Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Thursday, 15 May 2014
14. Evaluation
Final Evaluation
The first part of the album cover course was research. we needed to find out how gender was represented in hip hop album covers and connotations of hip hop album covers. I found out that regular connotations of hip hop album covers were that they were in suburban areas. In these album covers the males, which were normally the artists, would wear hoodies and a lot of bling. Males were represented to be very rich by having fast cars and or big houses. Where as the females would be dancing around the males and would be posing as if they belonged to the male. These women were almost always in sexually provoking positions which is to act as eye candy to the men to attract them to buying the album. Codes in all album covers were that they contained a barcode and copyright information about the album. They also had the atists website and songs numbered in a list on the back.
EBI: We researched only hip hop album covers and not other album covers so we only learnt connotations of hip hop album covers.
Also if we found out more codes and conventions of hip hop album covers so that we could later use them when making our own album covers.
WWW: We found some codes and conventions of hip hop album covers to use in our album covers.
We found reasons for some features of a hip hop album cover such as women in sexually provoking positions attracts men to the album cover and tempts them to purchase it.
After that to test our understanding of codes and conventions of album covers we made our own album cover from a artist from our genre using photoshop , which in my case was hip hop. We would have to present it well and be creative. We would also have to make sure it appealed to the target audience and had the general codes of a album cover such as a barcode and copyright information. We had to analyse this album cover we had created to understand what we had missed and how we could have improved it.
for my final album cover I planned to have a image of a male flying over the moon on a high end bike, this linked to gender representation in hip hop album covers because it showed that the male had power, superiority and was rich. To do this I would have to take a picture of someone on a bike and edit it on photo shop to him flying over the moon. My back cover had a image of the same male falling from the sky this represents him finding out that he s not 'over the moon' and has to come back to reality. I did this by taking the picture in front of a green screen. I also made sure that all the general codes of a album cover were present in my album front and back cover such as the barcode, song list, and copyright information.
The first part of the album cover course was research. we needed to find out how gender was represented in hip hop album covers and connotations of hip hop album covers. I found out that regular connotations of hip hop album covers were that they were in suburban areas. In these album covers the males, which were normally the artists, would wear hoodies and a lot of bling. Males were represented to be very rich by having fast cars and or big houses. Where as the females would be dancing around the males and would be posing as if they belonged to the male. These women were almost always in sexually provoking positions which is to act as eye candy to the men to attract them to buying the album. Codes in all album covers were that they contained a barcode and copyright information about the album. They also had the atists website and songs numbered in a list on the back.
EBI: We researched only hip hop album covers and not other album covers so we only learnt connotations of hip hop album covers.
Also if we found out more codes and conventions of hip hop album covers so that we could later use them when making our own album covers.
WWW: We found some codes and conventions of hip hop album covers to use in our album covers.
We found reasons for some features of a hip hop album cover such as women in sexually provoking positions attracts men to the album cover and tempts them to purchase it.
EBI: we made more than one album cover to make sure we understood codes and convections of album covers fully.
WWW: we were able to make our own album cover using our understanding of album cover.
we could be creative and make the album cover how we wanted to.
EBI: I could have used more convections of hip hop album covers in my board game.
WWW: used codes well and showed my understanding of some convections.
Good use of photoshop to allow me to create my album cover how I wanted to.
In this course I have developed skills such as learning connotations of album covers which I had never recognized before and had been made aware of general codes of album front and back covers. As well as this I have gained presentational skills on photo shop to be able to make my final album cover how I wanted I to be. I have also understood how gender is represented in hip hop album covers.
In this course I have developed skills such as learning connotations of album covers which I had never recognized before and had been made aware of general codes of album front and back covers. As well as this I have gained presentational skills on photo shop to be able to make my final album cover how I wanted I to be. I have also understood how gender is represented in hip hop album covers.
EBI: We could have had more time to learn more skills on photoshop and improve our album cover.
WWW: I have developed skills and learnt new skills such as how to use photoshop.
Recognized convections in album covers that I had never noticed before.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Monday, 12 May 2014
Monday, 31 March 2014
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Monday, 24 February 2014
exam: section A Q3
Discuss how people and lifestyles are represented in the extract.
Refer to stereotypes in your answer.
Use examples from the extract.
Refer to stereotypes in your answer.
Use examples from the extract.
In the magazine lifestyles are represented by things on the front of the magazine sharing mutual interests for all readers such as 5 boys you'll date, and also the person on the front is always inspirational for the readers for example all the readers want to look like and be as healthy as Selena Gomez who is on the front of this magazine. People are represented in the extract are represented as inspirational figures of the the readers want to be due to looks such as Tulisa or they want to have as their boy friend such as Marvin from JLS which is a stereotype of the girls who read this type of magazine.
Inside the magazine there vibrant pink, purple and blue colours which connote a stereotype of the lifestyle of the people who read the magazine. The contents of the magazine has bold headings which are a different colour, so they stand out, which attracts the reader.
The language used in the magazine particularly on the page 'your space' is very stereotypical of young girls such as 'txt' a abbreviation for text and 'Mo' a abbreviation for moment. Also the page your space gives the readers their own space that answers their questions and has pictures of the readers themselves which makes it even more personal for them. Also,articles based on what the audience is interested In.
The issue s with how people and lifestyles are represented in 'Bliss' magazine are that the readers are inspired by the lifestyle that the magazine is representing (which is one of a perfect teenage girl) and in real life this doesn't exist which therefor will lead the readers to thinking that their life is not as good as everyone else's.
The issue s with how people and lifestyles are represented in 'Bliss' magazine are that the readers are inspired by the lifestyle that the magazine is representing (which is one of a perfect teenage girl) and in real life this doesn't exist which therefor will lead the readers to thinking that their life is not as good as everyone else's.
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
1.music video work sheet
Music Video Worksheet
Name of track:
Tic Tok ____________________________________________________
Name of
artist: Ke$ha ____________________________________________________
Year: 2009 ___________
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Features to look for:
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Details from video
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Genre:
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Pop
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Mise-en-scene
(location, props, costume, lighting)
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The video
starts at Kesha’s house to the streets outside then in a club
Kesha carry’s a boom box with her throughout
the video
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Relationship
between lyrics and visuals:
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She sings her
getting drunk and going to a party, which links to her lyrics.
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Relationship
between music and visuals (editing):
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She edits her
voice when she says ‘drunk’ to sound as she actually is drunk
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Camera shots,
movement and position:
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The camera
shots is mainly focused on kesha getting drunk partying etc.
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Is there
reference to the notion of looking in a sexually motivated way?
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Yes, at what
point kesha starts pole dancing in a sexual nature
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Is the video
performance based, narrative-based or concept-based? How much of each?
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The general
concept of the video is partying. The
video has story with a cycle she wakes up in a tub and goes out partying
And ends up in
a bathtub again,
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Name of
track: the lazy song _______________________________________________
Name of
artist: Bruno mars ____________________________________________________
Year: 2011 ___________
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Features to look for:
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Details from video
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Genre:
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Pop
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Mise-en-scene
(location, props, costume, lighting)
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The video is
filmed in a bedroom sitting on a chair. The video shows Bruno with 5 other
men in gorilla masks
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Relationship
between lyrics and visuals:
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Bruno sings
about being lazy in his bedroom and he is doing that
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Relationship
between music and visuals (editing):
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The video seems to be filmed live and
without being edited. When another person came on the camera and said ‘OMG
this is great’ it is edited to sound like a girl.
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Camera shots,
movement and position:
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The camera
stays the same, it doesn’t move at all. Which may link to the song of being
lazy.
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Is there
reference to the notion of looking in a sexually motivated way?
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Bruno sings
about putting his hand down his pants which is sexually motivated
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Is the video
performance based, narrative-based or concept-based? How much of each?
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The
performance is Bruno mars sings and dancing to a camera in his bedroom. And
singing about being lazy and staying in his place of residence
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