Leah media blog

 Wednesday 15th June 2022 To understand the basic rules of shot composition  Rule Of Thirds Leading Lines  Depth Of Field  Deep Focus:  Shallow Focus:  Photographing People:  Wednesday 22nd June 2022 To explore composition and perspective  I think the last portrait is the most successful because it looks like he is looking off into the distance and has head room, has both eyes in it and has room for where he is looking. I think to improve i should improve the back round.  extreme close up angle angle texture  reflection pattern

 Wednesday 25th May 2022 To explore and understand how to use In-design for magazine layouts  Wednesday 8th June 2022 Introduction to media representations  To explore the concept of representation and stereotypes.  The media offers the audience an interpretation of the world Stereotype - A generalised representation of a person, place or thing.  They are limited and often offensive or used for comedy.  Nanny - female, old Nurse - female, smart Teenager - argumentative, loud, rude Astronaut - male, rich, white Football player - male, strong, middle aged Opera Fan - old person, rich Teacher - female, smart,  Tattoo lover - male, white, strong, tall, muscly  How are people represented? Year9 girls are being represented as rude, argumentative, loud and disruptive. The teacher is being kind and trying to be funny and enthusiastic. How do people act? What do they say? What surprises you? 

 Wednesday 4th May 2022 Explore the use of Adobe illustrator to create a magazine masthead Magazine genre - Entertainment  Most of these magazines use the word entertainment as their masthead and a bright colour palette for cover lines. The magazines normally use medium or medium long shot to sometimes fit back rounds in. They use bold writing and bright colours to stand out.  Sport magazine genre - Sub genre - Basketball  All the magazine have big bold mastheads, most have 'slam' as their masthead. They all have a bright colour palette and most have a player with a basket ball. Most have barcodes and most have the name of the player on their front cover, this may be because they are well known and will get lots of attention. Title of my magazine - 

Wednesday 27th April 2022  To identify the features on  a magazine front cover; to explore genre codes and conventions  Masthead - The masthead is the printed matter in a magazine that gives the title and details of ownerships, advertising rates and subscription rates. Most magazines will put the masthead at the top done in a specially designed typeface to stand out.  Dateline -   dateline is a brief piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was written or filmed, though the date is often omitted. A monthly magazine usually hits the news - stands the month before the cover date Main Image -  The main image of the magazine cover is usually a representative illustration of the content within the magazine . It should best reflect what the issue is all about. Big magazines typically portray a well-known celebrity or a visually appealing image that easily triggers an emotion. The big image on the front of the magazine.  Cover Lines - Cover lines are nor

Wednesday 27th April 2022 To evaluate and review our News Day project  Me and my group worked on the cannabis raids in Bodmin which resulted in seizures of 1000 plants. We interviewed PC Pickings to help us with knowing more about this.  I enjoyed interviewing the police officer and finding out more things about cannabis raids and listening to the funny parts while editing.   I least enjoyed the editing the funny parts out because it cut out some of the talking.  The skills i learnt was how to edit such as green screen, edit on iMovie. I learnt in the News Process how to use the camera and set it up for my group and others.  If i did the report again i would improve how i laughed a lot and try not too so it wont cut out the interview and make sure too fully charge the camera before using it so it would not cut out the first part of the interview and make sure the camera focused before recording as it was blurry.  

 Wednesday 2nd March 2022 To explore the concept and format of news What is the purpose of News? - To educate and inform readers - I nformation about the world  - Weather  - Awareness  - Entertainment  - To make a profit  Different types of news  - War - Corona Virus  - Climate Change  - World - Politics  - Health  - Business  - Science  - Family & Education  - Entertainment & Arts - Local  - Celebrity  - Tech  - Human interest  This would be under 'health' news This would be under 'sport' news This would be under 'world' news To explore the validity to news stories and their origins Fake News: False information used to shape your views, opinions or ideas.  Examples of fake news: - People write fake news to spread lies and make money.  Wednesday 9th March 2022 To understand what news is and where to find it What are the key ingredients to good news story? A lot of information Something that surprises the audience  Accuracy  Based on facts  Straight to th