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Key Assessment 5- Aims and Intentions

Key Assessment 5- Aims and Intentions For this key assessment, I will be talking about my aims and intentions for both my music video and magazine. I will discuss subjects such as cross media production, representation of individuals and my target audience. As part of the making of my music video I used several different angles and locations. I did this because I knew that it would add interest to the music video and would keep the audience focused on my work, stopping them from getting bored. I continued this with my magazine by using several different locations, angles and techniques to produce the photographs to accompany my magazine article.  Following this, I used several key media terms in my music video such as representation which has helped me to keep a clear link between my video and magazine. In relation to this, I have included several terms surrounding magazines. In my magazine, I have included pull quotes, stand first, captions, barcodes, headli...

Double Page Spread Analysis

Rough Magazine Covers

Magazine Mood Board

Music Video Analysis. (Homework)

Fergie - M.I.L.F. $ (Official Music Video) - YouTube Who is being represented? The video entitled "Milf money" (standing for Mother I'd Like To Follow) has been used to represent rich middle aged white women with children as role models for younger women and girls. How are they being represented? While the music video is supposed to be one of empowerment for the women, the skimpy outfits and innuendos imply that they are being used as sexual objects to appeal to men.  What is the impact and message of this? The impact of this message on the audience is far from the empowerment they were aiming for. instead the message is that it is okay for the older women to be fetishised and used to target a wider male audience . What are the binary opposites in this video? One opposition that can be see in the video is the empowering message that is meant to be sent by the famous mum's in the video and the sexual imagery seen throughout the music video. Is the video c...

The Representation Of Black people In The Media. Key Theory 5- Jean Baurillard

The Representation Of Black people In The Media.  (Hyperreality) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryoOF5jEbc Who is being represented? The women who have bene represented in this music video are mostly African-American women with curvey bodies. How are they being represented The women have been represented as sexual objects because the music video tends to focus on the dancers bum rather than their face. Who is the target audience (age, gender, class)? The target audience for this music video is going to be mainly young teenage girls. this is because they spend a lot of time on sites such as YouTube watching music videos such as this one. What is the impact of the target audience?  The impact of this is on the young girls is that they believe that they need to look like the girls in this music video in terms of bdy type as well as the way they act. This means that the teenage girls will feel that they need to dress explicitly and have their bodies sexualised. T...

Beyonce Formation.

Beyonce Formation. Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic constructions and express relations. Artist:  BeyoncĂ© Album:  Lemonade Released:  2016 Genre:  Bounce music Nominations:  Grammy Award for Song of the Year Awards:  Grammy Award for Best Music Video In what ways are the themes in conflict (binary opposites) encoded in this video? The first shot we see in the music video is Beyonce standing on top of a police car to show her rebellion against the police's treatment of black people. As well as this, we see the effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. The storm killed hundreds and left thousands homeless and without food or clean water for days. This is Beyone's way of showing that it was on...