Kids in Glass Houses - Raise Hell
Friday 28 August 2009
Forever and Always - Taylor Swift
This particaular song is rather girly and has a upbeat tempo to it, it has the potential to be a good music video has it has a very strong narrative in the song, if i chose to use this video i would want it to be a performance and narrative based video having the main charter performance being in a carpark and her singing to him the narrative however will show her boyfriend slip away from her.
About A Girl- The Academy Is
This song has potential to be a good music video as the tempo is upbeat video the song is about a boy who is denying he is in love with a girl even though he is showing the signs that he is, he doesn't want to admit to being in love and therefore says "this is not my heart"
For ideas for a video we could have a narrative and performance the narrative being a boy trying to impress a girl by doing gestures and him being shot down over and over again till he gives up at the end of the video.
Cd cover analysis 3
Katy Perry- One Of The Boys Katy Perry album One of the Boys album cover is complete opposite of the albums name. Katy Perry’s name is at the top of the album of the second layer of the image in pink with an outline of while bubbly writing, around her name is tiny white stars being in pink is a very famine colour and contrast with the title of the album being One of the Boys.
The image is set in a garden with the artist being shown on the cover. The artist is being featured as this is her first album and has not built up a reputation not to show her on her album cover. In the image she is looking directly at the camera to make the audience feel connected to her.
Katy is wearing girly clothes to keep with the girly theme; they are also in the time period of the 1950’s showing that she is no afraid to express her self or her music.
The setting of the image is in a garden with a white fence and blue skies all very girly, she is lying on a sun bed with a pink towel and a pink cd player, keeping in with the very girly theme having pink props the garden is full of flowers.
The title of the album is in smaller font that the artist’s name this could be because it was her first album she would want people to remember her name. The title of the album is called One if the boys and the image the album has given out is girly so it contrasts with the name, the title of the album is also in blue the first masculine colour on the album cover however the colour of the blue is light and the font used it girly still.
The image is set in a garden with the artist being shown on the cover. The artist is being featured as this is her first album and has not built up a reputation not to show her on her album cover. In the image she is looking directly at the camera to make the audience feel connected to her.
Katy is wearing girly clothes to keep with the girly theme; they are also in the time period of the 1950’s showing that she is no afraid to express her self or her music.
The setting of the image is in a garden with a white fence and blue skies all very girly, she is lying on a sun bed with a pink towel and a pink cd player, keeping in with the very girly theme having pink props the garden is full of flowers.
The title of the album is in smaller font that the artist’s name this could be because it was her first album she would want people to remember her name. The title of the album is called One if the boys and the image the album has given out is girly so it contrasts with the name, the title of the album is also in blue the first masculine colour on the album cover however the colour of the blue is light and the font used it girly still.
Cd cover analysis 2
The Academy Is... The album cover for The academy is.. Album fast time at Barrington high, this album is the bands third album, therefore as you can see the band don’t need to have a image of themselves on the cover of the album as they have already created a fan base that would by their album again.
Instead this albums main image is of a man and women but cuts of at their head. You can tell it is a man and women as the mise en scene they have used makes it clear, the women is wearing flip flops with her toe nails painted red, her trousers are also a little shorter than normal trousers which are made for women. On her wrist as well is a hair band again showing that she is a woman. Further more as the images of the man and the women stops at their shoulders the women blonde hair is longer than shoulder length their for establishing that she is a women.
The man however is wearing typical men clothes trainers and trousers these trousers are checked which shows that he may be individual who doesn’t mind to standout. Looking at the image shows the man legs turned away from the women’s, his hands are clasped together, his body seems to be facing away from hers. The women seems to have her legs also turned away from the man but she does not look as nervous as his, this image could show that the album may contain songs about relationships as the main image shows a man and women together but ignoring each other at the same time.
The name of the band is on the second layer of the image and stands out as it is in white with a glow coming of off it. The band name is in the font that is associated with them, as they have been using this font since their first album.
However the name of the album is in small font underneath the name of the band, it is also in brackets. The title of the album being “fast times at Barrington high” suggests that there may be many songs about young love between girls and boys as it seems to be set during their high school years being in brackets shows the band do not want to make a deal about the name of the album but it still is important and is still featured on the cover.
Instead this albums main image is of a man and women but cuts of at their head. You can tell it is a man and women as the mise en scene they have used makes it clear, the women is wearing flip flops with her toe nails painted red, her trousers are also a little shorter than normal trousers which are made for women. On her wrist as well is a hair band again showing that she is a woman. Further more as the images of the man and the women stops at their shoulders the women blonde hair is longer than shoulder length their for establishing that she is a women.
The man however is wearing typical men clothes trainers and trousers these trousers are checked which shows that he may be individual who doesn’t mind to standout. Looking at the image shows the man legs turned away from the women’s, his hands are clasped together, his body seems to be facing away from hers. The women seems to have her legs also turned away from the man but she does not look as nervous as his, this image could show that the album may contain songs about relationships as the main image shows a man and women together but ignoring each other at the same time.
The name of the band is on the second layer of the image and stands out as it is in white with a glow coming of off it. The band name is in the font that is associated with them, as they have been using this font since their first album.
However the name of the album is in small font underneath the name of the band, it is also in brackets. The title of the album being “fast times at Barrington high” suggests that there may be many songs about young love between girls and boys as it seems to be set during their high school years being in brackets shows the band do not want to make a deal about the name of the album but it still is important and is still featured on the cover.
Cd cover analysis 1
The album cover is for Demi Lovato’s album, Don’t Forget. Demi Lovato’s music genre is mainly pop/rock but looking at this image you can tell the artist is focusing on the rock side of her genre this is apparent from the colours that have been used in the image black and red, the title of her album is written over and over again in black writing and looks like someone has painted it on the first layer of the image. Repeating the title of her album and the way that it has been written on the image makes people remember the name of the album clearly, it is also the name of one of the tracks featured on the album that was released as a single, therefore promoting that particular single.
The second layer of the image is the artist; the artist in this case has been featured on the front cover of the album, using solely the artist and no other images establishes Demi Lovatos solo music career as this was her first album it would make the consumer remember her for any future albums.
The image of Demi is a long shot showing her holding a guitar again reinforcing her music to be more rock than pop in this album, her very dark clothing makes her stand out from the white background and makes her name stand out as well. How ever she is wearing a white jacket over her black top, the white jacket make her stand out from the black writing of the album’s title underneath her. In the image of her it shows Demi wearing black leather gloves again showing the rock of her album and image.
The image of Demi shows her looking down but directly at the camera showing that she is in power of her music, looking down at the camera also shows that she is serious about her music career too.
The third layer of the image is the artists name in red, using red over the black writing underneath makes it stand out, again this is for the consumer to remember her name and who she is as she would be most famous for acting in Disney people may call her, her characters name, using the red against the black makes Demi Lovato’s name stand out.
The album cover is rockier and darker than some people may of expected from the Disney star, the audience might have been expecting a more of an clean cut image for her album cover than it is. The album cover does set in store what the album sounds like this is done by the image being different to what people may associate her by. Demi first album was to create a fan base and to interest people in her music who may not normally listen to Disney artists this was created by the album image being different from her normal clean cut image.
Sunday 1 February 2009
Friday 9 January 2009
media eassay
Media, Magazine Coursework. Essay.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media magazine that I have produced uses develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products on the market. I have included conventions that you would see on a magazine such as cover lines and primary and secondary images and mastheads on the front cover. I have kept to the forms and conventions by keeping the colour scheme the same on the front cover, contents page and the double page spread. When designing my magazine I had wanted to also challenge the forms and conventions to make my magazine different and more appealing to the target audience, I tried to challenge them in much as I could by having the mast head and primary and secondary images in my own style but keeping the main things a magazine would need the same for example price, date and barcode.
To create an idea of what magazines should look like I did a lot of research by looking at types of magazines that I believe if on the market would be competition to mine. When researching these magazines I also took in their ideas and styles to inspire me, such things as advertisements also influenced my magazine. I had to take in consideration the types of adverts seen in my magazine that would represent the readers for example the advertisements in NME magazine was for products such as mobile phones companies and typical things for teenage and people in their early twenty’s. Where as the advertisements in Metal hammer was for alcohol and games for over 18’s this tells me the magazine would be read by people over the age of 18 so and older audiences. The connotations behind these images tell me that the audience would be an older type for Metal hammer as they are targeting people over the age of 18 where as NME is advertising for universal products such as phone companies and music stores. I have tried to keep my magazine to the forms and conventions that you would see in a regular magazine but I have also tried to make them different for reader to be attracted by to by.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The media magazine I produced is targeted for readers around the age of 16 to early twenty’s no real ethnicity, but I have tried to targeted more of the gender of girls as when I was reaching different magazines I found that the type of music genre, Rock/Alternative does not really advertise for girls it is more of a masculine market. Targeting mainly girls is different from magazines in the genre of music on the market at the present moment. I’m trying to create a new image and interest for girls who listen t this music. I will market mainly girl rock bands and encourage girls to be inspired to get into this genre and create their own bands. I also want to make bands in the Alternative genre more known such as unsigned bands, and get the readers to put forward their own bands for other readers to listen. When having unsigned bands featured I will also be featuring the mainstream bands in the magazine as you can see on the front cover by using a band I would like to believe are a mainstream artist. Using young adults in the band would intrigue the normal teenagers that would read this magazine and that would be interested to read about music created by people the same age as them.
The magazine that I have created will help these girls become a signed act if they would like to and encourage them to follow their dream if they wish to do so.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I would like a big institution to distribute my magazine as there would be more support behind it to publish it, the company would also have previous experience from when they have produced other magazines. I also think it would be appropriate for a large institution as the magazine genre is not really taking a risk; I am just targeting a different type of audience to the magazines already on the market. To be able to adversities the magazine there would not be a problem with money as it being produced by such a large company and they would have the money to do such things.
When having to advertise the magazine I have produced it would have to be advertised on TV channels that my target audience be watching such as “Q “Scuzz” and “MTV hits” although this is not a spefic genre related channel it will occasionally have rock/ alternative bands playing on there and it would broaden the target audience. I would also like to advertise it on the music channels, “Kerrang” and “NME” but they are well known industries that already have their own magazines and would most likely seeing my magazine as a threat therefore not advertise my magazine but they would be the kind of channels I would advertise them on. I would also try and take advertising my magazine on the radio on stations that again my target audience would be listening to such as Xfm and Virgin radio. When advertising in print I would like it to be advertised in places such as train stations and in the entertainment section of a newspaper.
How did you attract/address your audience?
When designing my magazine I had to think about how I would get the attention of the reader’s eye. I used 3 main colours, them being purple white and pink. Looking at them 3 colours the connotations you would get is girly which is what I was aiming for, but I made these colours darker to give them more of an rock effect so it wasn’t so girly they would be put of off purchasing it. The primary image takes up most of the space on the front cover so the readers would become interested to see why the magazine chose to use this particular band.
The masthead is an very important aspect of the magazine as it tells the reader what the magazine is called, when placing the masthead on the magazine I put it classically at the top of the magazine above the primary image. I made the masthead stand out by using a white colour for it, so that it would stand out being placed on top of a dark purple background and the font being bulky would also make it stand out. The actors in the primary image were wearing a mixture of dark and light clothes which contrasted well with the dark purple back ground, but when finding a colour in which the reader could see the cover lines when they are placed over the picture was rather difficult as I had to keep within the colour scheme I had chosen. When writing the cover lines I tried to make them as interesting as I could by making them sound exciting and using explanation marks.
When planning the primary image I had many ideas that I thought would work for the magazine and I tried each idea I had. I had to take in consideration what the actors would be wearing, the lighting and body language, as these are the main things that reader will notice when looking at a picture. I thought through the main image quite carefully, and it took me many attempts to get my image perfect.
After taking photos of my actors in 3 different positions I decided on a “V” shape formation, I put the only boy in the middle of the two girls as I felt it would involve the reader as he was looking into the camera so it looks as if he is looking to the audience. With the two girls leaning towards the boy makes the girls I used a mid shot portrait, as this looked best when put on the front cover. The two girls were standing beside him leaning against him shows that they are in power to him and make them look just as important as the boy in the middle.
In my contents I done an editors say in which the contents was a definition of ‘fearless’. The language used throughout the magazine was informal so that when the target audience would read it they could relate to it. Although I did not use slang words it was just informal language used.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
When begin to construct my magazine I learnt many technologies from this experience. Before starting this project I would never have known how to work fireworks and how to edit pictures using it. When learning how to use fireworks I found it frustrating at time but I soon learned why on how to use the tools quickly and easily. For me I think found the hardest part trying to get all the text and images in the right place I found it very fiddly for me to do also I found cutting around the picture one of the hardest things to do I found this too rather fiddly as I wanted my picture to look as professional as it could by cutting around the background that I did not need. I found the easiest part was to put the text in place, although as I said it was hard to get it in the perfect place and finding the font to work for the magazine was also one of the easiest parts once I had an idea in mind of what I wanted it to look like. When constructing the contents and double page for my magazine I used publisher. Using publisher at first I found hard but I picked it up quickly, I found the colour schemes and layouts very dated for what I wanted to do.
When I was planning my magazine I researched a lot of other magazines but I did not plan it on paper at all well and now I wish I did as looking back I think It would have been easier for me to see what I needed to do and how it would look to the human eye not just in my head
I think the easiest part for me was to create the contents page and the double page spread as it was not a fiddly as the front cover and I had had previous experience of using publisher so this was easier for me where as most people had found fireworks easier as they had used this programme before I had never used fireworks and found it hard at first but soon found it easy to cope with.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
On the fount cover of the magazine I used an imagae of young teenages to attract that particular social group, i also used mainly girls in the image. To attract the audience i wanted i made my models use gutiars to represent the type of audience who would be intrested in "rock" music. The chloths they are also wearing is not the type of clothes that teenages listening to hip hop would wear, so i chose the actors to wear chlothes to represent the particualr social group they are from.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When looking back at the preliminary task I believe I have made a lot more progression in taking pictures, in my preliminary task I had trouble with take a portrait image as when I took the picture I cut hands out. In the main task I made sure that the picture taking was not as bad as when I first took picture back in the preliminary task.
I also developed choosing colour schemes to attract target audiences.
Not only have I learnt how to use editing programmes correctly and easily I have also learnt how to spend my time more as I had to plan when I’m doing things in order to give me time to edit if it had not gone to how I had seen it I’m my head.
Giving my draft in to my teacher my teacher pointed things out that I had never noticed and this gave me and advantage to improve and make it better than it was before. I had to change my picture as the lighting was no the best and change the colour scheme as I was not comfortable with it and felt it was not good at all and my teacher fully agreed and helped me to pick a colour scheme suited for my magazine.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media magazine that I have produced uses develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products on the market. I have included conventions that you would see on a magazine such as cover lines and primary and secondary images and mastheads on the front cover. I have kept to the forms and conventions by keeping the colour scheme the same on the front cover, contents page and the double page spread. When designing my magazine I had wanted to also challenge the forms and conventions to make my magazine different and more appealing to the target audience, I tried to challenge them in much as I could by having the mast head and primary and secondary images in my own style but keeping the main things a magazine would need the same for example price, date and barcode.
To create an idea of what magazines should look like I did a lot of research by looking at types of magazines that I believe if on the market would be competition to mine. When researching these magazines I also took in their ideas and styles to inspire me, such things as advertisements also influenced my magazine. I had to take in consideration the types of adverts seen in my magazine that would represent the readers for example the advertisements in NME magazine was for products such as mobile phones companies and typical things for teenage and people in their early twenty’s. Where as the advertisements in Metal hammer was for alcohol and games for over 18’s this tells me the magazine would be read by people over the age of 18 so and older audiences. The connotations behind these images tell me that the audience would be an older type for Metal hammer as they are targeting people over the age of 18 where as NME is advertising for universal products such as phone companies and music stores. I have tried to keep my magazine to the forms and conventions that you would see in a regular magazine but I have also tried to make them different for reader to be attracted by to by.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The media magazine I produced is targeted for readers around the age of 16 to early twenty’s no real ethnicity, but I have tried to targeted more of the gender of girls as when I was reaching different magazines I found that the type of music genre, Rock/Alternative does not really advertise for girls it is more of a masculine market. Targeting mainly girls is different from magazines in the genre of music on the market at the present moment. I’m trying to create a new image and interest for girls who listen t this music. I will market mainly girl rock bands and encourage girls to be inspired to get into this genre and create their own bands. I also want to make bands in the Alternative genre more known such as unsigned bands, and get the readers to put forward their own bands for other readers to listen. When having unsigned bands featured I will also be featuring the mainstream bands in the magazine as you can see on the front cover by using a band I would like to believe are a mainstream artist. Using young adults in the band would intrigue the normal teenagers that would read this magazine and that would be interested to read about music created by people the same age as them.
The magazine that I have created will help these girls become a signed act if they would like to and encourage them to follow their dream if they wish to do so.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I would like a big institution to distribute my magazine as there would be more support behind it to publish it, the company would also have previous experience from when they have produced other magazines. I also think it would be appropriate for a large institution as the magazine genre is not really taking a risk; I am just targeting a different type of audience to the magazines already on the market. To be able to adversities the magazine there would not be a problem with money as it being produced by such a large company and they would have the money to do such things.
When having to advertise the magazine I have produced it would have to be advertised on TV channels that my target audience be watching such as “Q “Scuzz” and “MTV hits” although this is not a spefic genre related channel it will occasionally have rock/ alternative bands playing on there and it would broaden the target audience. I would also like to advertise it on the music channels, “Kerrang” and “NME” but they are well known industries that already have their own magazines and would most likely seeing my magazine as a threat therefore not advertise my magazine but they would be the kind of channels I would advertise them on. I would also try and take advertising my magazine on the radio on stations that again my target audience would be listening to such as Xfm and Virgin radio. When advertising in print I would like it to be advertised in places such as train stations and in the entertainment section of a newspaper.
How did you attract/address your audience?
When designing my magazine I had to think about how I would get the attention of the reader’s eye. I used 3 main colours, them being purple white and pink. Looking at them 3 colours the connotations you would get is girly which is what I was aiming for, but I made these colours darker to give them more of an rock effect so it wasn’t so girly they would be put of off purchasing it. The primary image takes up most of the space on the front cover so the readers would become interested to see why the magazine chose to use this particular band.
The masthead is an very important aspect of the magazine as it tells the reader what the magazine is called, when placing the masthead on the magazine I put it classically at the top of the magazine above the primary image. I made the masthead stand out by using a white colour for it, so that it would stand out being placed on top of a dark purple background and the font being bulky would also make it stand out. The actors in the primary image were wearing a mixture of dark and light clothes which contrasted well with the dark purple back ground, but when finding a colour in which the reader could see the cover lines when they are placed over the picture was rather difficult as I had to keep within the colour scheme I had chosen. When writing the cover lines I tried to make them as interesting as I could by making them sound exciting and using explanation marks.
When planning the primary image I had many ideas that I thought would work for the magazine and I tried each idea I had. I had to take in consideration what the actors would be wearing, the lighting and body language, as these are the main things that reader will notice when looking at a picture. I thought through the main image quite carefully, and it took me many attempts to get my image perfect.
After taking photos of my actors in 3 different positions I decided on a “V” shape formation, I put the only boy in the middle of the two girls as I felt it would involve the reader as he was looking into the camera so it looks as if he is looking to the audience. With the two girls leaning towards the boy makes the girls I used a mid shot portrait, as this looked best when put on the front cover. The two girls were standing beside him leaning against him shows that they are in power to him and make them look just as important as the boy in the middle.
In my contents I done an editors say in which the contents was a definition of ‘fearless’. The language used throughout the magazine was informal so that when the target audience would read it they could relate to it. Although I did not use slang words it was just informal language used.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
When begin to construct my magazine I learnt many technologies from this experience. Before starting this project I would never have known how to work fireworks and how to edit pictures using it. When learning how to use fireworks I found it frustrating at time but I soon learned why on how to use the tools quickly and easily. For me I think found the hardest part trying to get all the text and images in the right place I found it very fiddly for me to do also I found cutting around the picture one of the hardest things to do I found this too rather fiddly as I wanted my picture to look as professional as it could by cutting around the background that I did not need. I found the easiest part was to put the text in place, although as I said it was hard to get it in the perfect place and finding the font to work for the magazine was also one of the easiest parts once I had an idea in mind of what I wanted it to look like. When constructing the contents and double page for my magazine I used publisher. Using publisher at first I found hard but I picked it up quickly, I found the colour schemes and layouts very dated for what I wanted to do.
When I was planning my magazine I researched a lot of other magazines but I did not plan it on paper at all well and now I wish I did as looking back I think It would have been easier for me to see what I needed to do and how it would look to the human eye not just in my head
I think the easiest part for me was to create the contents page and the double page spread as it was not a fiddly as the front cover and I had had previous experience of using publisher so this was easier for me where as most people had found fireworks easier as they had used this programme before I had never used fireworks and found it hard at first but soon found it easy to cope with.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
On the fount cover of the magazine I used an imagae of young teenages to attract that particular social group, i also used mainly girls in the image. To attract the audience i wanted i made my models use gutiars to represent the type of audience who would be intrested in "rock" music. The chloths they are also wearing is not the type of clothes that teenages listening to hip hop would wear, so i chose the actors to wear chlothes to represent the particualr social group they are from.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When looking back at the preliminary task I believe I have made a lot more progression in taking pictures, in my preliminary task I had trouble with take a portrait image as when I took the picture I cut hands out. In the main task I made sure that the picture taking was not as bad as when I first took picture back in the preliminary task.
I also developed choosing colour schemes to attract target audiences.
Not only have I learnt how to use editing programmes correctly and easily I have also learnt how to spend my time more as I had to plan when I’m doing things in order to give me time to edit if it had not gone to how I had seen it I’m my head.
Giving my draft in to my teacher my teacher pointed things out that I had never noticed and this gave me and advantage to improve and make it better than it was before. I had to change my picture as the lighting was no the best and change the colour scheme as I was not comfortable with it and felt it was not good at all and my teacher fully agreed and helped me to pick a colour scheme suited for my magazine.
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