Understanding Ideology and Values

Heat magazine

1)  The famous- pictures of celebrities

     P.10-46- Articles about celebrities and what they've been doing recently, including information about their personal life. Some of the celebrities are Zayn Malik, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian and Kimberley Walsh.

P.47-61 Beauty products such as make up and clothes; shops where you can get them from "in season" fashion.

P.63-97 What's on tv including shows and movies. TV soap spoilers, music,books and food and also the heat interview.

P.98  Lauren Platt's likes and dislikes.

2) p.10-46 The message it gives the reader is general gossip about well known celebrities and their lifestyles

P.47-61 People should wear the latest fashion to follow trends and to aspire to celebrity styles so that they look and feel good

P.63-97 Suggestions on what people should watch based on reviews 

P.98 Shows that celebrities are like us - their likes and dislikes and have similar lifestyles

3) Three main topics the magazine covers are celebrities, shopping and a TV playlist 

4) Ideologies are values,beliefs and ideas that guide our lives. The lifestyle heat magazine promotes to its readers is the idea that we should guide our lives like celebrities by valuing their fashion and looks and believing that we can be like them if we follow their behaviour and trends. The magazine promotes this idea by giving it's audience articles about celebrity lifestyles and also other magazines which are similar to heat for example "OK " which uses a similar format and genre to set the idea and values.

5) The target audience for heat magazine is mostly females between the ages of 14-25. The ideal target reader may find the articles interesting because it lets them know about latest fashions they can copy, to make themselves look and feel good. The articles entertain and inform the reader on what's going on.