Key Terms and Phrases
Media consumption- The sum of information and entertainment media taken in.
Audience behaviour- How audience acts.
Media ownership- Who owns and controls the media product.
Technologies- Application of scientific knowledge.
Audiences- Spectators or listeners at events
National-In our country.
Local- Close environment.
National audience- Spectators throughout the country.
Local audience- nearby audience.
Institution- organisation founded to provide entertainment in media.
International- existing, occurring or carried between nations.
Global-Worldwide
International institution- an organisation that was formed in two or more countries.
Global institution-A worldwide organisation, founded for specific reasons.
Hardware-tools,machinery and other durable equipment.
Content- Producing a peace of work or satisfaction.
Convergence- the process or state of merging together.
Cross media convergence- when two or more forms of media merge and become one.
Technological convergence- different types of technology merging and becoming one.
Synergy-the interaction or cooperation of two or more organisations.
Proliferation- a document created regarding yourself .
Issue- An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.

Media Definitions And Key Terms

Key media Terms

Props- A portable object used in a play or movie scenes.
SFX- An illusion created using props, camera work or has been computer generated during post production. Also known as special effect.
Sound types:
          Diegetic - Diegetic sound is any natural occurring sound, can be included either on or off screen. 

          Non Diegetic - Non Diegetic is when the source of the sound is not presented, often implemented during the post production process.

Shot cuts

Straight cut- a typical film transition used, created as a piece of post-production of video or film editing, used when combining multiple shots.

Jump shot- a straight forward transition to a different scene. 

Media Film Key Words.
Media language-  Language used by audio-visual,print and ICT - based media to produce meaning

Institution- they produce media texts for consumption  they will be seen as consciousness industries shaping our perceptions of ourselves everything around us.

Genre- Genre is the classification of any media text into a category or type example of this being the news, or TV soap opera.

Representation- The relationship between people, places, events, ideas, values and beliefs and their representation in the media and the issues and debates arising from this dynamic relationships

Audience- The people that are supposed to see and buy the product.

Ideology- The attitudes, beliefs and values held in common by groups of people and culturally produced within the community to sustain a particular way to life.

Narrative- The narrative is the way events are out together to be presented to an audience. The narrative allows use to explore how plots and story lines are put together, as well as how characters are integrated to how the narrative is executed.

Student Magazine Cover Analysis

During this piece of writing i was asked to construct analysis on two student college/sixth form magazine covers. This will include the connotation and denotation of the background, fonts, colour, text sizes and character views.

In view magazine

(Step up to Sixth Form)
Primarily i can see that the stand out white text reads the title 'In View' with the tag line of 'step up to sixth form' this is in bold and stands out because it has correct colour contrasting with the background. This connotes that the author of the cover is doing the correct thing and making their products title stand out. Both staring towards the camera to be seen as professional, as well as smiling to make a good impression to show the audience how enjoyable sixth form is.

The background is green which is a professional choice of colour to choose because it presents a powerful foreground (the two students), and makes them stand out as a bigger figure. With the background being quite dull and boring it makes the reader focus less on the background and look at what is actually happening in detail rather then behind the characters.
The bottom of the cover includes a catchy slogan, which means that it can stay in your head for future references.

In conclusion to this, the magazine cover is well presented for its dedicated target audience, as there is a variety of fonts and sizes of fonts as well as colours used. It would appeal to those who are looking to achieve academically from GCSE standard to a level.

Introduction

Hello and welcome to my AS Media Blog.                                

Through the entirety of the next school year i shall be completing many posts each week consisting on coursework progression. As-well as taking notes from my lessons.

I plan to have gained a larger variety and understanding of media then i have in the past two years at GCSE.

brief

Print: Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the consents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidates (s), minimum of four images per candidate.