House Magazine annotation

This is a Dance/House music magazine and the colour scheme of this particular issue very much goes with the genre of music, it is quirky and upbeat with lots of different colours which is a good representation of House music. The main piece of text, rather than the obvious title, is the names "P Diddy & Felix" who are also pictured on the front of the magazine are obviously the main attraction and what the developers at 'mixmag' think will be the major selling point for them. The main title is in a different font to the cover lines, each edition of this magazine has the same font for the title 'mixmag'. The top right corner of these music magazines always have an advice section or ideas for young clubbers. There are plenty of other artist in this magazine as we can see underneath the 'plus' in  the bottom right corner, it is obvious to us that these artists are not as famous or as sellable to old customers and new customers. Middle left of the magazine there is a free mix CD which is also a way of attracting new customers and keeping old customers aswell.

 

We would usually associate P Diddy & Felix with RnB and Rap so maybe this is an attempt to step out and come into another genre. Underneath their names it says 'Can house save hip hop' this gives us the impression that hip hop is failing and they are using the new upcoming genre of music to save themselves. This magazine is a good way of showing when two music types come together, we have the RnB in P Diddy & Felix and they are fitting in quite naturally to the house style of magazine that this is.                                                             

    



50 Cent/Susan Boyle

This is my attempt of merging two styles of musician together in 50 Cent (Rapper) and Susan Boyle (Light Classical), this was a task set in class and I think by combining the two as one picture will give out the impression that there is some sort of crossover. I have dressed Susan Boyle up in a rappers clothing to signify that rap will be a big part of this song.

Lack of Posts

I havent been able to complete the posts of late as I have had problems logging into my google account, sorry, I will begin posting immediately.

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

In our most recent media lesson we worked on our photoshop skills. To begin with we added a picture of our sixth form building, rasterised the image which allowed us to edit the picture. We then made any changes that we needed to make such as removing the sky or the ground etc using the magic wand tool. After that we added the text to the picture selected a size and colour and set that. We then added two edits to the text to make it look 3D, we added a shadow effect to make it look this way.

College Magazine analysis

This school newsletter gives us the impression that it is a relaxed, i can tell this because of the picture that is slightly off straight and an image of grafitti which gives off a more informal approach however there are also formal parts of the newsletter such as a comment from the headteacher and a basic font where as if it was completely informal the font would be a bit more out there.

In the top left corner the Cardinal Heenan Crest is there to show that the school is traditional as other schools may leave it off to look more modern.

Ideology

What is ideology?

Ideology is a world view which people in society see as true or important and the rest of that culture or society will function in that way.

In Layman's terms the ideology of something is how it is seen or portrayed by us as the viewer or reader in the case of a music magazine.

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In this image we can see that our school is being portrayed as negative as everything is dark and looks miserable.

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Feminism in a Music Magazine

Web Definition:

Feminism - is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic and social rights for women.

Lady Gaga is one of the most openly famous feminist.

The Male Gaze

The male gaze is a theory created by Laura Mulvey in 1975, as her belief was that film audiences have to view characters from a male heterosexual perspective. Feminists see people in three ways:

• How men look at women
• How women look at themselves
• How women look at other women

Some believe that the male gaze is used in everyday life as sexualising the female body even when sexiness of the female has nothing to do with the advert or product at all, for example the most recent coca cola advert whereby the woman is made to look extremely sexy for no apparent reason other than to attract male attention.

Others criticise this theory because its not just the male gaze as a lot of women look at other women and are jealous or envious, as well as this some women like being looked at as they even enter beauty pageants to get looked at.