American Vogue (oral presentation)

EVALUATION:

Presentation: I think it's a good presentation because it was original, with a lot of images and funny.We used the Prezi that it's easier to manage and its more beautiful than the powerpoint.

10%

Body language and eye contact: I have to stop touching my hair because sometimes the audience can't understand what I'm saying. 7%

Structure: we started with the history, that it's the boring part and then we talked about different things. I think it's a good structure. 10%

Content: We found different information and we used it. If people weren't interested on this topic maybe didn't like what we were saying, but I think it was good. 30%

Language: I explained everything with my words, I only studied the principal idea and then I developed the topic with my words, trying to be as clear as possible. 17%

Pronunciation and intonation: I think I don't have many problems in this part. Maybe there's some words I don't pronounce good, but I think it's not my biggest problem. 18%

Self-evaluation: In my opinion, I need to improve my eye contact and some pronunciation.

FINAL MARK: 9'2

PRESENTATION

VOGUE MAGAZINE
INTRODUCTION
Hi, we are Ona and Irene and we are going to introduce you our presentation. We’re going to talk about this magazine, the American Vogue, because we thought that it was an interesting topic to talk about and it was related with the film “The devil wears prada”, that we’ll talk about this later, and with the last unit where we studied fashion.Vogue is a fashion magazine and it’s one of the most important magazine in the whole world. I’m sure you all have heard about that., and maybe, some of you use to buy this magazine.

HISTORY
The Vogue's history started in 1892 when Arthur Baldwin Turnure founded the first issue from this magazine in New York. His objectives were speaking about life's styles and the interests for New York's elite. In this time Vogue was a weekly journal.In 1909 Mr. Turnure died and Conde Nast publications bought Vogue. The company wanted to be bigger and in 1916 he established separate British Vogue and later French Vogue and the Spanish one. Today Conde Nast publications owns many magazines such as Glamour, Allure, W, Self, GQ, Details, Elegant Bride, House and Garden, Domino, Lucky, Golf Digest, and The New Yorker, just to name a few.Conde Nast transformed Vogue's advertising base and thanks that he made Vogue a completely women's fashion magazine. He also pushed for the covers of Vogue to be done by the best illustrators and photographers.Conde Nast died in 1942, but Conde Nast Corporation still lives on today.In 1973, American Vogue became a monthly publication.The other most important person who has been working in the magazine is Anne Wintour. She has been the editor in chief since 1988. She transformed this magazine in the most fashion's magazine in the world. Today some people called it "The fashion bible". Until this moment, on the magazine's covers only appeared the face from famous people. Wintours changed it, and her covers appeared all the body, unknown models and famous women. Like Michele Obama, Hilary Clinton, Kate Moss, Anne Hathaway, Sara Jessica Parker, Sienna Miller and others.In one year it’s possible to sell 132 millions copies.In 2007 they presented some photos from their magazine in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.Nowadays, it's published in more than twenty countries, like Italy, Spain, China, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico...

CURIOSITIES
On the one hand, we can say that in this magazine only appeared 4 males on the cover: LeBron James, a basketball player, George Clooney and Richard Gere, who were actors and Ryan Lochte. They always appeared with a woman. Some observers criticized the cover as a prejudicial depiction of James because he was like King Kong.Does anyone knows about the relation between the film and the magazine? As we said before, the devil wears prada’s related with Vogue. Lauren Weisberger, the author of the book, was Anne Wintour secretary, and we can see on the film how Anne was (Miranda Presley on the film or book). This film is based in real facts, the experience from Lauren.The september issue:The September issue is a 2009 American documentary film about Anne Wintour and her staff during the production in 2007 issue of American Vogue. In this documentary we can see the longest issue in the world, that had 840 pages and it’s weight was about 2’5 kg. But this changed the last September that the magazine was bigger than the other, that had 970 pages.

COVERS
As you can see here, at the beginning the covers were draws, later only appeared the face from famous models, and when Anne arrived, started appearing famous women in general, and showing the body, not only the face.This cover is from Dali, and he drew it in 1944. We think it’s surrealist and original.

CONCLUSION
To finish this presentation we want to say that it’s possible that you weren’t interested on this topic, we understand you! but we thought that it could be a little bit interesting because we watched on the class the film and we studied the vocabulary related on it. These are the reasons we have presented this to you.In our opinion, we can’t realize how they manage all this, because we think that it’s only buying some clothes, but behind this, there is a lot of money and people working to make it better.We hope you liked our presentation. Do you have any questions?