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magazine covers

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My Magazine Cover: Title : Edge Genre : Music and fashion hybrid - links to music using the artist, artists costume will represent the fashion aspect Target audience : 18-25 - inner city Ideological focus -  laid back, relaxed, understated yet edgy key representations - young adult males, inner city Link to music video : Cover line linking to music video

Pen Portrait

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Name: Chris P Age: 18 Key ideology: Costume: urban -  hoodie, joggers - bright colours, fashion style: Edgy place of origin: UK inner city

Magazine pre production

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Fader Layout - simple lack of text, one main image - minimalistic  lack of lexis - may seem exclusive only people who know of the artist or magazine will know about what type of context Celebrity as main image - mid shot, blue hoodie contrasts with background colour, focus on Tyler the Creator over anything else Bold masthead - the white contrasts to background colours making it stand out  "THE NOW ISSUE" - Its current, modern small text - The date of issue and their website, advertising their brand identity and direct mode of address to audience making them look up the website  The main focus on Tyler, The Creator suggests to the audience what the magazine is about as well as the type of magazine maybe focusing on: hip hop/ rap, artists, fashion and appealing to inner city teens  fdb mise en scene- variety of colours - The artists outfit fits in with the variety of colours in the background which is a corner shop. Bright, contrasting and...

Mock preperation

Component 1A Ideology: Thoughts, opinions or beliefs In media products, what constructs ideologies? Media language (shot types, camera angles) Who constructs ideologies? Producer Why do producers construct and encode ideologies? They are getting across their ideologies to the audience to manipulate the audience Th ideology of riptide: Deliberately confusing The ideology of formation: Embracing your roots Racism Slavery Hurricane Katrina Include: - Media language - Theorists Media language: Barthes - Semiotic codes - proairetic, hermenuitic and symbolic codes used to create meaning Levi - Strauss - Binary opposition/structuralism  - night and day, something cant exist without the other thing Representation: Hall - representation/stereotypes  - Re-presentation of a group in society through media codes Gauntlett - Identity - Audience can pick and mix an ideology to suit them best Van Zoonen - Male Gaze/feminist theory - Women are placed in the ...

Music Video

Regulations - Must complete an individual cross-media production - Apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework 1. Create an original music video to promote the new artist or band (3 - 3 1/2 minutes) 2. At least 2 filming locations 3. Wide range of camera shots, angles and movement to interpret the music and lyrics of a song 4. Shots of artist or band to establish a clear identity/ image 5. Performance footage  (rehearsal and/or live and/or lip synced) 6. Representations of at least one social group 7. Clear structure with an element of narrative 8. Every shot needs to be in focus 9. Editing of original footage to the music track 10. Graphics depicting the original name of artist or band and title of the track How to get an A - use media language to demonstrate intertextuality or generic hybridity - Convey a complex representation of a social group using media language - Subvert and challenge typical representational stereotypes - present an ...

Formation - Beyonce

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Conflict in Formation : Conflict with the law - Mise en scene - her on top of the police car- Symbolises rebellion with the law Intertextual conflict - Police persecution of black people  Hanging out of car, conflicts with Beyonce's calm facial expression Contrast between poor, dilapidated neighbourhood and rich antebellum house - Mise en scene - Antebellum dress, dressed like a slave owners wife yet she is a BME signifies cultural appropriation but also demonstrates Beyonce's power over the past  High key spotlight in empty swimming pool, shorts, crop tops, 70's loose afros and librarian glasses  Context:  Formation is the lead single for the album Lemonade The music video was released with the song- directed by Melina Masoukas Won a Clio award Video is set against the backdrop of the flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the associated racial tension in America   How does movement encode meaning in formation? ...

Anaconda, Gucci Gang, Formation

What is representation : - How a producer represents an issue, an event, a group of people or a place - It allows people a way of making sense of the world self fulfilling prophecy Anaconda - Nicki Minaj  - Representation of Black women - BME (black minority ethnic) - long shot, revealing costumes which represents black women as being sexualised - Long shot, high angle - revealing costume, sexualised position - Mise en scene - Jungle represents black women are wild and uncivilised - Representation of a stereotypical black womens body - she adopts the stereotypical housewife role in the kitchen but she subverts it as she is messy and messing about - Bananas and cream suggests black women have a high sex drive Gucci Gang - LIL Pump - Representation of young Americans - Mise en scene of Tiger - lil pump shouldn't be messed with - ethnic minorities are aggressive - Mise en scene - in school shows they are rebelious - Binary opposition of the Tiger walking down a scho...