Our mood-board was based on the Pop genre, the pop genre has specific conventions that allow people to recognize the genre, for example pop has a tendency to use vibrant colours, the pop stars are usually constructed around a materialistic and fake persona.

The main elements of Mise-En-Scene used within the pop era are:

• colour and lighting
• facial expression and body language
• costume,hair and makeup

Colour and lighting gives the pop stars a sense of importance, to present them as unique, for example in the photo of Ariana Grande she’s wearing a pink dress, this presents her as innocent and natural. Whereas the photo of Bruno Mars in his black shirt connotes a bold and serious person with a formal persona.

Facial expression and body language can portray the stars in many diverse ways, for example: the older pop stars such as Tom Jones are seen as mature sophisticated stars whereas stars such as: One Direction are seen as young, free cheeky boys.

After creating the Mood boards we were equip with the intelligence and skill to try and create our own pop star using the conventions of a Pop singer, so we decided to dress Emilia in a bright adventurous and outstanding costume. The students then decoded her and the connotations Emilia was given were:

• Fun
• Colorful
• Cheerful
• Sassy
• Confident
• Quirky
• Superficial
• Materialistic
• Girly
• Obnoxious

This was the final photo that I decided to annotate, in this photo Emilia is portrayed as a glamorous, confident, materialistic pop star. The ideology of a pop star is that they are: young, fun, free people, in this image Emilia looks sassy.

The Mise-En-Scene used within this still is mainly focused around Colour, body language and facial expression. The colour shows that Emilia’s individualistic. Each colour has a connotation; pink suggesting she’s innocent where as the green implying she could be jealous and the blue portraying she’s somewhat sad. The tilt of the glasses connote she’s cheeky and disobedient.

This image is more significant then the others as it captures all the aspects of being a pop star from: cheekiness, to sophistication. The camera angle is a medium close-up this enables the audience to capture the pop stars emotions.

overall Mise-En-Scene is a vital part to a still image and can create many meanings and representations, it all depends on where everything is placed in the frame and how it is seen by the target audience.

My assignment was to annotate an album poster for a band/solo artist, the reason for this task was to reflect on how to design a poster that captures the correct target audience, the way this is done is by using the corresponding font that matches the genre of poster, colour also plays a big role in engaging the correct audience. 

We analysed all elements of Mise-En-Scene, these are:

• Colour and lighting
• setting
• props
• Facial Expression and Body Language
• Costume, Hair and Makeup

From this I am able to safely say that I am able to design and attractive magazine cover that uses the correct: codes, signs and symbols to convey meaning, so all the elements of Mise-En-Scene are crucial.