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 vogue issue- analyse the key changes in society in the 1960s  gender- Feminism began to become a more influentual idelogy as more jobs became avaliable to young women in the sixties. This allowed women to move away from home, work and become more independent. During the 60s, the contraceptive pill also became legalised (1967) and gave them the opportunity to focus away from motherhood and marriage is what men believed women were desitined to provide. At the end of the 60s, women began to fight for equal pay against their male workers as originallly they was getting far less than what men was getting. An example of this is in 1968 at the Ford factory in Dagenham. This is where over 850 women went on strike in order to try and gain equal pay, and In 1970, 2 years later, the equal pay act of 1970 emerged. This also resulted in women becoming more independent and involved in politics. music: In 1960's, one of the biggest changing aspects was music. In 1950s, rock and roll be...

attitude magazine text                                                                                                                                                                        Attitude is the best-selling gay magazine in europe. It is a lifestyle magazine, aimed towards those in the LGBTQ+ community. Aswell as being a print magazine, another popular way the audience can read attitude is by their online website. The website is laid out in a way which is acsessable and easy to read. Attitude as a whole covers many different subjects which are becoming spoken abou...

zoella content                                                                                                                                                                      Zoella, also known as Zoe Sugg, is a blogger, youtuber and influencer most known for her fashion,beauty and lifestyle content which first started as a blog and later expanded into a youtube channel in 2009. Her content on her youtube channel, is mostly fashion and beauty hauls and occasional 'favourite' hauls where she shows her favourite products of the previous month. She also has a second channel, ca...

the bridge genre conventions                                                                                                                                                             In the Bridge, there was many different codes and conventions which made the audience aware it was a typical crime drama. For example, the use of iconography. There was things such as police uniform, guns, police cars, laptops, evidence bags, handcuffs and many more which automatically stand out to the audience that some form of crime is happening or will take place. The settings aswell are very conventional, for example, ...

life on mars genre From watching the first episode of Life of Mars, we can automatically tell that this show is a crime drama. This is due to the many different codes and conventions shown. For example, the use of iconography such as the notepad, guns, trenchcoat, coffee and many more are very stereotypical of a crime drama tv show. There are other elements which also tell us this is a 1970s crime drama. For example, the car-chases, autopsies, foot chases all happen in an urban backdrop which is conventional for a tv show like this. However, it could be argued that the tv show is a hybrid genre text and has certain elements of a sci-fi genre. We are shown this due to the time travelling element which occurs early on in the show. Steve Neales genre theory states that genres should contain elements that are similar, so that the audience know what genre is being displayed in a text. However, some texts include differences which keep the audience intrested and unaware of what genre is real...

STATEMENT OF AIMS DRAFT 1: During this statement of aims, i will be focusing on the cross-media production that i have chosen from the brief. This includes creating an original music video alongside a print magazine front cover and double page feature article. The target demographic for both the music video and magazine, is aimed at a wide mainstream audience of mainly women between the ages 16 to 25. Since they are part of this young generation, they would have more of a knowledge and interest in modern social matters so this would be the most appealing to them. For my music video, i will be using the song 'dead to me' by Kali Uchis. I will attempt to incorporate narratives and performances with key themes of identity, change and confidence which is portrayed in the lyrics of the song. The main focus of my narrative will revolve around letting go of something and moving on. I will show this narrative in the music video, by different aspects of Mise En Scene. One element of Mis...

ideas: artist:  genre: r&b , soul, contemporary similar artists: L ana del rey, Daniel caesar, Tyler the creator, Jorja smith, sza, Doja cat, Frank ocean, Steve lacy  song to use: dead to me by Kali Uchis  brief  summary of artist: Karly-Marina Loaiza (Kali Uchis), is a 26 year old singer and songwriter from america. In high school, she taught herself to play piano and saxophone which is where her intrest in music began. She began to experiment with other ideas involving music, for example, she had an intrest in photography and this led to her creating mix-tape cover art. During her teenage years, she skipped classes a lot of the time and also broke curfew which led her to be kicked out of her family home. This led to her living in her car for several months. during this time, she wrote poems, songs and music which involved writing songs on her keyboard. Her inital job idea was to be in the film industry rather than music. She deubuted in the music industry ...

PRODUCTION: PRODUCER RESEARCH    ALANTIC RECORDS brief history of record company, links to other companies or labels: - alantic records was formed in 1947 by Ahment Ertegun and Herb Abramson. They were both big music fans and record enthusiasts, mainly within jazz music.  - t hey founded Alantic Records with the intention to bring black musicians, of mainly rhythm, blues and jazz also early rock and roll, to a wider audience.  - the owners originally wanted to return to turkey however, they decided to stay in America and explore the american music scene, specifically African American music. - during the first few months of Alantic Records being incorperated, they was immediately threatened with a recording ban strike, which meant that musicans and artists were unable to record and produce music. This put Alantic Records in a situation where they had to reach into their savings in order to survive the first year. However, by 1949, they was back producing music. - in 1...

beyonce formation music video CONTEXT   > the scenes of flooding, such as the sinking police car, refernces the flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina (2005).                                                                                                  >  during Hurricane Katrina white victims were rescued however black victims were left behind. (use of Barthes referential code which relates to real life events)                                                    >  scenes of police and sirens which shows the racial tension in America.            ...