Chloe has a fabulous idea. (with a little help from Mr G...)

how does heat magazine feed our obsession with celebrity culture?

after thinking long and hard, i came to the conclusion that the whole body image size zero debate was a little bit unoriginal. however, i still wanted to focus on a similar topic that i was interested in. i mentioned to my teacher that i was interested in celebrity culture, and was given the idea to focus on how we are obsessed with celebrities as a nation.

in my essay/evaluation, i could discusss what makes a celebrity, why we become so obsessive and recent events within the past five years.

although its quite a while away, for my production, i would create a typical "gossip" column in a tabloid newspaper or womens magazine.

texts i would use would include many different copies of heat magazine (i would focus on the paticular productions that sold most copies.) the heat website, which includes lots more content not included in the magazine, and readers are enccouraged to visit it several times in each issue. magazine surveys, consumer opinions etc.

i'm so happy i have an idea :)

Blogtastic

To whoever is reading this, welcome to my first post woohoooo :D

Have created first blog (my new favourite word, blog blog blog.) as part of college media assignment. first task is to basically come up with the idea that will consume rather a lot of my time between now and February '11, and also make up my overall grade. uh oh.

To be fair, I am not really 100% sure on what the brief really is right now, and i have only been an A2 student for one day, so apologies for the unoriginal and cheesy ideas. Here goes:

Idea One:

increase in eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia etc.) within teenagers and/or females

the "size zero" debate

relate to media:

• pro ana/mia websites
• celebrities
• models in fashion articles/magazines/television adverts
• tv shows (cook yourself thin, etc.)

the advantages of focusing on this particular topic means that............

it's 2.49am. i'll finish this tomorrow.