Leah media blog

 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 -