music magazine anotation

music magazine anotation

Introduction to Photoshop

Photoshop

This is the first lesson Ive spend on photoshop this term, i have used various tools to edit my picture to create a more dramatic magazine cover. The first tool i used is the magic want tool, this was to get rid of the sky background. i then used the polygonal lasso tool to draw lines around the bottom of the border with out getting rid of the two students. i then decided to make my magazine a 'red top', this was to make my magazine stand out but also its more conventional. i have used text effects on my title and decided to do text bevel and glow, this was to make the title look 3D and more stylish. As you can see the is allot of white space i have created by getting rid of the image, this is to put a headline in and also text about the headline. I have used photoshop before but not in a media sense, by this i mean analysing my work to adhere to what an actual magazine/newspaper is like.

Analysing a college magazine

Analysing a college magazine


In toady's lesson i am analysing my school magazine, i will describe how the way it has been represented.

What we look at the front page we notice its very formal, this is because there is allot of text and only a dew pictures. allot of formal newspapers such as 'The Guardian' use very little pictures and allot of text, this is to create an academic feature and to be more formal. 

But we also notice that the magazine is a 'Red Top', this is usually used in tabloid newspapers and creates and informal side to it. This may also be used to make the magazine stand out. Tabloids like 'The Echo' use a red top as it red top newspapers are usually simpler in writing style, dominated by pictures, and directed at the more sensational end of the market. 

We also notice that the front cover has a few pictures on it, the pictures are of school kids in their uniform. the reason for this is that

Ideology

Ideology is the system of beliefs and ideals that dictate the way we conduct ourselves. When people don't match our ideologies we tend to judge them as we feel people should believe in are views.

In terms of ideology of my school, you would relate a school to be generally safe and unthreatening, this make make it feel inviting and want to make people come to school. So lets look at two images from the front page of the school prospectus.

Hollyoaks

Feminism views on Hollyoaks

In previous blog i looked at feminism and how it has changed the role of women in today's society. I will watch an episode of the channel 4 TV show Hollyoaks. The TV show shows allot of feminism as most of the women characters in the show equality or even power of the male roles. 

Nancy Hayton, the role portrayed by Jessica Fox is a ideal example of a female feminist. from the episode i watched i noticed that the character 'Nancy' is shown as a strong, free willed person who isn't pushed around. Nancy's role in the episode is a Landlady, from personal knowledge i know that she once was a barmaid at the same pub. From this i know that she is determined to have a higher power over not only males but from her characteristic's everyone else. In the episode she is has a argument with a male role over money for the tenancy. Her tough personality manages to get the money of the male in a later episode. This shows that not only female's can have a higher achy job than some of the male characters in the show, if you were to step back 20-30 years we would never see a woman in a job status like her's. All managerial jobs like a Landlord/Lady were given to the male characters as it was seen a natural because men had the best jobs in those day's. People see her character as 'too masculine', this straight away is misogynistic. Feminism has took a big hit to the UK society, but not enough to change some people's views and the fact that her role is seen as a male's characteristics isn't right.    

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Feminism

Feminism

History of Feminism

Women played a major role in the 1789 French Revolution. But some argued if women had the task of 'bringing up the new citizens', they should also have a new status. In her Rights of Woman, But the male leaders of the Revolution were basically hostile and in 1793 they outlawed all women's clubs. A woman's place was in the home, they ruled. This hostility persisted through the nineteenth century. Not until 1909 did French women have control over their own earnings it was not until 1944 did they get the vote. 

For black women living in slavery in America the late eighteenth century was a turning point, as Protestant evangelism combined with the anti-slavery movement. Women made up a large part of revival congregations - both in white and black churches. Black women realized that freedom from whites was not enough. They had to have freedom from men too. But uniting white and black women was not easy. 

But during the 1960s feminism burst into life again in the US as part of a radical culture that included Civil Rights and sexual liberation. Feminist groups campaigned on issues such as childcare, health, welfare, education, abortion. In Europe the peace movement became the focus for feminist activism, UK. And feminism boomed in Latin America after the restoration of democracy during the 1980s.

Famous Feminist's 

Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, Hillary Clinton, these woman are just one of many who changed the worlds view on feminism. From the little things you do every day to fight the power, to the millions of women across the world who take a stand in the name of equal rights and womankind, the wonder of the feminist movement is its incredible and the way it attracts people from so many backgrounds to be engaged in the global conversation.

Semiotic Theory

Semiotic Theory

Semiotic theory is also known as the study of signs. There are 3 stages of this theory:

The perception stage - A person recognises a sign

The manipulation stage - A person realises how to respond to this sign.

The consummation stage - The person carries out the action ordered by the sign

Denotation 

Denotation is the primary meaning of a word or sign, in contrast to the feeling or ideas that the word or sign may suggests. For example a harmful sign denotes for people not to touch it. Even without words we would recognise the meaning from the shape and the colour.

Connotation

Connotation is the idea or a feeling that a word or a sign portrays for a person in relation to the real meaning. It gives a tone or an emotional attachment that a word or sign has. It can be positive and negative reaction but is usually seen in the same way to the public. For example the harmful sign would have the connotation of risk and danger of an accident if the person decided to ignore the sign because of the orange colour background and the black cross which portrays this meaning of death.