in media we do both theory and practical, we have 2hours a week with steven doing theory and 2 hours 30mins with carol doing our practical lessons.
for our coursework we have been asked to create a music magazine of our choice.
in our theory we have covered the following topics.
stereotyping
in this section we looked at stereotyping different age groups for example the elderly and teenagers we also looked at music scenes for example emos, punks and indie. we then had a homework on stereotyping music scenes, where i first picked different music scenes and there stereotypical fashion sense and behaviour. i then found an article on the way the media stereotypes music scenes this is through appearance, behaviour, fitting the medium and real vs imagery, i then annotated it.
representation and mediation.in this part of the course we looked at an image and used the different parts or representaion and mediation to describe the image. we first made a
denotation which is observing and picking out basic information, then
connotation which is a deeper meaning attached with the image,
associations linking things to the image and
implicit personality theory influences from our own knowledge.
audiences and questionnaires
for this part we looked at different audience and had to think what interested them we then made a questionnaire to collect data showing what inyerests this style of sudience had, we also looked at who had power and controlled the audience.
identity and ideology
we first looked at what goes into ideology, values, beliefs and attitudes. for this we then had an interview from an artist of a particular music scene and had to highlight and comment on there ideology and how they even represent there social group.
house style and design
in this section we looked at layouts of different magazines and the styles in which they used to create there magazine and how it related to the content. we then had to look for styles and fonts to use in our magazine by using the website
http://www.dafont.com/ and chose a selection of font which may compliment our genre of magazine.
Analysis.
we were given a well known popular britsh magazine and were asked to identify the main features and label them correctly. e.g. the masthead, banner, kickers and headlines. and from some of those labelled we went into detail and explained what significance they gave to the magazine and how this may affect the audience.
for our practical lessons with carol we have also covered many new features.
Photoshop introduction
for our introduction to photoshop we learnt the main features and how to navigate around photoshop for example the different layers, lassoo tools, and changing colours and effects to create different images or make improvements.
fashion photography and analysis
in this lesson we looked at different fashion photography photos and analysed them through looking at colours, poses props and the way the model is dressed and how these all work to create different effects and appeal to different target audiences.
photography camera techniques.
in this part of the project we used props such as glasses and hats to create emphasis in photos, we used a white backdrop and lights create a studio and directed our models, i used amy and amanda, to do different poses taking pictures which would be relevant for my college magazine.
photo journalism
in this session we went out of college and took many different images using different features on the camera and using the set techniques and skills to create photos with highangles, rule of thirds and macro lense to create different images.
for a wide audience as there isn't a certain gender or genre of
