For my magazine I first decided on the background color. My color choice comes from fall. The next thing I decided on was the name of the magazine. I chose be first because of when I started college it was always the saying of be first. I feel this title would get someone to read the magazine because they could be the first to read about common core.
They next thing that was chosen for the magazine was the pumpkin. I love pumpkins and wanted it to feel like a fall edition, so I came up with a way to connect the two. This image draws in the reader. I feel that to some educators the common core causes a mess. As we all know those who have been teaching do not like change often. So it disrupts what they are use to and they have to begin again with new guidelines to go by.
The last image I chose to put on my magazine cover was the animals at the One Size Fits all Store. I chose this image because when I was reading about the common core a lady made the comment that we are going towards a "One size fits all" with the common core. The more I thought about it the more I agreed with it. So I added it to get the viewer thinking about what that really means when related to the common core.
The media language techniques that I used were association, Humor, and Rhetorical questions.
The association was between the pumpkin and the viewer. At this time of year who does not love pumpkins?Most everyone does so what better way to associate with them then a pumpkin.
The humor comes from the picture with the animals at the One size fits all Store. Though we are not talking about size with the common core,we can still get a sense of what the message is. The last thing I used was a question. I questioned the viewer if One size really fits all. This gets the viewer thinking and hopefully wanting to read more about it.
You mentioned that in your experience, the media has more of an impact on youth today than it did in your generation. I’ve thought about it as well and sometimes I wonder if it only appears that way. When we were teens, we were the participants but as adults, we’re spectators. As a spectator, we’ve got the privilege to see multiple aspects, including the direct effects.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, our culture has more types of media and therefore more exposure to it than ever and that has to leave its mark. I agree that a lot of it is steeped in sexuality. Unfortunately, sex and violence makes money and as long as it does, media companies will continue to produce it. Hobbs pointed out that females are often dressed, scantly, the same in G-rated films as R-rated ones. It isn’t a wonder that the objectivation of women has become so normalized if younger and younger children are exposed to it in seemingly benign sources of media.