Easter Work- Representation..503
From looking at this (http://blackpoolmedia.wordpress.com/category/representation/) blog and watching the videos, I noticed that the representation can be categorised under the following categories:
Age:this is from the skins trailer
The videos show that teenagers tend to have close bonds with their friends, as throughout everyone is seen in groups having fun, this fun involves having a wild party which shows drug taking, drinking. This is shown through long shots to close ups of specific action which happens with the main characters of the series. The sound is non diegetic and plays along with the party and the lyrics ‘standing in the way of control’ represents their outlook of life. During the trailer, there is a close up of Sid having ‘virgin’ written over his head which shows that teenagers have serious worries about the way they come across to their friends, it also shows that being in a relationship is a concern but more to females as Michelle is seen having an argument with Tony, whereas throughout he is seen to be care-free and doing as he pleases.
Gender:
The video from The OC shows a stereotypical role reversal
Magazine Homework Task
1. A cut line is the caption underneath a picture.
2. A sidebar is the story related to the main story.
3. A headline is the title of the article, used to advertise the article.
4. Pull quotes are bits of the text that are put into bold
5. A mug shot is a picture of a person,
6. Boxout
7. A caption is lines of text that explain a picture,
8. The Credits are the information provided by the magazine about the people who produced it
9. An exclusive is an item of information that no other magazine or newspaper has, therefore it is exclusive to that magazine
10. The lead story is the story with most importance
11. The masthead or nameplate is the title of the magazine.
12. Pugs is a catchy line to make the audience want to read more.
13. Secondary lead
14. Spread is usually a two-page spread, where there are two pages, with one image and all the text surrounding it is related
15. A tagline is a slogan.
16. Splash is the main story
17. Lure is something used to attract people into buying the magazine
18. Cut is to shorten the newspaper or can also mean a photograph from the newspaper
19. Jumpline is at the bottom of an article saying where the story continues
20. The dateline is the line of text that says what time and date the incident in the story took place
21. Ears are the white spaces either side of the newspaper’s name, sometimes this space has the weather or lottery information there.
22. Deck is a smaller headline, which is between the head line and story.
23.By-line gives the name or the person who wrote the magazine article
24. Menu or index shows items that the audience can choose from
25. Photo credit is a note saying who took the photo
26. Colours are used to attract the reader to the story also the colour may also be used to create connotations and give an overall feel about the article.
27. ‘Dominant art’ is used because the pictures and design make the reader want to pick up the paper and read it.
28. Typography is important when designing a magazine as you have to make sure the audience can read it and it is understandable, this can be from using clear fonts, colours and layout.
29. A grid is used as the human eye sees things in a certain way so the grid is used to guide the eye to what the creator wants them to see.
30. When designing the page the grid based layout is important because it means the page has structure and the content is clear to the audience and they know where to look.
31.Three different jobs in
a. Journalism:
b. Writing: Editor, publishing and author
c. Reporting: Senior reporter, sports reporter, news reporter
32. A feature article is a story that is meant to entertain and also inform.
Media Homework.
Timeline activity:
1. I think media has been around since the victorian times so about 160 years.
2. The diamond sutra was printed in 868
3. Ayman Omar mastered the printing technique of’printing and casting’ in 1593-1661
4. William Caxton pantented his printing press in 1472
5. He published the chaucer’s canterbury tales in 1476
6. ’1526 AD: William Tyndale’s New Testament; The First New Testament to be Printed in the English Language. (Worms edition)’ was the first text to be published in english, this was published in the 1500s
7. The first newspaper was published in 1618 in amsterdam
8. Shakespeares first folio of plays was published in 1623
9.The BBC was first established in 1922
10. The first tabloid newspaper was the daily mirror which was developed in 1903
11. The first type writer was patented in 1868 by christopher latham
12. Konrad zuse invented the first computer in 1936
13.The first camera was invented by joseph Nicephore between the 1820s and 1830s
14. The first gramaphone was invented in 1877
15. Sony released the first CD player.
16. The VCR was invented in 1971
17. DVD’s were invented in 1998
18. The first film with sound was don juan, filmed in 1926
19. The first commercial radio station begun in 1973
20. The first advert shown on commercial tv was an advert for toothpaste in 1955
21. Breakfast Tv was launched in 1950
22. Media actually began 1140 years ago.
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