Research: Gender in magazines

Gender representations in other magazines:

Female

This is stereotypical represented for a female to purchase this magazine. It has a pink background. This is typically young female colour. You have a female celebrity at a medium shot adding to a female representation of this magazine. You have the added extras of women's clothes that you can buy to get the look. This also makes women want to look like the celebrity by her looks and wears.

As I want to have both male and female genders in my magazine I will be taking this idea of the female magazine. I could take the idea of dressing up with a women's look. Or using the pink background as a font. As tech is normally a male look using these ideas will add the female look of using tech.








Male:

This is stereotypical represented for a male's to purchase this magazine. It uses a long shot of a male guitarist. That breaks convention by not looking into camera. The generally would be represent for younger males that enjoy music in the way to look like him and hoe to get his style. This has a much plainer background so this doesn't really represent anyone. Also, with the extra's they advertise in the magazine being more male stereotypical things like tattoos etc.

As I want to have both male and female genders in my magazine I will be taking this idea of the male magazine. I could take the ideas of they look.  As stereotypical males are more into tech the style and font and the wear he is dressed can be added into my magazine.









Other Gender:




This is stereo-typically represented as a more modern transgender feature on this TV guide. This is as the main feature is about an lezbien women. This medium close up portrays this well by putting her in the foreground and how she is dressed is more stereotypical manly than they would dress at that time. This is a contrast to the more stereotypical women in the background of what she wears and how delicate it is.

I could take the idea in this magazine for my magazine by using a different gendered person and how they are dressed and portrayed in a way so people know that they are of a different gender. As this is a old drama show I can take to much from it but deferinatly can tell how different she is shown.