Today in class we learn't about new terminology which we can use to deconstruct a music magazine, these will help us with what to add to our magazine.
Anchoring - the intended meaning of a media text; what a text shows or represents
Audience - the group for whom a media is intended
Bias - prejudice in favour of or against something
Broadsheet - a serious paper aimed at professional, upmarket people, previously in a large format but now mostly compact
Connotation - meaning which is suggested by a media text
Deconstruct - to take part/analyse
Denotation - describing what you see in a media text
Editorial - a newspaper article written by or on behalf of the editor which gives an opinion on a topical behalf
Genre - group of texts that share certain characteristics; classification
Masthead - the title of a newspaper or magazine at the top of the front page
Narrative - the way in which a story is told in both fictional and non-fictional media texts
Objective - not influenced by personal feelings
Representation - how the media shows us the 'real world'
Sensationalism - exciting or shocking reportage which is intended to interest the public, without necessarily being accurate
Strapline - a few word sentence to accompany a brand or product
Structure - in newspapers, the way an article is organised
Subjective - based on or influenced by personal feelings or opinions
Tabloid - a compact paper, designed to appeal to a mass audience
Text - any media product (eg. advert, photo, film, video game, web page...) or piece of writing
Values and ideologies - systems of beliefs which determine how power relations are organised within a society
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