I was allocated a genre to research which was psychedelic rock. I found out that this included a great number of bright colours and a festival vibe. This is evident in my mood board with headbands, round glasses and tie-dye shirts. The man on my mood board stood very casually doing the peace sign gesture with a happy face, no makeup and slouched. This portrayed a cool and hipster vibe through the casual look which inferred that man was easy going and friendly with all the bright colours. Furthermore, the man seemed quite chilled and happy which fits the conventions of the commonalities of the genre as the different colours and symbols convey their love, peace, art and the different perceptions of the psychedelic culture.
Here is a picture of my model holding the connotations of a psychedelic rock person. They include: eccentric, energetic, natural and creative.
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Above you can see us models dressed in psychedelic rock. From our mood board, we learnt that we needed to wear lots of patterns and bold accessories, so we tried to recreate that.
This made us look full of energy and creativity which our audience thought as you can see from post-it picture before. A member of the audience believed we also looked eccentric and I think this is because of the many bold accessories like the flower glasses but also the colours and patterns standing out from the normal and plain styles. By our glance and posture through acting, we can create the atmosphere through our facial expressions, for example, ours looks very friendly and chill bringing out the energetic festival vibes.
I have chosen this image because I feel like it portrays all the attributes in the category psychedelic rock, which includes: a chilled, creative, friendly, eccentric and energetic vibe. This is evident as my audience chose these words to describe us as actors. I also like this image because I think we look chilled and cool like the psychedelic rocker in my mood board clearly presenting the stereotype.
The audience feedback process and design decisions impact my future magazine as it gives an insight to the different types of music and the styles within through the makeup, props, posture and the atmosphere presented. This is done to clearly portray the content within by first glance of the cover. This task helped by seeing the different types of music and the advertising and textual analysis of each genre,
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