Blog Entry: 9162020

Copy and paste this into your blog and then respond to the questions. You may bullet point the response where the exercise begins. 

Copy and paste the magazine cover that you use to answer the questions. 

Exercise: Look at a magazine cover. What can you tell about the type of magazine it is; what kinds of articles it contains; who is likely to read it? Why?

This exercise is likely to elicit responses which focus on:

• The visual elements, such as figure, costume, colour, pose, typography. Layout

• Linguistic elements – the title, lexicon, use of ‘teasers’

• Lifestyle – what kind of lifestyle is ‘on offer’? How is it offered?

• Representation – how are people and places constructed and presented through these technical elements?

• Mode of address – how is a particular audience being addressed by these elements? How is a potential reader encouraged to see her/himself as the addressee?

• Rhetoric – what is the potential reader being persuaded to buy/accept? How?

Relevant theory: Semiotics – Roland Barthes’ ideas about signs, codes and meaning Ideology and hegemony – ways in which desire, happiness and satisfaction are inextricably entwined with material consumption

the type of articles are going to be about the 2 best wide receivers on their team and how good they will do and the predictions on how they will do in the 2019 season.

• both of these players are wearing their orange and brown jerseys for the cleveland browns team they play for.

• they are the 2 franchise wide receivers. showing how good the Browns are.

• they are both football players traveling the country.

• the people are represented as how good there team will be because they have these amazing players.

• the audience is going to be primarily for browns fans and they are being addressed by the writer informing them on how good there team will do this year.

• the person buying it is going to be persuaded to buy it because it is going to inform people on how there team will do and how good there team is.

https://sicovers.com/featured/the-browns-are-back-2019-nfl-season-preview-august-26-2019-sports-illustrated-cover.html?product=art-print