Food stylists’ food image creation for print media and consumer interpretation : an exploratory investigation

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dc.contributor.advisor Du Rand, Gerrie Elizabeth
dc.contributor.coadvisor Erasmus, Alet C. (Aletta Catharina)
dc.contributor.postgraduate Fisher, Hendrik Johannes (Hennie)
dc.date.accessioned 2014-08-12T08:45:07Z
dc.date.available 2014-08-12T08:45:07Z
dc.date.created 2014-04-10
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.description Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2012. en_US
dc.description.abstract This study explores food image creation as an integral aspect of food styling as a profession. Q-methodology, with its five steps, guided this study. At the outset, the qualitative part of the research, interviews with South African food stylists provided guidance to develop the concourse. Food magazine readers examined a set of six selected images and matched each of them against six aesthetic indicators, also indicating their subsequent behavioural intent. For this process the Q-sort method was applied in which a predetermined sample of the readership of two of South Africa‟s most eminent food magazines was involved. It is a reliable psychometric technique based on photographs that is often used in non-food related contexts such as architecture and the travel industry. Quantitatively, the data was factor analysed, from which seven factors emerged that corroborated the results. Findings confirm that Q-sort is a useful research approach for non-verbal communication in settings where, through food images, the technical and artistic messaging of food stylists comes from manipulating the assembly of food image content. It is proposed that, through non-verbal communication, food stylists who are able to purposefully create food images for print media would be able to effectively influence consumers in such a way as to bring about changed behavioural intent and eventual purchasing. Further investigation could consider expanding the theoretical base from which food stylists could pursue ways to alter consumers‟ behavioural intent. Put into practice, the findings could be a guide for food stylists when compiling food images that would successfully communicate intended messages. en_US
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dc.description.department Consumer Science en_US
dc.description.librarian gm2014 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Fisher, HJ 2012, Food stylists’ food image creation for print media and consumer interpretation : an exploratory investigation, MConSci dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41181> en_US
dc.identifier.other E14/4/358/gm en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41181
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
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dc.subject Food styling en_US
dc.subject Food image en_US
dc.subject Aesthetics en_US
dc.subject Q-methodology en_US
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Food stylists’ food image creation for print media and consumer interpretation : an exploratory investigation en_US
dc.type Dissertation en_US


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