AS level media - company magazine

Today we looked at the presentational values of the front cover of Company magazine. We studied the front cover in great detail, using 'PALL' to help we discovering what the colours symbolised and how it can draw attention to different areas, how pictures can create different moods and senses of feelings and emotion, how company design their magazine front cover to benefit their selling profits, and how to draw the buyers in. After looking and analysing the font cover we then gave a small presentation to the rest of the class explaining what we looked at and are thoughts and opinions.

AS Level Media

First Lesson:

Today we discussed the course outline. We got given a summary of our syllabus that we will be working on for the next year.
In particular we studied the cause of representation within the media. Representation is the constructed and mediated presentation of people, things, ideas and places and the process by which the media presents the 'real world'
We focused on an booklet that advertised a beach in north Carolina, we used 'PALL' to help us analyse in full detail.
Purpose: What they are selling, is it a popular product, whats the overall message the booklet is trying to convey.
Audience: How we feel about the advert, what sort of people would buy the products, to analyse the presentational values of the booklet, what the avert suggest about peoples lifestyles,  and what assumptions the image makes about the reader.language and layout
Language: What have they used to hook you in and why? Was the language effective and encouraging.
Layout: Describing the pictures in the advert and how effective they are, does the picture undermine anyone?