COURSEWORK

Monday 7th September 2020

Learning Objective-

To explore possible tasks and research similar products.

Have a front cover and a double page spread article for an formation and entertaining fashion magazine aimed at an audience of 14-18 year olds.

Ideas-

main image on the front
4 pictures diagonal from each other writing in between

the first magazine is based on females aged between 18 and 28.

Wednesday 16th September 2020

Research

Learning Objective-

To research codes and conventions of similar products

The colour pink shows that it is feminine bright bold colourful stands out
The teen is lower case- youth immature
The vogue-house, band upper case designed

The main image covers the masthead showing how the person in the image has more importance than the actual magazine brand, this also says that she will be more of the main focus.
In the magazine and that the magazine is so well known that they can cover half of the masthead brand.
The dress has multiple different colours suggest what the tone of what is inside the magazine as well as the green and punk bright colours.
The target audience is between 16-30 year olds, because girls might wear that kind of outfit at a party or something.

21/09/20

Monochrome
Text takes small bit of page
images takes over the rest
small photos- long shot
drawing takes up most of the second page- its a different style

23/09/20

coursework planning

learning objective

- to plan an effective product aimed at a specific audience using appropriate codes and conventions.

initial planning

Name- Halfway
Tagline- your halfway there!
sub-genre-teen
Representation-mood face
house style- Bazooka
colour palette-black all colours green. green- nature black- teen colour moody/power
cover image ideas-lying on grass, in nature
possible cover lines- Be yourself secrets of fashion w/ make this your best year smile every once in a while.
info- £2.99 every 2 weeks
DPS article subject- girls can wear what they want. They can go out feel comfortable in how they dress. They can wear formal clothes or slacks and not get criticised for dressing like a boy or dressing flashy.
DPS image ideas- against a tree

30/09/20

Coursework planning continued

Target audience

Lo/ To research our target audience to enable successful targeting.

Age = 14-18

Gender= both

Race= all

Family= supportive

Education= still in school, waste of time

Hobbies and interact- arty

Urban or rural- both

favourite subjects-art, photography

how they would socialise?- online, school.

Monday 5th October 2020

D.I.R.T

3- more analytical points of DPS and cover

6- Layout of DPS

7-Target audience profile finished

Wednesday 7th October 2020

1. start putting together your front cover and DPS on Photoshop/ illustrator/ in design (07/10/20)

2.Plan photoshoots (5 images)

3.Pinterest board showing photoshoot designs/ideas (07/10/20)

4. Write article for DPS

5. Masthead (07/10/20)

Photoshoot ideas

Outside
trees in the background or like a beach background something

Wednesday 14th October 2020

Photoshoot planning

lo/To create content that meets the set brief by creating meaning for an audience of 14-18 year olds.

Image 1:

1) on a field,

2) lying on the grass

3)sunny/sunset

5)spare clothing,

6) eye level?, medium shot

Image 2:

1) A field or park

2) leaning against a tree

3)sunset

5)spare clothing

6) Worms eye view

Image 3:

1) Garden on some pebbles/stone things

2)sat on a bench

3)sunny

5)spare clothing

6)Low angle, medium shot

image 4:

1) By a wall

2)leaned against a wall

3)sunny/ sunrise/sunset

5)spare clothing

6)dutch angle

Image 5:

1)low down (like kneeling)

2) Driveway(a car behind me)

3)sunny

5)spare clothing (beanie)

6) knee angle

Wednesday 21st October 2020

Statement of intent

Lo/ To produce a concise and clear statement

My brief is a print magazine, the target audience is 14-18 year olds.

My specific target audience is going to be aimed at females, I plan to appeal them by knowing that they can be different than a stereotypical female.

By researching specific magazines, I plan to make the masthead bold and bright, and be put on top of the photograph. Seeing the ideas, I have seen I plan to make my masthead to be bright and to stand out, with a different typography to make it look more interesting, at the top of the page. While researching the colour palette most of the magazines are brightly coloured for 14-18 year olds, to make it more dark colours (Like black and blue) to add the mood of what my magazine is going to be about, but have some brighter colours in the outfits in the photos. It will appeal because not every single girl likes bright colours so this is for teenagers who don’t like bright colours to enjoy it. The cover lines are going to be in black and have a different font to the masthead to make it stand out in a different way.

I am being anti-stereotypical with girls not wearing dresses or men just wearing suits it’s about however they feel comfortable.

I plan to use intertextuality by showing that in these hard times they still look powerful in their own skin.

Monday 23rd November 2020
Mock DIRT

1)Ofcom- regulator

2)Sk8er boy and teenage dirtbag

Media language:

Narrative (story)
Mise-en-scene (Costumes and setting)
Camera work
editing
soundtrack

Differences - explain and give an example

Music Videos use camerawork to differ from each other to reveal different moods and atmospheres in the music videos. They may choose to use naturalistic camera work to show the reality of a situation compared to using highly stylised camera work to show a professional style.

In the music videos i have studied a clear difference is seen in the use of media language through mise-en-scene.

How target- methods
why- advertisers or public service
E.g live lounge

Radio producers target different audiences through the content of their radio programming, local radio stations are only available on FM in the local areas although some can be assessed through an online presence. Local radio targets a specific audience although their coverage of local events, weather, advertisement, local musicians.

Radio producers target specific audiences through their use of style and genre of a radio programme. this can be seen in Radio 1's live lounge which uses an acoustic style to attract their audience along with a younger person to attract a younger audience. This can be seen in Harry styles performance where he appeared and performed current hit to attract a younger audience then he performed a older hit by Fleetwood Mac to attract a wider audience especially when performed in an acoustic style.

4) Talk about an aspect that creates representation- image, text, colour setting?

what representation is created?

What does this suggest to the audience?

On the cover of Mojo magazine we can see that the image is monochrome

This image creates the representation of

This makes the audience think

5) similar elements of media language.

different elements of media language

use examples of each

state whether they are similar or different because of genre conventions or music type.Do they reflect magazine conventions or music conventions. use examples to support.

Wednesday 25th November 2020

Mock DIRT - Lego Movie

BBFC rate ages in the UK.

'Game Rating Authority or the video standards council'

Likely to be about media industries and theoretical framework.

2 reasons why they would release both film and video game. Give the reasons then explain them.

Strengthen the brand
Increase the fan enjoyment
increase the profit overall for the conglomerate.
Diversify the product so increase the possibility of success

2 Examples Given for the following
Know the theory well
Apply the theory to the film
Give specific examples from the film

Uses an Gratification

Entertainment - Pleasure and to escape the real world
Personal Identity - identify with characters in the film, rule models
Surveillance - Gain understanding of the world e.g news and information
Social interactions/ personal relations - Keep in touch via Video game communities or discuss the film with peers.

Blumer and Katz stated that media products were there for audience's entertainment, they were for pleasure and to escape the real world. This can be applied to the Lego Movie as this film creates a world that allows many to escape the real world and is quite humorous. We can see this specifically in the character of Lord Business as he is supposed to be the older parental figure in the film which creates humour as he is supposed to relate to parents.

Blumer and Katz stated that media products were there for the audience's entertainment, they were for pleasure and to escape the real world. This can be applied to the lego movie character identity. We can see this specifically in the character/ setting of Wyldstyle. This is because some people may identify with Wyldstyle because she is rebellious, she dosen't follow rules.

How did the Promotional campaign target a family audience?