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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