2011-12 LMED1 Miriam

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Preliminary Task:Front Cover FINAL

Pleliminary task: Front Cover & Contents Page Mock Ups

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Preliminary Task: Front Cover Conventions Diagram

Pleliminary task: Front Cover Textual Analysis

Denotation: The Magazine shows a man with books in his hands, law, business and society books.
Connotation: A student with his subject books in his hand which links to education. It represents a smart student judging by his subject books He looks happy which may suggest he’s happy about school.
Characters/Costume: The subject’s nationality seems to be maybe from the Caribbean judging by the sub-headings across the page ‘dancehall’, ‘jump up & wave’ Jamaica to be prises as the sub-headings mention places such as ‘Kingston’, ‘Negril’ . The young man that looks smart-casually dressed, this gives an impression that he’s serious about he’s education, books in his hands. He’s jewellery isn’t excessive.
NVC/Props: The young man is holding books, his stance seems positive. He’s facial expression seems very innocent, he smile isn’t complete but that’s not because he is unhappy but I think to give an innocent look to him and to education. . He’s wearing a cross chain which may mean he’s religious meaning he has good morals.
Lighting: The photo seems very professional. The lighting is on the subject, it’s almost like he has the spotlight. The background being black also makes him stand out more. There’s no setting because they want the audience to concentrate more about the subject
Masthead: The colour scheme of ‘college lifestyle’ is a yellowish and white so it can stand out from the dress code of the subject, black and white. Also the Title ‘college’ is behind the subject, so people assume that it is the word college, since it’s such a common word and it goes with the content of the front page. The distribution season is noted on the top, ‘summer 2009’ this shows the magazine is distributed every term. The yellowish colour scheme goes with the season ‘summer’ end of school theme. At the bottom of the front cover of the magazine the bar code is displayed with the price of the magazine, the price is shown its worth’s in American Dollars and Canadian Dollars

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Induction: Movie Poster Textual Analysis

Denotation: A man standing in the middle of a cave

Connotation: An archaeologist, who is in a cave, as part as he's adventure. The main thing in his adventure being the skull behind him

Anchorage: The font suggests it’s old. The title 'Indiana Jones' is written in a cartoony form, which suggests that the man is a character.

Costume: Indiana Jones is dressed in an old fashioned archaeologist uniform; the khaki uniform and hat suggest he's in a safari location.

Props: The whip is a signature weapon/item, and so is the gun. The gun suggests that this is an action film.

Setting: The setting is gloomy and it seems as if he's in cave which is not unusual for an archaeologist, however, the cave doesn’t seem like an ordinary cave, this creates suspense to the audience, there's a fiery skull behind him. This image maybe taken from the film itself as a 'sneak peak' for the audience it also reiterates the title; 'and the kingdom of crystal skulls.' Also one each side of the poster seems like a foreign hieroglyphics which suggest and gives the impression that 'Indiana Jones' is in a foreign country.

NVC: The NVC of the character is very confidence, he's standing feet arms width apart, and he’s shoulders are broad, he's fist are clenched. He looks like and alpha-male. He's facial impressions looks as if he was running, he's mouth is slightly open, he's face looks sweaty, this shows he's been doing some hard either running, fighting ECT, nevertheless, his stance still seems confident.

Lighting: The Posters lighting is produced by the fiery skull at the back of the man, this effect makes the setting seem like he's in a cave.

Font: The Font of the title 'Indiana Jones' seems cartoony, similar to the Flintstones title font. The font suggest the film will be family friendly. Whereas the sub-title's font is written with a matrix font, the types of font’s spies/special agents use as if Indian Jones' on a mission to the kingdom of skulls.

A few of his top buttons have been left undone maybe to either suggest that it’s either hot where he is located or to show the hard work also with his sleeves; they're rolled up which may indicate that he maybe doing hard work.

Induction:Re-Creation of a Movie Magazine Front Cover

I found this piece of work very exciting and fun since I've never used photoshop before, but after some basic intrusctions from Mr.Haylock and a few hours of exploring, I personally think I've done quiet a good job even though its not perfect. I did find things very hard but then I learnt how to do certain things like 'crop images', 'font channges', 'copy and pasting' which made it easier to use,I also manage to stay with the colour scheme and work around the background image using the majic wond tool etc. I used different shapes to mimic the original copy. To improve next time, I could download fronts from the internet so that it can be more of a match, I could alway work more on the space, and be more aware of the background image and how the size of front could make a huge differences.