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.