Thursday 24 October 2013

Steph Assignment 3 Notes

Analysing print posters

Imagine Manipulation


  • It is important to remember that still images can be manipulated to make them look better than in real life. 
  • When you are looking at posters if there are young attractive men and women on them they have already been manipulated. 
  • Imagine manipulation is a technique to use to make skin look flawless/look skinnier etc etc
  • It is done to reel in young audience. To hook them and make us believe they look like that
  • Look at the text/Font/Size and colour of a poster, type of font/size of font could connotate
  • Connotate (Triggers a meaning. Red - Blood/Danger) 
  • Connotation of pink swirly writing could be girly/wedding things. 
  • This has happened a lot in magazine output. 
Props and settings

  • Prop is anything that the model/actor picks up.
  • Props can connotate things. (Gun - Violence. Rose - Romance)
  • Settings are important because it can help us work out the genre of the piece 

Figure expression and movement

  • In a poster movements are posed, movement are indicated. 
  • Young attractive male giving a come hither look attracts pre pubescent teenagers 
Iconography

  • Iconography is a media term for things linked with a genre.
  • Used in a sentence: There is an iconographic feature
  • Prop of a gun is an iconographic feature to an action genre. Prop of a knife is an iconographic feature to a horror genre. A laser gun is an iconographic feature for sci-fi films.


THINGS TO DO IN ASSIGNMENT 3:

Look at the posters and talk about how they have been altered to reel in an audience or to appeal to a certain audience.

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