Lesson 5, 6 & 7

Lesson 5

We looked at different magazine front covers and talked about the good and bad points of their layout. We analysed how we knew for what the magazines were for (their purpose) and who their audience was. We also had a brief look at what language they used to achieve this, for example, persuasive text and commands.

We got into pairs and together analysed a front cover of a chose magazine. I analysed LOOK magazine with Bron. We analysed things such as colour co-ordination, model poses and font. All of these examples can give away the audience and purpose of the magazine, but they can also tell you more about what is in the magazine itself.

Lesson 6

We went around the school today and took photo's of things we could use in our school magazines.

Lesson 7

We presented what we had learned in lesson 5 to the rest of the class, and listened to what they had also learned. We then watched several adverts and had a go at figuring out what language they had used. For example, statistics, direct address, hyperbole (exaggeration), anecdote, rhetorical questions, the rule of 3 and commands.

Lesson 3 & 4

We looked at old postcards advertising different clothes. We learned the meanings of denotation and connotation and used them while looking at the postcards. We looked at how the body language, clothes and writing delivered hidden messages to the viewer. For example, a confident body stance in a certain piece of clothing can suggest to the viewer that when they buy these clothes, they will also be confident and cool. We also looked at how the women where positioned next to the men, suggesting that men were powerful and women were weak.

Later we googled for school magazines and analysed them. Here's an example:

Artistic Talent FFH
Front cover
The colours are bright; mainly red and yellow. This shows an artistic confidence to students. The front page has a large image of a GCSE student and her work. She is smiling and standing confidently. This is showing that she is comfortable with her work. This suggests that the maker wants students to appreciate their own work.

Lucy Cunnington

Introduction to Media

08/09/10 - Lessons One and Two.

From my understanding representation is how things in media are shown. For example, we looked at several Carolina Beach adverts today, where we analysed the construction of the adverts. We looked at things like camera angles, colours used and rhymes or alliterations. Often the camera angle, facial expressions and arrangement of a photograph can manipulate the picture so that the content can look completely different to the reality. We learned how this can be used in magazines to better fit with an article.

Later, we created google mail accounts so that we could create this blog. We learned how to create, edit and post blogs as well as show others how to read them.

Lucy Cunnington