- Music magazines

 26.5.21

• Analyse the media language of MOJO and the BBC magazine. 
• Make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language is used differently to fit different kinds of music. (15)

In this mojo magazine you can already tell by looking at the front cover it is a heavy metal/ rock music magazine. It is a dramatic, vibrant cover involving sans serif font to show its seriousness towards the artist and for it's design of the magazine. The cover involves pure, strong colours of red, white and blue with a filled up cover including a CD, many cover lines with it's large recognisable masthead of the word Mojo. The artist (the Cure) is shown in this cover very dramatically, with him wearing thick black eyeliner, strong red lipstick and well as a very white/pale face blending in with the background. This artist is known for creating his rock music and has been around for quite some time making the target audience middle-aged to older people who are into rock. It portrays a powerful, serious tone showing the type of music it is displaying. 

In contrast to this, the BBC music magazine is seen very minimalistic and calm compared to the Mojo magazine. It is a classical magazine involving small pieces about information all in serif font showing it's more formal and informational compared to the Mojo magazine. There is not a lot going on in this BBC music magazine so you get the sense it is aimed at the older audiences who are more into reading and educating. The puff and skyline come of very formal tell the reader what’s inside instead of appealing to its audience by entertaining it. The magazine is more modern and sophisticated reinforcing the sense that the magazine is classical, calm music. 

Therefore, I conclude that this shows the Mojo magazine gives more a sense of 'wild' music involving lots of information and facts to entertain their audience. Whereas, the BBC is more of a practical plain sense giving the readers knowledge of what's include in the magazine. Showing that in these magazines they give very different ideas, values and beliefs included in the magazines. 

- SOCIAL & CULTURAL CONTEXTS in THE OBSERVER 1960s

 24.5.21

How women are seen:

- 'objects' due to them only being seen in the corner advertising sexual objects and lingerie 

- the Queen is shown going to Mourning valley 

- another lady just shown in the corner of the paper making her seen like she is only represented on the paper for her body

- lastly a Woman is 'displayed' with a man having his arm around his shoulders seen as his partner

Representation of ethnicity:

-there is a lack of black people shown in the Observer newspaper

- there is black woman represented with a man showing that they are together and the white can be seen (together) with the black

Overall there is a strong lacking of black people shown in these covers. Majority of these papers involves white people and their stories. 

Social conditions:

-the first paper involves 'lawyers urging divorce by consent'

- the second paper involves not much on social connections/conditions showing they would rather present other things then couples together or divorced

-the last paper involves a photo including two people 'together' but nothing else involving people relationship statuses.