first blog post (magazines)

in this first lesson of media, it was an introduction to the course, so we got into groups, got 2 different magazines, and got told to identify the differences and the similarities between them, you will be surprised what you can find when you look closely, the 2 magazines that i got were similar anyway, one was a gossip and fashion magazine, the other was a fashion magazine, so as you would expect, there were a fair few similarities, there was the similarities that you would expect on a magazine, main story has a picture on the cover that takes up the whole page, picture on the cover is put over the title hiding it a bit, bright colours to catch peoples eye. If you want to stereotype classes you could say that the gossip magazine named "LOOK!" would be for people in the lower/working classes, while the fashion magazine (company) would be for middle to upper classes. these magazines are not really my type of magazine (as i am a boy) but i can say i would much rather read company magazine over LOOK!, simply because LOOK! seems to be a magazine that has journalists pretty much stalking them to get story so it is more gossip articles, while in company it is interviews with celebrities so you get a more sophisticated article.