Editing

Everything that is in the media has been edited, either to make the person 'better' looking or to add a effect to make the picture stand out more. So for one of our tasks we had to edit three pictures, a close-up shot, mid shot and a long shot. For my close-up shot I took a picture of Kiera Knightly. I've not edited her face at all but I've given the picture a colour background, and I put a darker shade round her head then I used the burn tool to make her hair a shade darker and then used the smudge tool to slightly blend her hair into the background. The original unedited images are the bottom images and the ones I've edited are the top images.

 For the mid image I edited a picture of Mila Kunis. For this I increased the brightness, sharpness and the colour to give it a warmer tint to it. 

                                             

 

For the long shot I chose a picture of Cara Delevigne. On this picture I cut her out and pasted her 3 times. I then added a gradient to the left of the picture which was black and white and on the right of the picture I took away the black and white effect slightly so you can see her skin tone.

 

 

Mood Board

To create a school magazine I had to make a mood board, this will help me to get the colours and shades I want for my magazine. The main school colours off our school are green, yellow and black. These are the main 3 colours I am going to incorporate in my magazine.

What is an audience?

Throughout media and Film studies audience is one of the most frequently used terms. It’s a massive part of film, TV programmes and all other types of media. Overall audience helps the media industry to find out whether there programme, film, magazine etc. is worth presenting to the public. An audience is something that we tend to analyse at a distance, making generalisations about it, how we feel about it, what it means. It’s also something in which we are involved in, whether we like it or not.

We are part of an audience. We decide whether a film is good or not, we choose what magazines we buy, we watch TV programmes. This means that companies can find out what the public enjoy or like, they can find out what different target audience's like. There are loads of small compartments that creates an 'audience' this could be age group, gender, class, ethnic etc. Even if you don't want to, you are part of an audience.

My own definition of audience is 'audience is everyone, the media give us films, books, TV programmes, magazines etc. and we judge them based on our own personal likes and dislikes.'