Mood Board

Reflection on mood board

Creating this mood board really helped me gain knowledge on what I would need to include in my tour poster. I gave me a better idea of the Indie Pop style. From making this mood board I will now  use bright colours (to grad the audiences attention), an unusual style and bold text (to make it interesting), words to make the poster desirable and layers to create action. It has given me ideas of ways I could lay out my poster and make it eye catching.

My tour poster

Feedback

Reflection

This task really helped me gain more knowledge on Photoshop and in design. At first I didn’t really understand how to use either of the apps. However towards the end of this task I started feeling more comfortable. This will really help in Media in the future especially with my music magazine because I now know what features I need to include in a music based media. For example, tours, dates, locations. I think I will also choose Indie for my magazine which means this has helped me know which colours, poses and text fit in with the genre.

My mock-up front page:

This is my mock-up front page. I was given the front cover on a magazine to try and imitate.

This is the original magazine cover I was given.

Review:

During this task I have learnt many useful things that will help me with my magazine. In design is new to me but after a couple of attempts I got there and learnt how to use it. I also learned how to do the magazine features including masthead, cover lines, main cover star, etc.

Compare and contrast:

I think there are many improvements I could do to my version of the magazine cover. For example,  I couldn’t find the original image and therefore had to find another to use. This image wasn’t great quality but I needed a mid- shot to be able to replicate the structure of the cover. I also couldn’t find the exact cover I was given to copy and therefore means that the wording is slightly different from mine. Some of the font isn’t the exact same as i struggled to get it identical.

I think that I did well on trying to replicate the structure/ layout of the magazine cover.  I also found inserting the text and images fairly easy as well as sizing everything.

Overall I really enjoys this task because I learned many new things that can help me in the future within media.

These are some videos I found that will help me in the future when I am next using indesign.

Contact sheet

These are all the images that my group took. We tried to use a variety of different camera angles to portray different meanings. I think that  my group did well. However, we could taken a lot more images and used a larger variety of camera angles to portray many different story lines. There a many different emotions shown in just these 25 images.

9 best images

These are my 9 favourite images out of the 25 we took. I chose these because they all have a clear narrative. These 9 images also show a variety of different camera angles. For example, the long shot of Ben walking shows us he’s lonely and on his own. The high angle on the stairs portrays vulnerability. Each of these images leave us with a good idea about what is going on.

Some angles/ shots we used:

• Long- shot – this implies the person in the image is isolated/ lonely.
• Close-up – this can be used to show how important the thing that you have focused on is.
• High angle – this shows vulnerability because you are making them look like the smaller person.
• Low angle – this makes the person in the image seem important and dominant.
• We also used mid-shot. However, for a mid-shot photo it doesn’t create such a strong meaning.

Although these camera shots create meanings, we still have to think about body language, facial expression, posture, proxemics and gesture. This is because although the angles create a meaning/ feeling, it doesn’t create a story. The way the person in the photo is positioned gives us a story.

  Review:

During this task I have learned how much impact the camera angle has on the narrative of an image. Its not always just about the Mise En Scene. Therefore, in my media work over the next couple of years I will be sure to really think about which camera angle/ shot would be best to convey the meaning behind the image. It is a really good way to improve your creativity.

Mood Board

We were allocated our genre by picking it out a hat. My group chose Indie. After doing research we found out that there were different types of Indie music. Therefore, we chose Indie pop. As shown on the mood board we discovered that most Indie photos are aesthetic, fun and bright. The people also look very friendly, chilled back and quirky.

Most important MES conventions for the genre.

• Body language
• Props
• Costume
• Gestures

I think this because in the photos we found, whilst doing our research, the people were in quite relaxed, cool positions. Whilst most women in this genre had flowers in their hair and dressed in unique clothing, males had skateboards and wore baggy clothing (jeans and big jumpers).

The use of Mise En Scene in our genre (Indie) tells us it’s happy, fun, relaxed, unique, quirky. This is due to the make-up, hair, costumes, body language and costume. The Star image is that the people are young, friendly and quirky. A lot of the photos are heavily filtered to make all the vibrant colours pop. You will quite often find the colours clash. 

Post-It

In this image there are post-it notes stuck on Toby. These have different adjectives that people wrote on them of the first word that came to mind about how he looked. This meant that we could compare them to how we were wanting him to look so that he looked Indie.

The adjectives that were used to describe him were:

• Friendly
• Chilled
• Laid back
• Skater
• Reserved
• Relaxed

This means that we did well to convey the Indie Pop genre because these are the words that we used in our mood board.

Images

These are the photos that my group took for our Indie Pop genre. Toby wore baggy jeans, a baggy jumper and a bandana to represent this theme. We also chose these positions/ use of body language because they were similar to the images we found whilst doing our research.

Final image

I think this image will be my final picture. This is because it represents our genre in many ways.

• The picture is taken from low camera angle
• We have a skateboard as a prop
• He is wearing baggy jeans and a baggy jumper
• The bandana is used to add colour to his look
• He looks chilled out and friendly due to his facial expressions and body language

Review

This process has helped me gain some knowledge that will help me through the world of media in the next coupe of years. Doing a mood board was really useful. This is because it helped me get a feel for the style of music  and key points about our genre. Seeing all of these photos made us have a good idea of what we wanted our images to look like. I think our group did well at portraying Indie pop. However, there could have been some improvements such as: brighter/ more out there clothing and heavy filters.

The biggest thing I learned from this task is the importance of Mise En Scene. This is because without the skateboard and style of clothing in these images, they would just look like ordinary photos. However, with these characteristics it helps the audience know what genre we are trying to convey.  Therefore, in my future media work I will know to focus more on Mise En Scene.

This is the poster I chose to annotate. I chose this one because it has a lot of characteristics which represent Ariana Grande is a sophisticated artist.

Looking at this has helped represent what a good poster looks like. Therefore, this will help me in the future tasks (magazine).  This is because I now know how much Mise En Scene impacts the story of your media. Without Mise En Scene in this poster you would never be able to tell what sort of artist she is without listening to her music.

Going forward, I now know to use the correct costumes, makeup, hair, colour, text, images, etc to create the correct narrative.

The colour, image, text and words are extremely important in media because they help enforce the image/ idea you are trying to get across.

The Mise-En-scene for this tour poster is makeup, colour, and the floral theme. This portrays her elegance.