This week was all about communicating Mise-en-scene we were put into groups and given a genre of music to interpret. My group got the genre rap. The moodboard down below shows everything we would associate with rap and all the connotations of rap stars. We included the most important conventions for the genre. Conventions is a word to describe those expectations, commonalities of the genre.

Next we had to dress up one member of the group in the style of that genre. We did a photo shoot with the person and do some stereotypical poses of that music genre. We wanted to give off a rebellious feel and make the audience viewing the photos intimidated. After that the rest of the class had to give connotations on each of the different styles and put them on the person dressed up in the music genre. We took photos of that as well.

Look at the photos we took!

This will help with my music magazine because it has helped me to understand the different styles and poses I could interpret. I got to see how I make something my own and make it original. You can use Mine-en-scene to convey meaning in lots of different ways. For example:

• a story
• an image
• an idea  

This will have a big impact on my own planning and research because I know that I have to connect with my audience on a personal level and get them to feel different emotions by just looking at the cover of my magazine. I realize that I will not only have to use the music genre to make the magazine but that the magazine has to embody all of that specific music genre. Everything in my magazine has to correlate with each other and nothing can be put there for no reason. The audience said I looked intimidating and wealthy which is exactly the kind of look I wanted to pull off since most rappers today look that way. The audience responded very positively to the rap star we made. They were intimidated by it and thought that the rapper looked wealthy which was the response we were looking for.