Throughout the 2 activities you will have been making creative decisions based on ideas you were developing about your readers. Where did these ideas come from and how did they influence the ‘micro’ detail of shot composition and framing, anchorage, layout, mode of address and register?
February 3rd, 2010
The ideas I developed about my readers came from music I listen to, videos I watch, interviews I watch and people that I see. They influenced the mode of address and register because in this music magazine I took a stereotypical approach to the task as I thought this would make the product more realistic, so was using typical American rappers language (“Haterproof” are a fictional American group) (eg: Y’all). They influenced the layout because I originally had an orange background but it didn’t suit the urban/street settings of the music but these did not influence the shot composition and framing because they are similar for all music magazines (fairly close-up, looking at audience, etc…)