A2 Media Blog

In all types of media there are all different types of conventions, these conventions have specific rules that must be followed in order for an audience to be able to identify that product to a set of stereotypes. In film, it is the different genres and sub genres that all contain contrasting "ingredients" in order for them to be known as a part of that genre but also so they can be broken and reinvented. This widens creativity as the conventions will therefore have another meaning as to what they did in the first place and is how a lot of films and products today must do to stand out to crowds. In As, I created a music magaine front cover, a contents page and also a double page spread. However the conventions that I used I did not know the true deeper meaning behind them and why certain elements were placed a specific way. This therefore limited my creativity as I could not play around and use my own imagination to turn them into something unique. On the contrary, I did und...

At the beginning of my college year I did not have many creative skills to use towards my first college magazine which I produced myself with no extra help. I had already had experience in creativity with using cameras of smart phones but apps such as indesign and photoshop I was not very advanced at. For the college magazine also I did jot do any research ans planning of textual analysis and drafting, which effected the end result massively as I was not aware of the conventional layouts or colouring therefore it did not match existing college magazines. Also, since I did not do any drafting my first draft was my final draft and I had no practice so the magazine was not professional looking. However, for my music magazine there was a bit of research and planning completed so, I was able to gather conventional components that I could include/copy to make the magazine more recognisable to the chosen genre which was pop. For example, pop music magazines have bright and bold colours, the ...

The Technology used in today's world is completely different and much more advanced than ever before, the technology we use allows us to carry out more complex actions and the new apps that have been developed help us especially in the media, with the editing and production of films and everything else. For example, olden day movies used to be shot on monologue cameras which could not pan, track, tilt or zoom, this all had to be done manually. However today, it is even possible to shoot footage on our phones, since the camera quality has become so much more clear. Therefore, there is barely a limit to the creativity we can explore today, than there was 50 years ago. As for intertextuality, this idea comes from the saying of making something new out of something old, people are able to take ideas and concepts from different and existing media texts in order to try and create something modern that still has elements of the past. In simple terms, this idea can be seen as "copyin...