Magazine Essays

Many magazine aims to seek the viewer’s attention and get them to buy their products. To sell a men’s magazine a company would have a girl with a nice body and dressed in hardly any clothing. Ché magazine is a well-known company that is known for the sexually habit for having girls in very few clothes to target young men. Ché magazine’s advertises women seen as a sexual object and the ability for men to fantasize for a “better world” for good-looking girls. The young lady in the advertisement is

Magazines today use several different elements to gain readers attentions, they use things such as color, body language, pathos,ethos, and logos. Pathos deals with appealing to the reader's emotions, Logos means persuading by the use of reasoning, and ethos means convincing by the character of the author. The Rolling Stone cover manipulate pathos and ethos through the use of color, body language, and text to convince potential readers that Beyoncé is a “shy” and “hot” women. Also ethos is used to

The magazine I found the Oscar Mayer bacon advertisement in, is the Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Better Homes and Gardens, is a magazine about homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The people who read this type of magazine are mostly women who do a lot of work around the house, women who cook, and women who like to redecorate and entertain. This target audience is perfect for Oscar Mayer. Women who do a lot of work around the house, usually do the

inspired this question. Are magazine advertisements sending unhealthy signals to our young women? All over the world young women and teenage girls are reading magazines. These magazines display pictures of women that send unhealthy signals to our society and especially our children. Images that are airbrushed and photo shopped lead young women to believe that this type of beauty is attainable. The truth is when attempted it comes with serious side effects sometimes death. Magazines today are all about visual

The media text that I found is that of a magazine cover for the Cosmopolitan magazine. The magazine is of February 2016 which features Julianne Hough on the cover of the magazine. I found this cover on the Cosmopolitan website. I picked this text because the covers of the Cosmopolitan is a great example of how the representation of femininity means to our society today. In the cover there are concepts and ideas that represent the idea of what femininity should look like in our society today. While

of society, it is often heavily criticized, especially when used in fashion. Fashion advertisements are everywhere you look, and when executed correct, the impact it has can be significant. The purpose of this study is to analyze advertising in magazines from a different perspective. Typically, when fashion advertising is researched, it is mostly related to body image and eating disorders. We unconsciously view advertising and rarely look to see if there are underlying messages in the images. Essentially

in the household structure. Popular “women’s” magazines (Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Maxim) and other mass media have depicted women in traditional sex roles such as slim, attractive, and flawless models or as a homemaker who cooks for the household and who’s entire life revolves around children and the family. Showing the traditional role in such a way as magazines do has caused a narrow and one tracked mindset for the

Popular magazines often include articles about mental illnesses. These tend to include a featured story about a person who suffered from a certain disorder and sometimes symptoms. The articles are usually based on one specific case, but they frequently make the mistake of generalizing the symptoms of one person to the public. This can lead to readers receiving wrong information and being ignorant about a condition. They may also diagnose themselves, basing their knowledge on a magazine and forgetting

National Geographic, with its iconic yellow-lined cover, is perhaps one of the most well-known magazines in the world. Although many may find the magazine recognizable, National Geographic has a target audience in mind when designing every aspect of the magazine. A careful observation of the October 2015 issue of National Geographic reveals a snapshot of the audience that the magazine intends to reach: wealthy, older, well-educated liberals. The wealth of the Nat Geo audience is clear from the moment

National Geographic, with its iconic yellow-lined cover, is perhaps one of the most well-known magazines in the world. Although many may find the magazine recognizable, National Geographic has a target audience in mind when designing every aspect of the magazine. A careful observation of the October 2015 issue of National Geographic reveals a snapshot of the audience that the magazine intends to reach: wealthy, older, well-educated liberals. Nat Geo shows the wealth of its audience from the moment

only ones allowed in her magazine. Penetrating the layer of idealogical products and corresponding advertisements is nearly impossible. Products directed to women are things like makeup and hair products, once again connecting consumption to the identity of women as someone who has to be “done up”. Through her journey to disrupt typical advertising she learned that liqueurs are a top offender for advertising to only men. Apparently men were thought to make the brand decisions. Instilling the identity

The editor of UK Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, gave an interview this weekend and revealed very candidly how people who create fashion magazines like Vogue think. In an interview on BBC Radio 2, Shulman — who has been editor of UK Vogue since 1992 — spoke about what makes for a successful magazine cover. Here she is quoted by the UK’s Telegraph: “If I knew exactly what sold it would be like having the secret of the universe, but I’d say broadly speaking, if you’re going to talk about a model or a personality

The magazine that I am analysing and studding is Vogue. This magazine has a target audience of a more mature age of around 40. Even though the magazine has an 87% female audience on the print cope of Vogue and a 13% male audience. However on their online equivalent Vogue has a 35% male audience and a 65% female audience. This is because the fasion industry portrays female stereotypes and males feel pressured to read “manly” magazines. However online they have the access to the magazine privately

Ever wonder why magazines covers and television advertisements uses lines such as “The secret to great hair and perfect skin” or “The answers to your most embarrassing beauty questions” when it comes to beauty or advertisement? On one hand, one might said that these lines are structured to grab the consumer or the reader’s attention, and on the other hand, one could argue that they are strategies that advertisers use to give hints about the functions of their products. Indeed, these are the two

The stereotypes of teenage girls through Magazines Media is a part of our everyday lives we tend to scan it, see it, watch it and absorb it into our minds constantly. The majorities of teenage girls across the world are influenced by what the media say 's and publishes. In today’s world, magazines key target is advertising secure products. Teenage magazines are associated with tactical fashion and beauty tips that include many images of beautiful girls to persuade teenage girls to purchase the

Genre and Attended Audience: I choose an infographic that would be featured as an online magazine ad. I chose an online magazine ad as my genre because that’s how marketers and advertisers get their information out to their audience. The infographic is about how femvertising impacts sales and my target audience would be marketers and advertisers. The job of marketers and advertisers is to sell a product or a specific brand to consumers and make the company money. My infographic will show the marketers

According to Forbes magazine, the way a woman is judged is based on how she looks and what she wears, while for men it’s all about his success in his field or the respect he gets from others. Women are put under constant scrutiny for not only their body but for their face and personality and any blemish or scar results in degrading women, which should not be done for natural occurrences. Men, on the other hand, are free to do whatever they want and though people say magazines glorify the muscular

We had designed advertisement which was girly, trendy and fun and was printed in a number of latest fashion magazines to attract more

The parent company Arcadia Group Ltd holds a portfolio of brands – Wallis, Miss Selfridge, Topshop, Topman, Burton Menswear London, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Outfit. TOPSHOP was first introduced in 1964 and then became a standalone store in 1994 (TOPSHOP, Official site). Over the course of almost five decades, it has opened up almost 472 retail outlets across the globe. Topshop is a high-street fashion brand that is very popular amongst the youngest generation. It caters to women between 14-30

According to Oxford Dictionary, a magazine is a "a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership" (Oxford Dictionary 1). In addition, another definition for a magazine according to Merriam Webster is a “type of thin book with a paper cover that contains stories, essays, pictures, etc., and this is usually published every week or month (Merriam-Webster 1). As magazines were a famous type of medium, “they were a favorite