Friday 8 August 2008

MIGRAIN Analysis on the poster of The Devil Wears Prada

Media Language:
· The red colour of the shoe connotes danger and hell like and the pitchfork on the heel suggests that when women go shopping they are like devils and they go wild.
· The contrast between the white background and red shoe shows the two opposites the white background shows innocence and the red shoe shows corruption it also gives a hint to the narrative of the film suggesting that a character would be transformed from being innocent to corrupted because the white is the background showing the past and the red shoe is in the front showing the present.

Institution:
· 20th Century Fox is a well known American film studios and is one of the six major studios in America suggesting that it has been distributed well as it is part of a very big distributing studio shows that the audience that it is targeted to is a broad audience and it aims to target a wide variety of audiences.

Genre:
· The genre of the film is Comedy and Drama

Representation:
· Representation of women as prioritising their career before anything else.
· Modern society is being presented where there is equality however there are situations where people expect the girl to conform to the traditional role of women.

Audience:
· Primary audience is young women aged 16-30 years. Who is ambitious, comes into the B, C1, and C2 social class and tends to be innovators.
· Secondary audience is women from other social class D, E who aspire to be a stronger personality and make a name for them.

Ideology:
· Liberal Feminist
· Heterosexual
· Patriarchy

Narrative:
· Linear Narrative shows that it is very focused
· Binary opposition between innocence and corruption, Good vs Evil