Music Mag Questionnaire

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Semiotics

Semiotics is the concept that everything used (in a magazine for example) has a reason for being that specific way (for example a Female based magazine being Pink or a cookery book having a kitchen background). These are used in all magazines to subliminally attract the potential buyer of the magazine to actually purchase the mag... one way semiotics is demonstrated is with the "Male Gaze" theory produced by Laura Mulvey. The Male Gaze is the theory that women are very effective at maintaining the concentration and focus of heterosexual men due to the sexual desire of the men acting upon the women, thus subliminally attracting the men to the films the women played in. This theory is detailed below...

InDesign

InDesign is a professional program which allows you to create a series of professionally tailored documents for a variety of scenarios (ours being a magazine). the excellent features of the program would allow us to create a professional-standard magazine for our studies by boasting such features as Gutters, Orphans and Widows, Wide Varieties of Text Formats and many other incredible features.

The above is an example of a magazines bare skeleton features with a title, tagline, picture and text with the use of all the features mentioned above.

Photoshop

Photoshop is a program which allows the user to alter images in any way possible, for better or for worse. Photoshop is often used to correct photos which have flaws in them (Red Eye, Spots, Etc) by removing the infringing elements of the photos in very advanced and effective ways, photos often maintain their natural character and you can very rarely notice Photoshop as it's ability to alter images whilst maintaining realism is second to none.

We used Photoshop to edit anything from people faces who needed spots removing with the Spot Removal tool, to completely removing bottles from a wall whilst trying to maintain the background of the picture.

Feminism

Over time, views of women in the media have dramatically changed as in this day and age we see respected female musicians get the gratitude they deserve, however going back 50 years and women were often indirectly scrutinised by male publishers of music magazines, whereas musicians like Adele are commended on their vocal ability and lyrical genius, 50 years ago in comparative to Adele, Marianne Faithful was often compared to cute animals and not given any graduation as a musician in her own right. This is just one of many examples of how feminism has altered the view society has on women and how women have used this to their advantage to gain their rightful honour musically.

Site I Like

http://www.apple.com/uk/

I chose the Apple website as I like the use of simplicity in every aspect of the site, I feel it portrays a professional image of the company and thus would make me more likely to purchase an Apple product, as i have purchased Apple Earphones and an Apple Ipod.

28 Weeks Later. Trailer, Film Trailer

An apt use of music and camera angles+effects helps create the overall feel of the film "28 Weeks Later" by using fast, intense and jumpy camera angles along with eerie, depressing music to characterise the scenario. these are the key features of a successful advertisement for almost every horror film in existence.