Sheldon Media A level exam blog - Mr Bush

 Close-textual analysis Work through the following tasks to complete your close-textual analysis of the Gentlewoman CSP pages: Gentlewoman front cover  1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? magazine is targeted towards those that are involved in celebrity culture 2) How does the cover subvert conventional magazine cover design? It has a boarder in which the main image is located, it has  very few  cover lines except for the name of the main image  3) Write an analysis of the central image. She has a bold and bright red lip  She is also wearing bold purple glossy eye-shadow, a clashing colour against the red lip as well as a blocky dark brow. Everything about her makeup  not what most people would seem attractive from a base societal perspective  4) What representations of gender and celebrity can be found on this front cover? The main image on the front cover is a female celebrity, is an upper class  female ...

 1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). Q1 some analysis of genre  but more needed on connotation and ideology Q2 some reference  to theory  but not enough  but not  enough. Q3 good balanced response  but more context needed  Q6 fairly basic - lot more changes to consider. 2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify ONE point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory:   • the advertisement’s intertextual use of the visual codes and iconography associated with genres of order, eg spy thriller, action and sub-genres. • such advertisements have commonly used codes and conventions and responses may focus on this...