Year 9 Media Studies

CD Cover Activity Now that you've completed research into existing CD Album covers, choose a music artist that you like and create the CD cover artwork for a new release. Even though most people stream music the artwork is still very important. You need to invent the title of the album and decide on the style of CD cover you are going to make.    TASK 1 - Create a mood-board of at least 30 images which reflect your chosen artist. Use word or publisher to do this. TASK 2 - Think about how you want your artist to be represented. Underneath your mood-board, explain how and why you will represent your artist. What did you find from your mood-board that you will include in your work and how will you do this? TASK 3 - Begin designing your CD cover using the checklist below  Choose THREE colours. One for the background, one for the name of your artist and one for the name of your album. Put these onto a word document and explain why you have chosen th...

Your task is to research CD cover/ album (vinyl) cover art. Pick three or four music artists that you like and research the artwork (only album cover art is permitted) that accompanies their musical releases.  Google the artists name and look for their discography on wikipedia. Save examples of their work and make a document that displays them effectively. Answer the following questions for each piece of artwork: What works best about the image that has been selected? Why has that particular image been selected and what is effective about it? How is the artist being represented in the artwork? What colours (colour palette) have been used? What effect do the colours have on the overall piece of artwork? What type of font has been used?  What is so effective about the fonts chosen? How would you make the cover better? Artwork for Tyler, The Creator's solo albums

Do you believe these characters are real? A writer's job is tricky, especially with science fiction genre TV Drama programmes. They must engage the audience and make them invest in the characters in order to deliver a satisfying narrative resolution.  Class is made for BBC 3, a channel that caters for young people. So you can expect the characters to seem realistic because the target audience need to believe they are seeing themselves presented as real people. Task: Watch the trailer again and jot down any elements of the characters that make them seem like realistic teenage characters. In media lessons, you will be finding out how teenagers are represented in TV Drama and thinking about whether they are fairly and accurately portrayed by writers or whether they are heavily stereotyped. Do you think teenagers are presented using traditional stereotypes or do they seem more realistic in the programmes that you enjoy watching? It is usual for teen characters to be oversimplifi...

Stereotype (brief definition): 'a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing'. Are teenagers represented in a fair way in the media? Find a variety of images representing the typical teenager. Is it easy to find positive images or are most of them negative? What are the reasons for this? Research Task: Collect a range of images (at least 10) of teenagers, both positive and negative. Make a mood board or poster using these images. ( use Photoshop ). Print out and stick in your book. Find three news articles which involve teenage stars. Copy and paste the headline and relevant text from these. Print out and stick in your book. Using these images and articles as your evidence, answer the following questions: What you think the key stereotypes are that teenagers have to cope with?  Do you think these are fair or not?  In your opinion are teenagers represented accurately in the media? Give reasons f...

Representation Understanding representation is all about understanding the choices that are made when it comes to portraying something or someone in a mass media text. It's impossible to portray every aspect of an individual in a photograph, or even in a feature film, so certain features of their personality and appearance get highlighted, and are often enhanced, when it comes to constructing the representation that the audience will see. When representing a person, media texts often focus on their:   Age Gender Race/Ethnicity Financial Status Job Culture/nationality Signs and symbols are used as a kind of visual shorthand to represent these attributes. When we decode these signs we make assumptions about who the character is (usually by comparing them to similar characters we have encountered before), and this allows us to put them in a category and "read" them in context. For instance, when constructing characters for a TV or movie scene the producers ...

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Make two CD covers (follow the instructions below).  Save as a jpeg and email to me:  fordn@lutterworthcollege.com CD Cover Activity Choose two different music artists and make two CD covers.  These can be for existing albums or for ones you have invented yourself.  One must include an artistic image that you feel links to the artist (see example above for American alternative band Sonic Youth). One must include an image of the artist (see example below for American rapper Kanye West). PHOTOSHOP FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Where do I find it? In the start menu, select - all programmes - common programmes - Adobe Production Premium - PhotoShop (64bit) How do I get started? In the upper left select - file - new (In the Preset drop down menu select Custom) What page size do I need? CD covers are SQUARE, alter the height and width to 120mm . Ensure the colour mode is 8bit, the resolution is 300...