Feminisim Theory

As a perspective for looking at media texts, feminists would see most media output as being the product of a patriarchal or male dominated order, aimed at objectifying women as sex objects only cast for roles because of the way they look. Feminism was the response to society's assumptions that women should be subservient to men; until the emergence of feminism women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.
Laura Mulvey created a theory called the 'Male Gaze', this edition of the magazine Rolling Stone which shows Megan Fox in a revealing seductive pose. This leads to assumption that this will make men buy the magazines, just because of what is on the front cover.

Mulvey argues that people look at things in two different ways,

• Voyeurism- turning the represental figure into an object so that it becomes increasingly beautiful.
• Fetishism- Cult of the female movie star i.e Marlyn Monroe, celebrated for her looks but considered an object and often treated as one.

Questionaire

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What type of research?

We looked at Quantative and Qualative research I have choosen to choose to use Quantative research I have Choosen to do this because it allows a more broad type of research and will allow more people to be able to qive a more direct answer which allows my research to be easier to collate.

What Have we got to do ?

For our Media coursework we have been asked to create a front cover for a music magazine, a contents page and a double page spread of a choosen artist. To do this i will research different music magazines and different generes of music to see how they differ i will be doing this by creating a questionaire of quantative research to find out about this. We have also been asked to do a front page and a contents page for a colllege magazine aswell.
To do this we will analyse 2 music magazine front covers, 2 contents page and 2 double page spreads, this will give me a good understanding on what to make my magazine too look like and who to set it out.
For my college magazine i will analyse a college magazine and a double page spread this will help give me ideas on how to  prduce the best magazine.
Also during the rest of my coursework i will be producing:-

Mood board
Production schedule
Venue release form
Risk assesements
Front page mock up
Contents mock up
Double page mock up
Photoshop practises
Mock shots
All of these will show my progress through the different stages of my coursework