Planning: Front cover ideas

Front Cover Designs

Topics to cover:

- Mental health

- Feminism and Gender Roles- relating this to social events

- The environment and eco-shopping

- Teen Vogue's 'Hollywood class of 2020' inspired front cover

From my audience research, the first stage, which I finished conducting on the 30th of March I found out the topics which my audience would also like to look at. This included climate change, free speech, unequal treatment during the coronavirus, mental health, discrimination, black/gay pride- a celebration of diversity, a celebration of underrepresented social/political movements.

Intertextuality to Get Out, and the famous scene of Catherine Keener hypnotizing Daniel Kaluuya

I could position the model/talent either in the position of Daniel or Catherine.

Daniel:

1. Woman- she can be dressed quite masculine or at least very comfortably- she evidently does not prioritise her looks- her appearance should break conventions- her arms and legs free from the hand/leg straps- looking powerful

The bottom cover line could be 'GET OUT: of the patriarchy in 2020 or to make it less entertainment/lifestyle and more current affairs- the girl can still be held bound- perhaps looking like Kaluuya- and the cover line at the bottom is 'The Patriarchy Thriving in 2020'

2. Or an effeminate man who adopts subordinate masculinity- perhaps wearing makeup and wearing flamboyant clothing- same two options as the women- free or bound- could represent him as a celebrity however 

Armchair protesting

Could a woman be on the chair- both arms chained but she's, just by a bit, holding on to her protest sign- this could be a more masculine woman, a black woman, a Muslim woman (the sign commenting on islamophobia), Asian women (and the sign addressing anti-Asian racism during coronavirus)- or a gay man with a sign against homophobia- could be a heterosexual, cis male but just effeminate- sign against toxic masculinity 

There could once again be a positive spin on this, however- the shackles are unbuckled and they are holding the protest sign high

*Could this be turned into a photo series titled 'We Are Not...'

Could be carried onto the online website with an article- about misinterpreted social groups self-representing themselves away from stereotypical views- Is this current affair though

Or there could be the cover line saying 'in the age of ARMCHAIR ACTIVISTS' due to digital media and social media 

There could be double use of intertextuality

 The use of the chair and then the 'Wakanda forever' hand gesture- a nod to the film 'Black Panther'- The first marvel movie with an all-black cast- the ideology of black empowerment

Climate change 

My model, submerged into the sea but their eyes are above the water, perhaps their hair lying on the surface of the water- a cover line of 'the oceans are rising- for example

                                                            where will we be'

Or on the beach with a sea in the background and there are 'climate change activists'- would it be melancholy or like a celebration- How could intertextuality be incorporated 

Other ideas

A striking picture of powerful women- intertextuality to Mean Girls through clothing- suggesting stereotypical femininity but an aspect such as bald-headed- code of gesture such as legs apart

Barbara Kruger- 'Women enough?' 

'Youth: Making Britain Great Again'

Inspiration from Dazed Magazine

Could find a protest during summer- organise to have a group of diverse men and women at the back- placards- colour bombs- either a melancholic or celebratory tone

Side-track- perhaps for photos in the content page or online article- mental health