Convensions

I need to consider the type of language i am going to use for example, my art college magazine is going to include slang to because of the audience i am trying to attract, but i were to make a science magazine i would have to use appropriate language because of the audience i would want to attract.

My writing is going to be mixed, i am going to include informal and formal language. i will use slang for example, my title (Art Vibe Art College) that is informal language.

My magazine is going to be humorous because i am trying to attract teenagers so if it is to be serious no one would read my magazine.

Denotation and Anotation (my lesson)

 My lesson objective was to understand what denotation and annotation meant. also i needed to be able to identify how it underlines narrative and representational issues.
I also learnt that according to Roland Barthes we, the 'reader' go through various stages when we deconstruct the meaning of a sign.

Denotation is the first simplest level of meaning of an image, example
an island could mean peace or loneliness.

My Questionnaire

This is my questionnaire. I asked students in my media class to answear the questions. This is going to help me improve my magazine.


I asked students to circle four things that they would want to read about in the magazine. 15 students answeard my questionair and the most popular choices were

• Famous artists working with the college students
• Competitions
• Trips to museams or art gallaries
• Art by the students in the magazine

Out of all the six things i put on the questionair they chose those four. Those are the four things i am going to  put in my art magazine. As well as those four things i asked if they wanted to see other things in the magazine and they wrote they want to see pictures

Pictures ive taken for my college art magazine

 

These are the pictures i took for my magazine. I am going to use them for my magazine. I will probably change them but for now i am going to use them and see if i can improve on them. These are some of my pictures.

Identifiying my ideal reader

Today i was researching on how I'm am going to present my college magazine. I was looking on what age i am going to attract and how attractive my magazine is. I looked at a few magazines, for example Rock star magazine. i looked just at the front cover and stereotypically suggested that young single university students would read this magazine and they are not very rich . i had a few questions to answear, for example, what breakfast do they eat, and i wrote they eat left over takeaways because its quick and easy and it tastes good. for my magazine i am going to target the ages between 16 to 20. the reason is, i want to target older students and young students at the same time. the people who are going to read my magazine will probably be middle class and working class or working lower middle class. I want to target ordinary people who love art and have a passion for it.

Representation for an adiance (research)

My objective was to understand how a Media text can create representations for an audience. My other objective was to understand how gender maybe represented by a media text.

What is representation?
A representation is the way that media represents individuals, groups events and issues. Also media institutions use stereotypes because the audience will quickly understand  them. Also stereotypes are repeated so often that we assume they're true.

Archetype- the ultimate stereotype
Countrype- the opposite of stereotypes and archetype.  representation that challenges tradition.

Film poster research

 Today i researched on film posters. I look at how their presented.  The main character (Zack Efron) looks very stereotypical. He looks like a rich and spoilt teenager. Also you can see why the movie is called seventeen again because he right foot has got a mature shoe compared to his other foot which has got a trainer, and theirs trousers on the floor and a suite case.

the title is at the bottom of the poster which is not very conventional compared to other movie posters. also the background doesn't look very interesting, it is just plain and simple which is boring. Also the tag line is where the title should be which is very different and odd.