Magazine Front Covers

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There are many images which are placed all over the cover of this magazine which may suggest to the audience that the magazine would also be filled with many images to make it look interesting and appealing also attracting readers to what to purchase the magazine in order to find out the lastest gossip and keeep up to date with thier favourite celebrities lifestyles.

The three main images on the cover of the magazine represent glamorous and slim women. The issue that can arise through these images of the celebrities is almost showing the readers that they should read about thier favourite celebrities issues rather than to focus on their own offering readers a sense of escapism. However the main story of the magazine is the hair styles of these females. They are represented as the icons of celebrity fashion and encouage the readers to want to be just like their favourite celebrities. The fact that there are only two males on the magazine front cover may suggest that the magazine may offer a voice for women in this heavily male dominated society. The colour red is used a lot on the cover which could connote passion, love or danger. It may also act as a symbol to suggest to readers that there are also important issues and debates which can be araised from this magazine.

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Heat magazine

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The genre of this magazine is gossip and celebrity news

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Offering women to read about different issues involving thier favourie celebrties. Show women as wanting to keep up to date with th

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The audience for this magazine would be C1 C2D class females, aged 21-35. They would enjoy reading about celebs, and wanting to be like them. It may also be targeted to teenagers between the ages of 15 to 19.

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Feminist ideologies

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Visual narrative

Cosmopolitan Magazine

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Beyonce is on the front cover of the magazine. The way in which she is standing and the dress she is wearing highlights how stylish she is encouraging readers to purchase this magazine. She is in the middle of the magazine and covers the whole front cover which may highlight One of the key themes which is made evident through the captions is the main theme of the magazine which is sexual and aims to offer women advice.

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Fashion and beauty

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A magazine which is mostly about fashion and beauty and lifestyle.

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Independent women as shown as Beyonce is on the front cover of the magazine.

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Older females this magazine shows to offer women a lot of advice on how to improve certain aspects of thier life.

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Feminist ideologies as the magazine makes the readers believe that this is the guide to improve thier lives.

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Informative narrative as it offers women advice

Globalisation Task- Viacom

Viacom short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks) and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios)

In 2005, Viacom had announced plans of splitting the company into 2 publicly traded companies. This had been made possible due to the company was struggling and dealing with stagnating stock price and also rivalry between Leslie Moonves and Tom Freston, longtime heads of CBS and MTV Networks respectively.

What Viacom Own:
Film Production and Distribution: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures DreamWorks, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures

Television Networks: Comedy Centra lLogo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Noggin, The N, Nick Jr., TEENick, MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT, Palladia

Video Gaming: Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets

Television Production and Television Distribution: DreamWorks Television

Paramount Pictures Corporation:-Paramount Pictures-Dreamworks Studio-Paramount Vantage-MTV Films-Nickelodeon Movies-Home Entertainment

Disney

The walt Disney company is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as an animation studio, it has become one of the biggest Hollywood studios.

Disney's founder Walter Elias Disney was found the spirit of creativity, innovation and excellence. Walt arrived in California in the summer of 1923 with dreams and determination,. He had made a short film in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice's Wonderland, and he planned to use it as his "pilot" film to sell a series of these Alice Comedies to a distributor. On October 16, 1923, a New York distributor, M. J. Winkler, contracted to release the Alice Comedies, and this date became the formal beginning of The Walt Disney Company.

Originally known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, with Walt Disney and his brother Roy as equal partners, the company soon changed its name, to the Walt Disney Studio, which was initially housed in a succession of storefront buildings in Hollywood.

In an effort to expand its business, Disney initiated the Disney Channel in 1983 and established a new film label, Touchstone Pictures, with the release of Splash in 1984. However, because of the widespread perception that Disney stock was undervalued relative to the company's assets, in 1984 there were attempts to stage hostile takeovers of the company. These efforts were unsuccessful and, in October, Michael Eisner and Frank Wells became chief executive officer and president, respectively

The studio continues to produce highly popular filmed entertainment, with animated films like Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty,

Disney Employees 137,000

Channels owned by Disney include:
Disney Channel
Playhouse Disney
Jetix
ESPN
Toon Disney
ABC

Disney Films Include:
Wall E
The chronicles of Narnia
High school musical
Cars

Micheal Grade

Micheal Grade is the executive chairman of ITV after leaving the BBC. Grade had immediately made his aggressive intentions clear when ITV poached the rights to host live FA Cup games and England internationals from the BBC. When joing ITV he said Michael Grade said in the statement that it was a "great privilege" to be invited to run ITV.
"It has been a tough career decision to leave the BBC but it was an opportunity I could not resist, given my family's history in the founding of ITV and my own background at London Weekend Television," he also said.
"My first priority at ITV will be to support the team in accelerating the improvement in programming performance for our viewers and advertisers.

Micheal grade began his career with the daily mail in 1960 and was a sports columnist to 1964 to 1966.

Micheal Grade had joined the BBC in 1984, where as controller of BBC1 he scrapped Doctor Who and bought Neighbours. Neighbours, at first was purely an afternoon programme, however in a later given timeslot, on the advice of his daughter who was irritated by the fact that she could not watch it due to her being at school. This proved to be a successful scheduling decision that still remained in place until February 2008 before it moved to channel five.

On 28 November 2006, Grade and the BBC confirmed that he was to resign from his post with the BBC to replace Sir Peter Burst as Chairman and Charles Allen as Chief Executive of one of the companies which formed part of its commercial rival ITV. Micheal Grades main objectives while being at ITV were to bring more sucess to its digital channels whcih include ITV2,3 and 4

He became chief executive of Channel 4 in 1988.

Micheal Grade returned to the BBC in 2004 after seven years out of broadcasting, when he chaired film studio Pinewood-Shepperton and lottery operator Camelot.