her lack of emotion Bold black lexis to emphasise the dullness of the cover and maybe the minds of youth todays however they have an impact on todays world? Targeting Middle Class audiences due to it looking too sophisticated for lower class but due to there being no high end brands being shown it would leave it to be for middle class The high key lighting signifies she is in the spotlight and therefore signifies    There are three main colours in this front cover, the pastel colours are atypical of the genre of rap Tyler is associated with, the pastel colours are also associated with his brand 'GOLF' which he appears to be wearing on the cover The scrunched up hoodie and red eyes symbolise him being high maybe and the culture he represents, also his social awkwardness and vunrability, therefore challenging the bravado of the mal...

A music video is just an advert for the song.  It promotes the song 2 Theorists needed for this Roland Barthe Claude Levi-Strausse The french music video - 1964, ver boring, plain narrative, no out Rebecca - Vanity Angel - Completely the opposite of ^ , so many outfit changes, so many backdrops, so many dancers and settings and colours it was overwhelming and impossible to advertise due to there being so many cuts and shots and things going on. The Pulp - Hardcore, it makes reference to 1940's crime film but the intertextuality references hardcore porn making it a binary opposite, however there is reference to porn as the first time you see the singer he is gagged and bound (intertextuality).   The weird dance song video Does not fir the genre of the song, fits more like a rap song however, its play on the models makes it for a creepy and sinister appearance.  Convergence - the coming together of two media industries, for example, MTV bringing music and...

Compare and contrast the ways in which viewpoints and ideologies are encoded in  Woman  and  Adbusters . In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting ways in which the viewpoints and ideologies are encoded in the stimuli 'Woman' and 'Adbusters'.  Woman Magazine's first issue was released in 1939 however, I will be talking about one of the issues published in 1964, Adbusters was started in 1989 and I will be studying the issue released in 2010.   Woman Magazine is a Capitalist magazine which was started purely for profit.  It is advertiser friendly also, an example of this is on one of the pages discussing kitchen refurbishment as the article even tells you where to buy the products used, therefore making it a consumerist magazine too.  This magazine conforms to hegemonic norms as best seen in its tame attitude towards topics compared to adbusters who (in this issue) are seen as promoting suicide.  The magazine is very stereoty...

Adbusters Ideologies an Beliefs  - Anti profit, anti-capitalist, anti- consumerist,  controversial,  modern (edgy), unique, Do not have a logo,  NO Adverts,  adopts a marxism attitude, anti- commodity fetishism, adbusters is complicated - it makes you question the effect of your existence and is totally the opposite of Woman magazine, no issue is the same, making it exclusive and deliberately confusing.  It is subversive, it changes its masthead.  It is also quite shocking and violent, it is polysemic. Woman Ideologies and Beliefs  - Capitalist, purely for profit, consumerist, advertiser friendly, conforms to hegemonic norms, tame, stereotypical, consumerist, sets expectations of what the reader should be, sexist (would not have been seen that way 1964).