Please check your blogs for my comments on your work to date.
The main note is that media terminology is only being used to identify features not really analyse and to get the higher levels you MUST analyse.
This means two things.
Denotations must be precise and detailed - an image/photo needs close analysis as we did earlier this term; copy needs to be explore like you might a poem - specific word choices, use of puns, alliteration etc. description need not be very long but should be precise.
Connotations must be drawn from what you have described. Meanings are to be explored - the reasons why the masthead might be in front of or behind the person in the photograph, the reasons why text might be slanted, in different fonts etc. the relative positions, the use of layout tricks, like the pretend sticker and the purpose of these with respect to the audience.
Audience: remember to apply BLulmer and Katz - how are the four uses and gratifications being apllied? Celebrities, why are we attractec to read about them? Advertisers? demographics etc.
Lots to consider I know BUT all quite within your grasp.
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