magasines : reveal CSP case study

 1) How many of the 12 magazine cover key conventions feature on this edition of Reveal? List them with specific reference to the convention on the CSP edition of Reveal.

4: mashead , image , barcode , cover lines

2) What is the font choice used on the cover and what does this choice connote? Here's a blog to help you with this as we haven't been able to complete the Photoshop typography lesson yet due to Covid-19.

Pink . Pink is a colour that is known to relate with femine acts .

3) How do the cover lines appeal to the Reveal target audience?

They are all about love .

4) What are the connotations of the Reveal colour scheme on this particular front cover?

Feminenenity , love , nice .

5) How are images used to create interest in the magazine? Find three reasons for your answer. (E.g. mise-en-scene such as props, costume and make-up, body position, facial expression).

They are wearing fancy clothes and some make up to call out a fashion crowd . They are body positioned as if they are posing to look good . They have excited faces .

6) What differences can you find between the use of design and typography between Tatler and Reveal? List at least three and explain the effect on audiences.

In the typography of the tatler magasine it is very simple and plain whereas in the reveal one it is more colourful . 

The tatler only has one picture of one person but the reveal has over 5 pictures of different people .

The tatler magasine is based on one thing however the reveal one is based on many events .

1) What type of celebrities appear on the front cover? How are they represented in Reveal? (Positive? Negative? Reinforcing or challenging stereotypes?)

English celebrities appear in the font covers such as actors and musicians , they are represented as awkward off camera and almost two faced . They are trying to say they are challenging stereotypes .

2) How are women represented on the cover of Reveal? Think about both images and cover lines here.

They care about love and looks alot .

3) How do Reveal and Tatler represent social class? (E.g. middle/upper class and working class)

 Tatler is about higher class and show how they act and dress in the best ways possible although reveal shows different classes and how they act .

4) What would be the preferred and oppositional readings to this cover of Reveal?

Preffered reading would be that love is real and important and love is the main stage in someones life as it has articles about a long lasting relationship and pregnancys .Oppisitional reading is that love is boring and it's talked about to much .

1) What aspects of British life are reflected in Reveal? How does this compare to Tatler?

People trying to look good by dressing like a posh person and going on diets . This relates to tatler because it is about a posh person . 

2) What do the cover lines in Reveal suggest about the issues and lifestyle of Reveal readers?

That they have to go through hard love and they all try to look better .

3) Find three other front covers for Reveal. What issues or features regularly appear in Reveal? 

1. Love 2. transformations 3.wealth






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