practice essay for med 1:

the text is a front cover of the mizz magazine of december 13th-26th 2007, which is showing the content of the magazine and the news stories that will appeal to the audience and makes them purchase the magazine.
The mizz typography is written in a sans serif bold font and in pink which already shows that the type of audeince for this magazine is girls and mainly teenage girls as it includes mainly teenage stories and celebrity gossip, and most teenage girls are interested in those issues.
the masthead is written in white on a pink background to make it standsout and says "the BIGGEST fortnightly girls mag!", this again shows clearly that this magazine is mainly aimed at girls and the emphasise on the biggest in capital letters is saying that this magazine is mostly read by the audeinces then any other magazine, and also appeal to them when they read the biggest which gives a good impression of the magazine and make the audiences buy it and read it.
going down the page there is the main picture of the hollywood star Mischa Barton, there is a medium shot of her and also showing that when she is on the main picture, there must be a story of her in the magazine and that what also might appeal to the audeince which are her fans ans want to know what is the story that the magazine is covering on her, eventhough if they are not really fans of the magazine they are attracted by her.
the picture of her shows her wearing make up and wearing a green scarf which is matching her eye shadow, and she is wearing a half-naked top, which therefor might follow the laura mulvey theory as being there to appeal to males, eventhough this magazine is aimed at teenage girls, the picture itself might appeal to males which might buy it aswell.
that picture of her like that, will also make other girls follow her nad become self-obsesed and want to become preety as her, and that is again the mulvey theory that they would want to do this to appeal to males, and being represented as a male gaze.
she is smiling on the picture which indicates that she is happy with something which is shown by the quote written under her "i'm happy with i've got", this shows that she is happey with her life or maybe something else that has happened to her and might be willing to know what is that and this therfore creates enigma.
at the top corner of the page, there is a title in capital letters FREE Gift, and win cinema tickets, again is appealing to audiences and make them buy the magazine.
Misha's pictures is surrounded by real life stories, celebrity stories, these stories are there to make the audience buy the magazine and again creating enigma because they only includes few phrases on what the story is, also giving some tips on parties etc...
the other pictures shown on the cover, are of the high musical star Troy and under the pictures there is a heading of "what is in store of 2008?", which is appealing to his fans and wanting to know what are his projects and aims for 2008.
the other star is Emma Waston where she is also might be attracting her fans and harry potter fans and the use of the pictures of both actores which they could just have used titles, but the pictures are there to appeal to audiences if they are not really bothered to read the titles.
at the end of the page there is a picture of westlife which the magazine is offering as the poster, so this is again appealing to westlife fans which are mainly teeange girls.
finally the mizz website is shown two times on the magazine, in order to get more readers to consume the website as well and as knowing that nowadays most people have a much more better use of the internet than reading the magazines.