Magazines: Tatler CSP case study

 


1) Look at the Tatler Media Pack. Go to page 2: how does the editor introduce the magazine?
The editor is giving info to the people who are gonna read tatler and giving names to the people who created it.


2) Now go to page 4 of the Media Pack. Focus on the print magazine (NOT tatler.com - the website). List the key demographic details: age, gender %, ABC1 % (social class), HHI (Household Income), % of those living in London and the South East. What do these demographic details suggest about the average Tatler reader?
TATLER

Circulation 80,035
Readership 163,000
Average HHI £261,572
Female 73% ABC1 83%
AB 51% Average Age 41
London/SE 70%


3) Look at page 6. What do Tatler readers think about fashion? How much do they spend?
The like fashion and the spend so much money on the magazines

4) Go to page 10. What are the special editions of Tatler that run throughout the year? What does this suggest about the Tatler audience? What about the pyschographic audience group that best fits Tatler?
-Tatler gives guides to the audience they can have edvices
-They need advice on different things that they do




Media language

1) What different examples of typography can you find on the cover of Tatler? What are the connotations of the serif and sans serif fonts?Is like an old design of for clothes

2) How do the cover lines appeal to the Tatler target audience?
They are in a colour which will cath and eye on
3) What are the connotations of the Tatler colour scheme on this particular front cover?there dark and pastel colours

4) How is the central image designed to create interest in the magazine? Find three reasons for your answer. (E.g. the model, the mise-en-scene such as props, costume and make-up, body position, facial expression etc.)The lady is leaning on a bush:she is wearing a dress and her make up is bright colours.


Representations

1) What celebrities, politicians or famous people are mentioned on the cover? Why do you think Tatler put them on the cover?
Emma Weymouth  and they put her on tatler because will like her and more people will read tatler
2) What do the cover lines suggest about the lifestyle of rich people in the UK?
 royal dressing for a queen this telling us that this for a rich person

3) Looking at the image and cover lines together, what different groups of people are represented on the cover and how are they represented? (E.g. men/women/rich people/race & ethnicity etc.) 
there is a rich women in the picture
4) Are there any stereotypes being reinforced or subverted? How? Why?
This clothes are for rich people 

Social and cultural context

1) Find three other front covers for Tatler from different months. What issues, subjects or people are regularly featured in Tatler?








people want to look beautiful so they look for advice

2) Tatler runs special issues on holidays, spa breaks, cosmetic surgery, watches and jewellery and private schools. What does this suggest about the magazine's representation of life in Britain? 
they  are popular in Brtitain

3) What audience groups might be offended or insulted by the front cover of Tatler April 2017?  many people because is wierd.

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