News Letter

my media prezi evaluation

http://prezi.com/hdfpjz_rhpkt/as-media-evaluation/

Below there are the significant stages of my photoshop front cover

Double Page Spread Finished

My Contents Finished

Front Cover Completed

Photo Practice

Photo Practice

Rock & Roll Mood Board

Genre Choice

I have chosen Rock & Roll as my genre because its a genre of music i love a listen to in everyday life, it also gives a broad choice of music as it fits into most other genres like post punk or indie rock for example

2nd Cover Analysis

St Ambrose Analysis

Deyes Newsletter Analysis

Feminism

A female theorists called Laura Mulvey had the theory that the male gaze in media takes preference over the woman's gaze and that the perception of the audience she characters different in the media for example actresses are seen as sex symbols. Mulvey also believed  that this was mens fault as she thought media was created by men for men therefore a female actor would be seen as a object not a actress. In modern day this theory is being tested as more and more woman are getting recognized for talent and the going average day look is changing for example fashion icon and rockstar Beth Dito and actress Meryl Streep.

Media Vocabulary

The following shall be a list of media terms i shall use in my blog analysis in particular-

Puff:- promotional techniques used to draw readers into other aspects of what is inside the magazine

Pug:- normally at the top of the magazine containing the price often refereed to as the ears of the magazine

Buzz Words:- attracting words that draw the readers attention in order to see the magazine for example 'exclusive'

Anchorage Text:- the positioning of the text often anchoring around the all important picture

Banner:- text standing out against the background

Masthead:- title of the magazine

Contents analysis

1st front cover analysis

My photoshop practice

Cohan Moral Panic

Moral panic is: A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges as a threat to social values and interests.

The mass meida like to stair up, emerge and style moral panic to its audiance, people with social power are best example of this e.g. bishops,editors and political figures and MPs

Historical Perspective

·         Video nasties 1980’s

·         Video games 1990’s – now

·         Internet (IM, SNS), 2000 

 

Features of moral panic

 Concern- behavour in a person/group useally threatend

Volatility-short massive panics that are very short lived

Hostillity- useally towards a person or people known as 'folk devils' construted by the mass media and created as 'us' and 'them'

 

Information On Semiotics

Saussure

Saussure had a theroy about media texts, his theory was that everything has a sign for example the rain can repesent sadness or a missrible atmosphere. This is something we need to think about when analysisng media the message we offer like what people see and hear.

Denotation-Where is there

Conotation-What it suggests or means

Semiotics-The study of signs

Anything that is used to carry a meaning can be defined as a sign it could be a word, image or sound. Media texts are encoded by the producers and decoded by the audiance

Signifiers-Due to human nature we have to view signs for all distint meanings or parts

Polysemy-Media text can be seen as open or closed

Introduction to AS Media

For my AS media project design a music magazine and a school collage magazine. Firstly i am going to create the front cover of the magazine then move onto the contents page and a double page spread out of a chosen artist and the school.

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