Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area which you have studied.

The institution Bauer Media are the company who own Grazia and Take a Break. They help market the products massively for the weekly distribution that both the magazines put out. The audience that Grazia sell to is ABC1 women from 25 to 40 years, who are generally working women that take care of their appearance and have an interest in fashion and celebrity gossip.

Grazia produce there magazine stories in many different ways. The story's that they find may seem like some average celebrity of fashion gossip, but it would have actually taken a long time for the people to find the rights and to find the evidence to be able to produce the story that they find. The ways in which they do this is by sending workers around to different places around the world to find the most recent gossip about the interest of their viewers. They also go to massive fashion events around the world to find gossip about celebrities and the most recent fashion advice and lines. A lot of the time they rely on tip off's to present the stories to them, which seems to be a massive risk seeing as they have a weekly distributing deadline to meet. Grazia also seem to have some relationships with some quite famous fashion faces. They talk to Giorgio Armani an awful lot, he seems to present them with the information about his brand that they need to put in some of their articles, and in exchange he gets free advertising because the articles that they present are about his line of fashion.

Grazia distribute their magazine in a few different ways, on and offline. They obviously use the distribution chain which is That it goes to the publisher then down to the distributer, after this it goes to the whole saler, then to shops and the consumer. The other obvious option is to subscribe and then get it delivered right to your door

Grazia Notes

Grazia Notes 

• 42 people work there.
• they find their stories in other countries fashion shows. 
• Need for fashion.
• Giorgio Armani helps them out.
• They rely on tip offs for their stories. (people running around cities to try and find out celebrity and fashion tips).
• not always a story that comes up.
• need a lot of evidence to prove the story.
• certain issues with people on the front cover, presentable people.
• not always celebrity news.
• reflects how most modern women are.

What challenges/problems face Grazia in making of the magazine?

There are many problems that Grazia are faced with each production. One of these is the competitors that strive to be at the top of the market and ABC stats.  These competitors, like the Cosmopolitan or Vogue, really try to find the best contents to attract an audience. This audience is ABC1 women from 25 to 40 years, who are generally working women that take care of their appearance and have an interest in fashion and celebrity gossip This presents massive problems for big companies like Grazia because it means that they have to try even harder to find the best stories, and harder yet, try and gather some solid evidence to back it up. 

Finding stories is one thing, but trying to find the evidence is another. Grazia are faced with massive problem, dilemmas and difficulties of finding the evidence to back up these stories. Even if they they cant find one piece of evidence then they cannot publish it because a celebrity has the right to sue the magazine for putting across false information.

Ethnicity – what do OCR want you to talk about?

small content analysis of magazines. and question intro

Take a break

Human real life stories, useful articles, advertisement on bathing goods and skin care. Story’s from readers.

Real people

Similar interests, real story’s, reader submitted (like take a break)

Grazia

Fashion, celeb and celeb readers. Also advice.

Cosmopolitan

Celebrity focus, fashion, relationships, monthly, a lot of technical coverage.

Discuss the issue raised by an institution need to target specific audiences within a media industry, which you have studied. 

Grazia and Take a break have issues that can affect the business that they make. One of these issues that can make a massive effect is competition. There are different competitors for both magazines. One for Take a break is Woman’s Weekly who provide the same stories and content as Take a Break, this is a large issue that affects them massively. A competitor for Grazia would be Cosmopolitan, who are a celebrity and fashion focused magazine. They do have their differences but it is still a very similar magazine and can cause immense tension and pressure for Grazia.  

Grazia and Take a Break competitors

                 Publisher: Hearst Magazines





Publisher: Tom Smith

Publisher: Hearst Magazine

Further analysis of Hotel Babylon

The Extreme close up of Japanese businessman (Mr Matsui) in hotel Babylon.

is man is created as some sort of businessman that is quite a pervert that pays for sexual pleasures. The key lighting that is used in this shot is used very well as it bounces straight off his skin and shows quite a sweaty greasy texture. This infers that he may be getting a bit over exited due to these females taking their clothes off in front of him. The stereotype that is used in this episode is to show that Japanese businessmen are either perverts or pay for sexual pleasures.

Martin	Gianluca
He is larger	Fairly small in weight
A different colour skin (white)	He is tanned
He is fatter	Quite a short person
White clothing	Wearing black

 Martin and Gianluca argument

The argument between these two uses a range of techniques for stereotype and the how equal they both are in this potential fight. The binary opposition of this is vey useful to determine the stereotype of them. Martin is quite a weighty character that is much taller and has a much different skin colour; he is almost made to look quite pale and read. Gianluca is a lot smaller than martin but his mouth makes up for this. The shot reverse shots on them both are made as equal as each other. Martin is looked at straight on, even though he is taller. And Gianluca is Martins shoulder height but is still filmed straight on. This is to show equality and perhaps that they are both as bad as each other.

The two mangers walking along corridor

When these two walk down the corridor a sense of power and status. My first point is that they are much taller than most of these people walking up and down past them. Also all of these people are wearing these small white caps, which show the lowest status in the kitchen. Another point would be that they are wandering through this corridor doing nothing and having a chat, whereas everyone around them is running around keeping bus. 

Hotel Babylon Analysis

Hotel Babylon Analysis

Two reasonably young black men, ben Truman and Tell

Ben

Wearing a clean suit with a nice, neat and presentable haircut. Earrings in both ears, maybe to stereotype a typical homosexual person.

Tell

Chain around his neck (bling) tattoos on the body could represent street. Same goes with the hair, braided, died, stereotypical gangster style. Voice to represent area of living, perhaps east London.

They use the 180-degree rule obviously. The location is quite a classy place and by the sounds of Ben’s tone it sounds like it’s his kind of area and he almost belongs there. The Juxtaposition can determine the sexuality of Ben and can also stereotype Tell as some sort of gangster. When Ben looks down, it is clear that he is trying to hide his sexuality. Maybe this represents that he maybe is looking at Tell, or he Is looking to the floor just to try and hide any hints he gives away of his homosexuality. When they are discussing the party, Ben really does not present any facial expressions even though Tell has extreme enthusiasm through his voice.

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Casualty screenshot analysis

This is where we received a screen shot of a soap and we had to analyse it. We had to include sections from Mise-en-Scene and camera shots.

OCR media monarch review

Review of OCR media monarch programme

In the first screen shot Amy’s costume makes her look very young because it is very bright and vibrant compared to any other of the things on the set. Also the camera is going just above Paul’s son’s shoulder and slightly looking down on her which also gives a younger feel to the character Amy. Her posture is quite slanted to one side which is a stereotypical stance of the younger generation because of the attitude that the present to their elders.

Many of the older people in this scene have quite dark clothing which is a massive contrast to Amy’s clothing. For example the head teacher of the school is wearing quite an old fashioned suit and this is used very well to represent his age. Also the brandy glass that he gives to Paul is also stereotyped as quite an aged drink. The background of the head teacher scene is quite a dark browned wood and books around the room.

When Amy tries to work the car her facial expressions show massive confusion and concentration on how to work the gears and acceleration etc. This is a great representation of her age because it shows that she is not too familiar with the vehicle. Also you can hear her repeat the gears and foot pedals with her voice quietly; this could suggest that she is trying to remind herself of the mechanics to work the car.

Most of the older characters the camera angle is looking up at them, perhaps to suggest a slight over power and age representation.