Double page for music magazine

Final music magazine

Here is my final music magazine. I went with a bold title so that when it is on the shelves then the magazine will stand out from the rest because of it's bold title. I used photoshop for my photo. I found this quite hard to use because i haven't used it before. I had tot try and work out what each thing was used for. I made the photo quite light and sharp, so that it stands out and made sure the face was bold and bright. The face is also more focused on because i had put all my sub titles around the face and not on the face. I have gone for the same kind of layout that I used for my college magazine because I thought that worked really well.

Contents page for college magazine

Here I have done a contents page for my magazine. I have kept the same housestyle throughout. I have kept with the green and black colours.

My final college magazine

This is my final college magazine. I made sure that I kept the housestyle the same throughout the page, so that it looked more professional. I added the main conventions that you would usually see on the front cover of a magazine. For example the mast head, cover lines and a barcode. I then carried my housestyle through my contents page.

Sketch of College magazine

Here i have made a sketch of how i want my college magazine to look like. I have added two cover lines, to show what my main stories are going to be like. I have also put the mast head in as this is a main convention of a magazine obviously. The main image will also cover the whole magazine.

Mise en scene

Mise en scene is basically everything that is in the frame. What we see in what we are looking at. there are 5 different parts of the Mise en scene, and these are:

Setting and Props: These are what we see in each scene. What genre you see will depends on what props and settings you will see in the frame. For example if you was watching a horror film, you are most likely to see knives, axes, zombies etc. It is also likely to be set in a forest or haunted house.
Costume, hair and make-up: This is what the people look like within their character, also what they would be wearing. These all imply what the characters are like.
Body language and facial expressions: Facial expressions are a way of us telling what a person is thinking or how they are feeling at that point in time. And this is the same for body language. It shows how a person feels and also how two people feel about each other. If someones body language is shifty, this could mean that they have done something wrong. Can show the relationship between different people.
Lighting and colour: Lighting can be a way of showing us the main character and who the scene is focusing on. If the light is focused on one person it can show us the mood of the whole scene and how people are feeling towards one another. It can also highlight the importance of characters. The ones highlighted would be the ones that are most important at the time or even thoughout the film to show the personality of a character. If the light is always away from one person it could indicate that they are shy. Colour can show the different connotations of the story. If there is blue throughout, it could show coldness. this can also give a particular mood.
Positioning of characters/objects within the frame: The way in which characters are positions within the frame can help us indicate the importance of characters. It can be a way of helping us to understand the relationships between characters.

stereotypes-Misfits

There is a lot of stereotyping in Misfits. The whole series is about young teenagers who are doing community service. Whilst they are doing community service they manage to kill 2 of their probation workers. Misfits is very stereotypical because it shows that young people are doing bad and are rebels. Near enough every teenager that you see in this series are either smoking, drinking alcohol or doing something wrong in the eyes of the law. Each character has a stereotype aimed at them. Nathan is a cocky person who always causes mischief, the stereotype in this is mainly around the fact that young people are always doing something bad and that they are back chatting too. Curtis is the one who got put into community service for taking drugs, this is one stereotype. But he is also from a different ethnicity, this could also be seen as a stereotype. Simon is the quite one out of everyone but he is also strange, i think they added his character to Misfits because he is always called a 'freak'. Because he is strange people automatically think he is a freak, this is a main stereotype too. We then have Kelly who is very gobby and loud mouthed. she also wheres tracksuit bottoms and gels all of her hair back, the stereotypical name for her is a 'chav'. And finally we have Alisha, she is the pretty girl who can flutter her eyelides and get whatever she wants. From the way that she dresses and acts she is portaid as a 'slag'. Thoughout the whole series the characters live up to their own single stereotypes. See if you can put the name and the title i explained of them to the picture above?

Making meaning

Semiotics: This is a way of explaning how we make meanings.
Denotation: The meaning of the thing itself. For example if you look for the meaning of a word in the dictionary: The explantion of the word is the denotation.
Sign: the smallest single unit of meaning.
Connotation: Extra meaning to a word. For example the colour red could simbolise passion, love or blood.
Iconic Codes: Appears like the thing in itself.
Indexical Signs: Indirect signs that suggest what something means, acts as a que to existing knowledge.
Symbolic Codes: They act as signifiers. For example colours. The same as connotation, the colour red could simbolise passion or love.
Convention: Refers to the establised way of doing something.
USP: Unique selling point.
Superlative: This is the best of something. The best possible thing.

Lighting effects- Misfits

In our media lesson we have been watching Misfits. This is a programme about a bunch of teenagers who are doing probation work. We have been studing the way the directors have the lighting, camera angle and the way they put the characters forwards and each one of their personalities. Also how all of these are shown to the viewer. When something bad is going to happen or something important is going to happen, the light around the characters goes down and goes quite dark. And the characters are brightened up, to be shown more bold to the audience. An example of this is when the characters get electricuted by the lightening, all the light around then goes and the light is on them to focus the simbolisation of the effect of the light.

Representation of age.

We have been looking at the representation of age. how age is representation in TV programmes and films, and how each age is shown differently. One programme that I looked at was 'Monarch of the glen'. this was about a 16 year old girl who went to visit her Godfather for a week. During the week of stay, it was her birthday. She told everyone that she was going to be 18, but in fact she was only going to be 17. She was trying to act older than her age and was drinking alcohol illegally. This represents young people as the rebellious type. Where as it shows the older generations as the more sensible type of person. The older people were seen wearing suits and long dresses. More smart clothes than they younger generation.

contents page for college magazine

Here i have done a contents page for my college magazine. I done a contents page for this magazine because then it is a practise for when i have to do it for my music magazine. for ym contents page i have used the same theme all the way through. Which is green, i have used this colour throughout the magazine. I used it on my fromt cover, this is my main house style. I have also used the same font the whole way through too. This way it makes it look a bit more professional.

Representation- Masulinity and Femininity

A typical man is seen as the violent and as if they act like hooligans. Violent masculinity is now seen as the social and cultural norm. We feel like this is the norm because of the way the male gender is presented through the media.

We get these facts and figures because in some cases this is actually true and this is then proceeded through to the media and is then overrated and magnetized to make is seem like everyone of these males are the same. We are also taught through media that many men hide behind a mask. They show on the outside that they are tough and can stand up for themselves but on the inside this is not true. They really are sensitive. For instance, this is shown in the movie the wizard of Oz. The wizard has a strong and powerful voice showing that the wizard is superior. But when he is then uncovered he is in fact a coward.

In the media masculinity is seen and represented as more powerful and ruling than femininity.

A typical female in the media is seen in two different ways; one being that they are kind and caring. They are put across as soft and will do anything for people. The other being that woman are seen as ‘whores’, that they will put themselves forward for men. In some ways this characteristic can be seen as a dominant woman. That they would be the upstanding and powerful ones. But in other ways this could be seen as they get told what to do, going back to the powerful male being in control of woman.

The differences between femininity and masculinity put forward through the media is that men are shown as the violent and more out front personality, whereas woman are shown to be the more petite personality. That men are more superior over woman. This could also be seen as a similarity too. Where men are put forward as dominant and powerful, if you are represented as a woman in media to be a ‘sex symbol’ you would be seen as dominant and powerful.

The attitudes of how masculinity and femininity shown has changed overtime. Nowadays there is more in media of woman being the more dominant type, whereas before it was shown as the male was always in control. They would always be in charge. For example, there has only ever been one woman prime minister in Britain and this is only in the recent years. This is because in the media is shown that males are more in control, so people would believe that a woman couldn’t control a country. But over the years this has changed, changing people’s minds.

Termonology

In last lesson we learned different termonology in media. The term Horizontal Integration is a type of ownership and control. This is where a product is sold in numerous markets. This happens when a firm has either been taken over or is merged with another company which is in the same industry as them. The term Conglomerates is vertually the same as the above, it is when two companies are joined together. Consolidates- This is when a larger company buys a smaller company. Convergence is where there is the bringing together or different technologies. You also have Vertical Integration this is when a company produces their won type of product, they are united through a common owner. the term Intergrated is the bringing together of things, for example having a film and then bringing out a comic of it. Mergers is when two companies become one. Synergy is basically the same as mergers, its the bringing together of two companies to become one. Miniturusation is when you would use a phone instead of a computer, if you was using the internet for example. The term Monopoly in media is when a cetain person has a lot of companies in the same sort of market. When you use websites and videos and picture this is called Multimedia. Portable is linked to miniturisation, a phone is a lot more portable to carry around that a whole computer.

The 8 basic compositions.

Here is the 8 basic compositions;

One dominant focal point- This is where is one main image as

the compositions. It can float or rest in its positions, and it is

free of all sides. There is only one main focal point to the viewer.

Two cominant focal points- This is where there are two main

images present to the viewer. The compositions divides the

viewers attentions to two different focal points in two eye-fixes.

Structure- In this one, the compositions relies on a table or

grid to help its 'structure'. You can add space rules and also add

borders to the composition and this can add benefit to this as

you can add extra things.

Negative/Positive- High contrast is the main characteristic of

this composition. This is used when a picture relies highly on 

the background  for its shape edges. Negative and positive

can also sometimes give the viewer a optical illusion.

Pattern- In a pattern composition the viewer is bombarded

with many pictures/visual units. This is usually used so that

there is a equal distribution to the viewers eye. This usually

touches a minimum of these sids per image.

Movement- This is the use of gradiation, in a gradual process to create a sense of movement. This gives the impression that the images are moving from one area to another. It is usually created by distinctive flowing on a curving eye-path.

Frame- This has multiple visuals, but they are arranged that it spotlights one area of the picture. The standard format forms a border around the area of interest.

Perspective- The impact of perspective composition is the sense of depth. The designer achieves the illusion with a two dimensional image but makes it look like 'through a window' that it is three dimensional.

In class we got a handout about the Graphic Design Code.
This will help when designing my magazine because i will be able to look at the different compositions and colouring of of the basic elements. And this will give me a basic idea, and also help me to take into practise of each of these ready for my final magazine.

Front cover magazine conventions analized.

Here i have analized the magazine 'LOOK'. I looked at the main conventions of a typical magazine. Here we can see the mast head which is at the top of the page. There is also a main picture of Cheryl Cole, she is the main person that they are talking about in the magazine and they have also interviewed her. This is the reason for them putting her as the main image on the front cover. They have used the same colour scheme throughout the front cover. This magazine is aimed at young woman and people who are aspirers, thus the use of the 'girly colours' of white and baby pink.

Genre explained.

When there is a group of media text, and they have similar forms, structures and pattern elements, then this is when it might be called 'Genre'.
These certain things will share a common structural element. For instance, the genre 'War' may have the same typical elements in settings. They would be in a warmine, in vietnam or in world war 2. They would all have the same background setting.
Genre represents a way of classifying ways into distinct types. This way people who like a specific genre can look for that to find what they want. Genre is also a good way for splitting audiences into demographics (age, sex, gender, race).
Genres are often broken down into sub-genres. These are where there is a specific genre, for example romance. The sub-genres for this could be romanic drama, romantic comedies, and sexual erotic films. People can start to become 'bored' with a specific genre that they watch. To try and prevent this they try and blend genre together. These types of mixtures of more than one genre are called hybrids.
The common genre type elements are known as conventions. These are known as the standard way of doing things, this has developed over time and from this, this is what audiences expect to form from genres.

Presentation on gender and age.

Here i have done a presentation on how the creators of a magazine choose their audiences and ages to their magazine. Here i have the heat magazine, and i have explains the gender and age that it aims for.

Presentation on advert and genre.

Here i have a presentation i done about a advert that was in a magazine. The advert is advertising a perfume, i found it in a magazine that was aimed for woman who cared about their image a lot. This is quite a typical advert to be in magazine aim at this genre of people.

Genre Spider Diagram