Media GCSE magazines

a technique used to persuade the audience to interpret a media product in a particular way

an established rule or shared understanding used in the creation of media products. conventions are more likely to be taken for granted as ‘the was we do things’ rather than formally written

a statement of a newspaper’s position on a topic often written by the editor (the thoughts and opinions of the editor)

1. ok

2. congrats x

• succeeders

• aristocratic

• educated

1. play on words - ‘love in the time of cholera’ book (offers playful and fun entertainment)

2. upper class will get cerebral pleasure

3. connotations of tradition (personal identity

4. positions the audience as part of a community

5. serif font - traditional, tall, slim, sophisticated

• brexiteers right wing

• knowing wealthy people

• implying there is a hierarchy

• stereotype of upper class - snobby

• binary opposition - positioning the audience to be selective and judgemental

• big dress that goes from width to width and fills the frame - highlights the importance of glamour and fashion to aristocrats

• stance is not dainty but is masculine

1. slightly covered - well known brand

2. tatler - a posh way of saying gossip (appeals to upper class audience)

3. synonymous with fashion and high society

• strugglers that have a live for the day kind of attitude and don’t think about the future