Mission Statement
‘Simply Pop is one of the top magazines for those who have a love of pop music. It’s a fresh and interesting magazine written for teenage girls that see everything to do with pop as a part of their life. We provide our readers with the chance to keep up to date with all the chart music and artists that interest them. This magazine will recognize the great success of pop artists, and celebrate the fact that pop music is one of the most popular music genres today. Our big objective is to engage our audience with the magazine and include the artists that they love and recognize to ensure our audience has a sense of belonging and interest.
My Brand Values
The aim for Simply Pop is to create confidence for young teenage girls through music and interviews with popular stars who teenagers may relate to. We interview young artists to inspire the younger generation to become more fearless and work hard. Also by providing the readers with the chance to keep up to date with all the chart music and artists that interest them aiming to keep on top of trends and feature the popular artists that are looked up to most recently.
I learned about…
- Mise En Scene is an essential element of how meaning is made in Media. Every costume, hair style, lighting state, location, prop, accessory, posture, gesture, facial expression is there for a reason – to tell a story, convey an idea and an image. The essential components for Mis-en-scene are:
- Costume
- Lighting
- Acting
- Make up/Hair
- Props
- Setting
- The Reception Theory is written by Stuart Hall and describes where ideologies meet, meaning is made:
- Producers Ideology (encodes)
- Audience’s (decodes)
Music which is:
- Preferred- audience accepts the values
- Negotiated- audience accepts some of the values
- Oppositional- the audience rejects the values
I will encode all the elements my audience wants to see on the cover as they will then decode it in order to make my magazine perfect for the target audience and not be the opposite to what they are looking for, therefore not being successful.
- When learning to use a DSLR camera I learnt how to produce a successful photograph by manually controlling the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. I took practice photos for a music magazine by keeping in mind the composition and positioning of my photos, by trying out different angles. We learnt that the camera is analysed by the framing and movement. Framing is the camera’s distance from the subject or camera’s angle in relation to the subject. Examples of distance is extreme longshot, medium longshot, midshot, close ups. There a multiple types of shot which have specific functions within a TV or a programme. In terms of movement we tried out methods of pan, tilt, zoom, and ped.
I will use all of my knowledge to create a successful photo shoot where my model is using mise-en scene to portray her character of a female fearless star. My knowledge from my camera will help me to create the perfect lighting using flash photography as well as the settings:
- Select M on the dial
- ISO = 100 (400 max)
- Aperture (f stop) F8.0
- Shutter Speed 1/160
This will give me the best lighting focused on my model as well as manually using the focus on my model.