Monday, 30 December 2013

Representation of sex in the media for mock exam

Positive representation of women:
The film 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' has a female lead, Jennifer Lawrence who in herself is a role model and is a positive person in the media. This films has broken records in America. This made Jennifer Lawrence  an Oscar award winner, 'Golden Globe nominee. She took home the Academy Award for best actress in February 2013.'- http://www.biography.com/people/jennifer-lawrence-20939797



Negative representation of women:
Ke$ha has recently released  a new video for her song 'Dirty Love'. In this video she plays a stripper, and she Daily Mail stated 'Ke$ha leaves little to the imagination as she appears in a red spotlight wearing black fishnets and garters, and a flimsy white T-shirt that she rips off to reveal a black bra and panties.' She is doing this to appeal to a wider audience because the video is mainly for the msle viewers because the song has no reference to being a stripper just that she wants to have sex not a relationship. By parading around in barely any clothes is just to get the men interested.
This is the link to where I got my information from:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2532211/Ke-ha-strips-mesh-G-string-grungy-dance-new-Dirty-Love-video.html
Get ready: Ke$ha is about to begin her striptease during which she peels off her grunge clothing one piece at a time

This is the video:


Positive representation of men:



Negative representation of men:
Julian Morris has sexualised himself for 'Wonderland Magazine' where is has nothing but a towel to hide his modesty. This is mainly for the women that will find him attractive and get pleasure out off seeing something like this.
This is the link to one of the pictures on the Wonderland Magazine website:
 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2013/09/sneak-preview-julian-morris-bares-all/

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Representation of women- Cagney and Lacey (taxi cab murders)

The women in this show are shown as strong independent women who can handle themselves. They had a job that would mainly be seen as a man's job in those times, they were police officers. This breaks the trend of the women needing protection from the big bad world because they are going out there to protect others. They don't wear girly outfits they are mainly dressed like a man, a tom boy. Later on in the show the audience is shown that one of the women is a mother and a wife, the husband is having an argument about her job and she sticks up for herself, this is different to many other shows of its time because men were seen as the dominant one in a household. They are intelligent because they are solving the case themselves.

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Double page spread idea


This is my second ideas for my double page spread. The first one i completed look unprofessional when I looked back on it, so I went for this. My inspiration came from Empire magazine November 2004 edition, page 87.