Newspaper (Meghan Markle) Essay
The articles given are from The Times and The Sun. Both differ in many different ways; The Sun, being a tabloid newspaper feature popular articles that tend to appeal to the masses. The tone of articles associated with The Sun are more informal and informative and they tend to use more image rather than text. The times on the other hand is a broadsheet newspaper, which feature 'quality' articles including political and international stories. The tone of these articles are more formal and informative, contrasting to tabloids there's more text than image.
Both articles feature their iconic fonts for their papers; The Sun having an italic white font with a red box on the outlines and a Poppy icon on top for Remembrance day. While The Times has it's bold serif font. Both these are traditional for each paper. The headline for The Times ''Welcome to the Family'' is much more pleasant than The Sun's ''Don't fall for my little sis Harry, she'd be the next-'' and then in capitalised bold letters '''PRINCESS PUSHY (...AND SHE'S ALREADY MET PRINCE CHARLES)'' The use of ellipses to dramatise and give wrong meaning to Meghan's meeting with Prince Charles.
There's a caption for the image The Sun uses (which I can't read sorry) and a sidebar with a bigger poppy and a sub heading that reads ''PM joins our fight for on footie poppies'' underneath this heading we have the byline. In the top right corner we have a sneak peak for a section on people who use their phones whilst driving and the font used for the word ''Mobile Menaces'' is the same as ''Princess Pushy'', comparing the two negative representations by using the same fonts. The only other use of typography The Sun uses would be the advert displayed at the bottom of the sidebar ''FREE XMAS TREE'' and the mention of a football star returning in the top left corner ''Blue's Barc from the dead'', using phonetically spelt version of the word 'back' to empathises it's informality with their audience.
The Times uses more text than image, differing to The Sun. There are two sub-leads under the main heading, stating ''Key Role of Prince Charles' in the royal wedding'' and ''Kindness to mother leaves Meghan touched''. Underneath these two we have the byline and then the stand-first giving us more detail about the story. The only other time we see text would be halfway down the first column showing us previews for other articles inside the paper such as ''The order of service'', ''Route to the chapel'' and ''The Music''.
The main image used in The Sun's article is a photo shopped image of Meghan in a more revealing outfit, sexualising her and then Prince Harry next to her laughing in a suit. The image displays negative connotations making many of the British population disapprove of Meghan, suggesting she's a bad influence to the royals. The image used in The Times is the complete opposite we have a mid shot of Meghan with said mother (from subheading) smiling, in a much more appropriate dress, giving her positive connotations.
Both papers include the picture of Meghan as their centre but The Times is more balanced out, formatting more text around the image. Whereas The Sun has other images relating to sub-headings hanging about the page. The two papers follow the traditional black and white colour scheme, with the exception of The Sun's red font and green text for their Christmas advert.
To conclude, with the use of typography, layout and images The Sun depict Meghan to be more evil and more of a curse to the royal family whereas The Times are welcoming Meghan to the royal family and see her in a positive manner.
Both articles feature their iconic fonts for their papers; The Sun having an italic white font with a red box on the outlines and a Poppy icon on top for Remembrance day. While The Times has it's bold serif font. Both these are traditional for each paper. The headline for The Times ''Welcome to the Family'' is much more pleasant than The Sun's ''Don't fall for my little sis Harry, she'd be the next-'' and then in capitalised bold letters '''PRINCESS PUSHY (...AND SHE'S ALREADY MET PRINCE CHARLES)'' The use of ellipses to dramatise and give wrong meaning to Meghan's meeting with Prince Charles.
There's a caption for the image The Sun uses (which I can't read sorry) and a sidebar with a bigger poppy and a sub heading that reads ''PM joins our fight for on footie poppies'' underneath this heading we have the byline. In the top right corner we have a sneak peak for a section on people who use their phones whilst driving and the font used for the word ''Mobile Menaces'' is the same as ''Princess Pushy'', comparing the two negative representations by using the same fonts. The only other use of typography The Sun uses would be the advert displayed at the bottom of the sidebar ''FREE XMAS TREE'' and the mention of a football star returning in the top left corner ''Blue's Barc from the dead'', using phonetically spelt version of the word 'back' to empathises it's informality with their audience.
The Times uses more text than image, differing to The Sun. There are two sub-leads under the main heading, stating ''Key Role of Prince Charles' in the royal wedding'' and ''Kindness to mother leaves Meghan touched''. Underneath these two we have the byline and then the stand-first giving us more detail about the story. The only other time we see text would be halfway down the first column showing us previews for other articles inside the paper such as ''The order of service'', ''Route to the chapel'' and ''The Music''.
The main image used in The Sun's article is a photo shopped image of Meghan in a more revealing outfit, sexualising her and then Prince Harry next to her laughing in a suit. The image displays negative connotations making many of the British population disapprove of Meghan, suggesting she's a bad influence to the royals. The image used in The Times is the complete opposite we have a mid shot of Meghan with said mother (from subheading) smiling, in a much more appropriate dress, giving her positive connotations.
Both papers include the picture of Meghan as their centre but The Times is more balanced out, formatting more text around the image. Whereas The Sun has other images relating to sub-headings hanging about the page. The two papers follow the traditional black and white colour scheme, with the exception of The Sun's red font and green text for their Christmas advert.
To conclude, with the use of typography, layout and images The Sun depict Meghan to be more evil and more of a curse to the royal family whereas The Times are welcoming Meghan to the royal family and see her in a positive manner.
Your analysis is very detailed and your application of media language is very strong. You are clear on the differences in the genres of the newspapers, and how they generate different representations of Meghan. At times you need to more explicitly link your analysis back to the question- how the use of media language construct representations of of Meghan? 10/15
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