http://www.harpersbazaar.com/

Bazaar fashion website

Paste online magazine

GABOUREY Sidibe has been told she’s too fat to appear on the front cover of Vogue magazine.

The Oscar-nominated Precious star apparently won’t feature in the revered fashion magazine because of her size — and they won’t have any clothes to fit her.

“She’s a joke in the fashion community,” a source told the Popeaterwebsite.

“What she wore on the red carpet at the Academy Awards wasn’t a dress, it was a tent.

“Vogue is the venue where designers debut their best new pieces.

“All of which are one of a kind and sample size. It would be impossible to get a regular-sized girl in those clothes, let alone Gabby.”

representation

gabourey sidibe is a young and viberent young actress and is very much in the media at this moment in time not just with the award winning movie precious based on the novel PUSH by sapphire but also for her exhilarating and electrifying peersonality and her full-sized figure which also leads on to her role of beaing an ambassador to youths and young adults on how to give your self asteem a boost and to talk about the serious issue of obiesity.

Rated: R [See Full Rating]

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 6, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $47,536,959

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/precious-star-gabourey-si_n_365925.html

Synopsis: Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is…
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.
Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.
In Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard, and winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE stars Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introducing Gabourey Sidibe.
Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based on the novel Push by Sapphire.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/precious/

diversity in magazines

Directed by Kirsten Sheridan

Produced by Ed Guiney

Written by Enda Walsh

Starring
Elaine Cassidy (Disco pigs, the others)

Cillian Murphy (28 days later, girl with a pearl earing, batman begins, the dark night)

THIS IS HOW CILLIAN MURPHY IS REPRESENTED IN THE MEDIA (THE TIMES REVIEW BY Kevin Maher)

Cillian Murphy drops his head into his hands and groans: “Ah, man! I’m not digging these questions. Genuinely.” The 33-year-old Irish actor, Batmanstar and blue-eyed pin-up has thus far taken it on the chin. He is in the bar of a swank Toronto hotel, enjoying a break from filming his new Leonardo Di Caprio thriller Inception. We have, however, momentarily entered the “silly buggers” section of the interview.

Who, for instance, would win a wrestling match between Murphy and his fellow Celtic screen stars Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender? “I’m definitely not answering that. I can’t,” he says, chortling nervously. Does he ever think about dyeing his eyes? “No, but I did actually wear brown contacts for my last film, just out of curiosity.” When was the last time he cried? That one sends him over the edge. He says that it’s not fair. “I want to think of something witty to say, preferably untrue,” he protests. “But I need more time.”

If the questions seem unduly flippant, it’s only because they echo the tone of Murphy’s latest movie, Perrier’s Bounty. A crime flick set in contemporary Dublin, it features Murphy as a disgruntled son who resents his conman father (Jim Broadbent), owes money to a mobster (Brendan Gleeson) and falls in love with a suicidal neighbour (Jodie Whittaker). It’s a film both witty and ramshackle that explores similar territory to the “Celtic noir” worlds of Murphy’sIntermission or Farrell’s In Bruges. Thus it also boasts a bestiary of loquacious hard men and booze-sodden eccentrics who spin wildly around Murphy’s sullen and sad-eyed centre.

“That’s the way it was written,” he explains. “I am the eyes of the audience, the Everyman in the movie. I’m surrounded by these larger-than-life characters. So all I do is play the situation, and play my reactions.”

Cillian murphy dazed magazine

The premise for 24-year-old Kirsten Sheridan’s debut film sounds like it was lifted from the Nirvana song ‘Drain You’. Two babies, born seconds apart, meet in a hospital and forge an inseparable connection. They grow up to be Pig (Murphy) and Runt (Cassidy): teenagers in perfect sync with each other. They live next door to each other, they have the same kooky rituals and they go to sleep holding hands through a secret hole in their bedroom wall.

But what starts out as a seemingly quirky love story soon takes a darker turn. An unexpected burst of violence from the permanently wired Pig shows that while together they are in harmony, separately his manic personality tends towards chaos, while Runt is a centre of calm. As they approach their 17th birthdays this balance gets thrown out of whack and their relationship begins to fragment.

Set in Cork and boasting remarkable performances from Murphy and Cassidy, Disco Pigs explores that moment when adulthood infects the sanctity of adolescence. From the opening scenes in the womb to the barely comprehensible-yet-lyrical language Pig and Runt speak (a Nadsat-like blend of colloquialisms and jumbled syntax), the exclusivity of their world is beautifully realised and richly textured, taking on a fairytale quality. The film spirals towards gut-wrenching violence (soundtracked by Englebert Humperdinck), but it’s subtly handled and Sheridan demonstrates some real visual flair.

One of the most refreshing and original slices of fucked-up teen spirit to grace cinema screens in recent years.

Pig (Murphy) and Runt (Cassidy)

http://www.film4.com/reviews/2001/disco-pigs

REVIEWS

Directed by Kirsten Sheridan, starring Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy.

It’s been a good year for Irish cinema talent. Colin Farrell making his US breakthrough in ‘Tigerland’, two fine romantic comedies in the form of ‘About Adam’ and ‘When Brendan Met Trudy’ and now ‘Disco Pigs’, where the trio of Kirsten Sheridan, Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy help bring Enda Walsh’s acclaimed play to the big screen and create one of the most moving and original films in quite some time.

With the southern capital transformed into Pork City, the film follows the relationship between Pig (Murphy, reprising his breakthrough stage role) and Runt (Cassidy), friends since birth (on the same day) who have constructed their own language and world which orbits everyday life. As they edge closer to 17, the bond between the duo suffers its sternest test yet when Runt is taken away to a special school in a bid to give her the independence she has never known. But as Runt tries to move on, Pig cannot accept that she is growing both up and away and wants more from her than just friendship.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2001/1011/discopigs.html

The inbetweeners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oF5qUK3DQg

http://www.e4.com/inbetweeners/

The inbetweeners

Colour scheme: black, purple, white and grey

Text colours: black and purple

Images: Large image of the four main characters from the inbetweeners (Will, Simon, Jay and Neil)

 Showing them as the normal school stereotypes:

Will

Stereotype: School geek/do gooder  

Quote: Hello, I’m William McKenzie and I’m proud of how well I’m doing at making friends in my new school.

Clip Of Will

Simon

Stereotype: good boy/ Leader of the pack

Quote: Erm, hello. I’m Simon. My mates call me Si. I go to a fairly uninspiring school in a fairly uninspiring town.

Clip Of Simon

Jay

Stereotype: Joker (funny man)/ Ladies man

Quote: Right, hello ladies the names jay…

Clip Of Jay

Neil

Skins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho69_sCkwyI

http://www.e4.com/skins/

Colour scheme: purple, grey and red

Text colours: black, red, purple

Images: Large image of two main characters (effy and Naomi) showing them having fun and appealing to the target market/ audience of 16 to 25 year olds (the youth market)  alongside with a smaller image of another main character from skins (Katie) with a link to watching a clip of the upcoming series of the TV programme.

 Side bars and links: from this website you are able to access the following links to do with the programme, blogs, episode guide, meet the gang (characters), pictures, video, style, music, best bits, cast and crew, interactive trailer, skins applications, newsletter, skins quizzes.

our website should have most or all of the features above…x

How does the ITV show ‘X Factor’ appeal to such a large audience?

The X factor is acknowledged world wide as one of the largest and well known reality talent shows in the media today. Simon Cowell (producer and creative director) of the X factor uses a variety of techniques to capture the hearts of the viewing public therefore getting high ratings such as:

• Bad auditions (someone who makes the audience feel better about themselves)

Ariel Burdett

• Good auditions  (someone who makes the audience feel happy emotions towards the contestant through thier peformance they like to use the term  ”the underdog” to show that the person is just a ordinary person like you and me but is getting the chance to  make thier dream come true.)

Danyl Johnson

the X factor separates the final contestants in to different categories so that each category can relate to the viewing public in some way through segmentation.

• Over 25’s (aimed at thier older target audience) 

• Boys (aimed at young men and also at young ladies ) 

lloyd is a 16 year old boy from whales, he therefore relates to the younger target audience because of his age.

• Girls (aimed at young ladies and also at young men)

stacey is young a single mother which straight away relates her life to a wide amount of young single mothers world wide who there for feel that they need to support her in her journey of winning the X factor. 

• Groups (aimed at all of the target audiences) 

with the groups because they are all a variety of ages and races they relate to all of the viewing public because of the massive DIVERSITY.

The target audience for the X factor are working class citizens in the UK and Ireland who can relate to the people who audition and get through on to the program. Also the X factor doesn’t use just one type of media (television) that would limit the amount of viewers and consumers of the program. But by having an internet based site and being able to press the red button and watch it again and or vote by television and having online chat blogs about the program along with tabloid magazines with stories about the contestants widens their consumer range yet again. Having an internet site enables the X factor to substantially increase their international viewing figures.

In conclusion the show appeals to such a wide audience because it covers every demographic. Race, age, gender, occupation, class, sexuality etc. and finally geographical likeability such as John and Edward being from Ireland and Lucy being from a small village in Whales all these components bring together a successful format for reality T.V show.