Magazine Reseach

A few weeks ago, the media class went out to our local town to Gerrards Cross to go to WHSmith. We went here so that we could look at the different ranges of magazines that are sold and to look at how women are represented in the media. We picked up the Women's health, Men's health and Cosmopolitans.  We then spent the next few lessons looking through these magazines and comparing both the Womens health and Cosmopolitain with the Mens health together and seeing if there were any similarities or differences between how men and women are presented in media. We notice that the men are presented with blues and blacks colours to show muscularity. Whereas both of the women's magazines show women looking seductive with little bare skin showing on their stomachs and pinks and purple, presenting the stereotype of a women. However, both men and women magazines show how to work out and look the best with nutritious hacks.  This primary data will help us get a wider idea of how women are presented in the media and will help in our exam.