Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Mood Board

We have been asked to do a mood board to show our favourite bands and artists to help us decide what genre we are going to do for our magazine

Photoshop Practice



Rules of Thirds

Rule of thirds is thought as dividing the focused image into 9 different sections. The middle piece being the key element you want to focus on. This picture intends to engage the selective viewer’s attention.
Balanced images are shown for when the photograph is landscape, each line gives a direct meaning and stays on such things as; cliffs and horizontal lines.
Not every scenery that is getting focused on will work, so the rule will not be complied in the same way and will have to be broken. 
this is with and without the lines divided in to groups

Cohen's Moral Panic

Moral Panic is a condition, episode of a person, a group of people emerge as a threat to social values and interests, I.E. drugs, youths, and the MP's expenses scandal are all examples of a moral panic. The media creates "Folk Devils" these are groups if people that have been established as bad groups of people who are effecting the Moral Panic.

Moral Panic falls into to 5 categories
  1. Concern - the behaviour of a group are represented as being a threat the requires our concern
  2. Volatility - this is a short lived period. Panic erupts but is difficult to sustain. There are negative consequences for the rest of us
  3. Hostility - "folk devils" constructed to create a division between 'them' and 'us'
  4. Consensus - there is a widespread acceptance of threat posed by the group. This does not always reflect nation concern, but the campaigner will be very vocal whilst opposition will be weak and disorganised 
  5. Disproportionality - there is a wild exaggeration of the evidence presented against the opposition - everything from the number of people involved to the scale of the problem is exaggerated to create a moral panic  

Friday, 3 February 2012

Deyes High Newsletter

Media Vocab

Buzz Words: "Wow", "Exclusive", "Free" are all examples of this.
Pu
ffs: Colourful boxes promoting features inside. House Style: A magazine's distinctive design that distinguishes it from its competitors.
Strap Line: A sloganBanner: Text which stands out on a coloured background generally at the bottom of the magazine.
Copy: The Main Story in the MagazineAnchorage Text: The way in which text helps to pin down the meaning of a picture and vice versa.

Pugs: Placed at the top left and right corners of the paper and are known as the 'ears' of the page. The price of the paper, the logo or a promotion are often positioned there.


Motto: Memorable phrase that is recognisable to a brand

Headline: Catchy Title for the main article

Sell Lines: Text on the front cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience

Caption: Description of the main image

Masthead: Name of the magazine

Lead: The introductory paragraph of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals.

Drop Capitals:
Really big letter that starts off an article