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By using different camera angles we can communicate a narrative and represent multiple stories. On each of the images there are #’s these are denotations and connotations and the name of the camera shot.

The name we give the different types of camera shots comes from the distance we take the photo, e.g longshot, midshot, close up, and extreme close up. It can also be  up to the angle and framing you position the camera, e.g  high angle low angle and what you can see through the frame in the image.

From the knowlege I have gained from this task I now know how important mis-en-scene is and how powerful it is in getting a story and narrative across to the audience just by using props, make-up, costumes,lighting and setting. I now understand the use of body language and facial expressions are also important to get aross a clear storyline/narrative.By gaining this knowlege I can now gain a deeper undertsanding of the media world and add it into my magezine. Using mes-on-scene as well a variety of camera angles will improve the quality of my images and will therefore target my audience at a higher level.

In this task we created a mood board for an assigned genre of music, as you can tell from the images my assigned genre of music was pop. In this mood board shown above I have included pop singers and idols, images that are surrouding pop (such as a heart as majority of pop songs are about love), as well as words associated with pop music  (such as produced).  So the conventions of the pop genre are colours, apppearing as the main charcter and bringing together colour palletes and costuimes to compliment the lighting or purpose of the shoot.

On the post it notes are written connotations by our classmates  adjectives describing how our model makes people feel or how he looks.  On the four post it notes is written  “vein” “young” “normal” “welcoming”  These are all connotations of the pop star.

This is my image that represents one of my classmates as a pop artists. We took inspiration from Justin Bieber and other famous pop singers. We wanted the model Issac to really represent the pop culture and what pop artists are wearing as well as what they look like in todays society.

We took our ideas from the moodboard and used the appropriate mise en scene as we wanted the props costumes and lighting to be perfect.  I love how the light bounces off the backdrop and creates a shadow effect onto the pop artist.

I chose this image because I found this image was the most eye catching and was the image that really sends the genre of pop over the edge . Starts to challenge the conventions of the pop genre – he is less produced, manufactured and a little more relaxed.  The cap and glasses really help to bring in some colour to the image while also blendingwith the white shirt. The bracelets add a uniqie and edgy vibe to the pop image.

I now understand the importance of mis-en-scene in the media world and how many different ideas and steps go into creating an image that will be sucesul on my magazine and in the meduia world. Taking what I have learn in this shoot I will use everything i have learn from the colours that compliment eachother to the way the artist is posing.These things I will all take into considerations when creating a succesful media magazine.

In todays media tour posters are everywhere online, in the streets, billboards they are everywhere and they are all very different.  Every form of media has both denotations and  connotations.

All media have connotaions and denotations, denotations are the things that are in the media text such as text or images. Connototations you decode and destruct the connotations from the denotations and overall impact how the audience might persive the media. For example if I was to select the text as the denotation I could conntate by saying the media desinger uses bold and bright text to catch the audiences attention. You do the same thing with all forms of media such as this tour poster.

In this task I was annotating the tour poster, decoding/ deconstructing the decotations anfd making connotations from the denotations of this Harry Styles poster. The narrative of this poster was to promote his new tour called ‘Love on tour’ . For example The clothing he is wearing signifys  he is metrosexual and he doesn’t care about gender persific clothing.

The way the artist is postitioned lying down propped up onto his arms is very casual, this represents how the artist wants the tour to be relaxed and easy. This also represents that he is wanting to be engaging to the audience he is doing this by smiling to the camera.

By doing this task I have gained a understanding of what I will include into my magazine to make it successful. I have gained ideas for my media magazine such as, a big title to attract the audiences attention, appropriate colour to the subject of my poster and images to convey and compliment my genre, narrative and stars.

Media is a huge interconnecting independant system made up of many different elements that are all importan to the media world. From my reasearch I have found that all the media uses and gratifications that go into creating any form of media are interconnected and are all interdependant to eachother.

Media ecology is what you add into your media to make it target your audience more effectively and efficiently. Media impacts on todays society in many different ways, such as advertising to try and engage people to interact with your media , to influence and persuade the audience. The media is a huge interconnecting independant system made up of many different elements that are all importan to the media world.

Areas to focus on when wanting to inclue in your media are:

• what your audience want to see and how it is coming across to them
• colours making your media stand out
• The relationships between the different types of software, hardwear and audience
• The forever changing effects of media
• perosnal elements to engage the audience
• The audiences feelings and values

These are all to make sure your form of media is as effective and popular as you would like it to be and make it successful. The perception on media has changed throuhgt the last decade as devices and softwares become more advanced. Media is forever changing in today society.

what I have learnt? And how it is going to effect my magazine?

From what I have learnt I am going to include as many media gratifications and uses in my magazine as possible as these media uses make the magezine more popular and gets across the feelings and values of what my magazine is going to be about. I have also learnt that I would not be able to create my magazine in isolation or independantly as it would not be successful because of all of the media elements are impossible to include on your own.