Class notes

Front Cover Image

The rules:

Type of shot- mid,mid-close or close up

Framing- portrait centered or left

Mise-en-scene

• Setting 
• Lighting
• Props
• Costume
• Hair/Make-up

Denotation- Facts, police descriptions, what you actually see,

Conoatations -Descriptive words, opinions, interpretation of meaning

Foundation Portfolio-

•  Magazine Production
• 2 tasks- Preliminary and Main task
• Coursework worth 50% of AS grade
• Main task- Music Magzine:the front cover, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine

20 marks- Research and planning

60 marks- Constructing

20 marks- Evaluation

Music Magazines:

• NME
• XXL
• Mojo
• Mix Mag
• Q
• The Source
• VIBE
• KERRANG

Music magazine: 

• Genre conventions
• Pictures
• Reviews-albums,singles,live shows
• Album releases
•  Genre specific
• Interviews
• Latest News
• Advertising

Why do we do genre research?

•  To find out what conventions are so that we can replicate them in our production.
•  To gain a historical overview of the genre.