big issue

The Big Issue 

Lesson 1 

• Study in Relation to media language and media representation 
• Sold to help homeless people make money 
• Homeless sell and keep a bit of profit 
• circulation- number of copies a magazine sells 
• Readership- Not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people who are likely to read it.
• Mass audience- readership on a large scale 
• Niche audience- Narrow group of leaders with a particular interest 
• Subscription- Where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post
• Mast head- the title of the magazine 
• Plug- Text that plugs a feature that will appear 
• Puff- a story that is given prominence on the cover 
• cover star- the over people 
• Anchorage text- Bit of contextual text 
• has adverts 
• written by professionals by john bird and gordon Robbick 
• 200,000,000 million copies 

Media Boys aftershave reviews

 

 

Our media task was to produce a aftershave for pre teenage boys, our audience was younger boys and our product name was evolve.

We were in a group of 5 people and divided our work into planning, filming and editing and on the day of the shoot we all pitched in with ideas.

We planned or sequence using story boards. This way we could clearly label and draw our ideas so that we knew what and when to shoot.

Whilst planning this we had to think about cast and who could play the roll of a young boy. Seeing as we older than the target age we decided to use on of our group members younger brothers to play the role of the young boy. We asked our self's in the group what we liked at that age and tried to incorporate that into the advert to make it more relatable.

The initial feedback of the advert was that it was shot and edited well however was too long and had to be cut down to the average advert time

I think the way we worked together as a tam went really well and it was just the length of the advert that was the issue. If we were ever to redo the advert we would take more care in time management whilst editing and make sure it was shorter and maybe reduce the idea into a more simple idea. We have learnt that by having roles and sticking to them really helps with group efficiency and helps produce a good final piece

In the future I would defiantly prioritise assigning roles before we start anything as large projects defiantly require team work.

Dancing animals

For this video we were given and editing task using pre recorded footage. I tried to match the music to each shot change to create a smooth flowing video during the city phase. For my dancing animals part I increase the video speed to make it appear more fast flowing and energetic. As for the James bond section I changed the music to a more action themed song in order to intensive the footage. I also played around with some loop effects by copy and pasting footage and then replaying them one after each other.

Advert presentation evalutation

Advert remake analysis





In preparation fro our fruitella advert remake we tried to assign roles. I was Camera, Luke was editor and Alex and grace took director. However they were soon forgotten during filming and it soon became cluttered and confusing. It slowed production down drastically and has taught us to be more cooperative in the next task.

In preparation we watched the advert through and noted each scene so we knew where to film and for how long. some shots were split up in the advert but shot in the same location so we had to shoot separate scenes in no chronological order and then rearrange them in edit.

When picking our shoot location we had to make sure they had the right lighting, space and similarity to the advert. As we all know the school and shoot location well we easily found the right locations. However due to shooting on school we had to be sure the locations were free and we didn't disrupt any lessons during filming.

As for our piece after editing the cuts and mouthing fitted well with the advert and the scenes were very similar however lighting and costumes were hard to match so with another try we would of liked to of used some artificial lighting and invest more time into props and costumes.

After showing people a common response was positive when talking about timings of the shots and angles however the lighting and costumes were also noticed and needed improving.

After completing the task I can say that roles need to be assigned and stuck to in order avoid people shouting over each other and slowing down production time. I also believe we should shoot each scene multiple times until its right instead of just saying that'll do. In the future I can say we will improve and constantly be learning from mistakes and success's.

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