SEPTEMBER: 2016
Introduction to the course and disusing the exam. We began to look at 'House of Cards': An American tv drama created by Beau Willimon and directed by David Fincher, starring, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael kelly and Kate Mara, and distributed by Netflix and analysed the trailer in depth. We have been using photos from the internet to construct magazine covers. in one lesson each previous media or film student was paired with a student who has never done analysis or Photoshop before, during this hour i helped my pair to analyse a magazine cover and showed her the basics of Photoshop which helped me to remember basics and refresh my memory about analysis. I produced a men's fashion magazine and a Men's health magazine staring Troye Sivan and David Beckham, they took me around 2 hours and i am really pleased with both of them and my Photoshop skills have definitely improved since I used Photoshop last year, I can now complete tasks on Photoshop lot quicker and over summer i helped other teachers with displays and photos which really helped me to improve.
We have started researching into our preferred genre of magazine. I have done research into simplistic fashion and beauty with because i don't like to overcrowd a cover by having lots or sell lines or anchorage text. For this reason, the three magazines that i have chosen to look at are all simplistic with basic covers. The magazine 'Bello' has the most sell lines and some are far too crowded for my liking.
The thing that i love about these 'Bello' covers is the colour palettes that are used and how they clearly show the season and reflect the costume and main image as well as showing off the sell lines and anchorage text.
These covers atre very light and easy on the eyes. The colour palettes are pastel and not bold which reflects the idea of them being more sophisticated with little in the way of sell lines and only having anchorage text that is discrete and minimalistic..
I really love the composition and main image of these Mojeh covers. The one of the two women really appeals to me and i love the colour palettes of the other two. again the colour schemes of each cover show clearly the time of year and the kind of thing that is inside the magazine.