A2 Media

Conventions are needed in any type of media because they have purpose, when following convention it can make your work successful because you are following guidelines to what in the past have made that type of media profitable. However sometimes they can also be broken which is a risk but in some cases for example casting an unknown actor for a huge film e.g. the hunger games could have let the film down however it did the opposite so it depends. In addition to convention making the films successful by following rules there is also audience expectation; conventions are repeated so the audience become used to stock characters, scenes or props for that specific genre. However when a media goes against the norm it now becomes original as it isn’t following the conventions but again can be a risk as the audience may not recognize or enjoy it because of the lack of audience expectation. In my AS, my brief was to create a Music magazine front cover, contents page and double page sprea

My research and planning has developed immensely throughout the 2 years; by doing thorough and more detailed research and planning in addition I have also selected relevant information to help me improve my production, an example of this is when we were deciding on what Horror sub-genre we were going to use for our creation, we done research into the different sub-genres and how they have evolved over time and also researching which sub-genre was the most popular now especially with the target audience of young adults. In AS when created our preliminary of the School magazine, I didn’t do the substantial amount of research and planning for this production, which led to the production being unsuccessful. In addition to this because I hadn’t done planning before creating the magazine I didn’t have the format of what the school magazine was going to look like or what magazine conventions were to make it look realistic. This lack of research and planning limited my ability to create a

Creativity Creativity is the making of the new and the rearranging of the old. In AS I created a music magazine and in A2 a Horror trailer and Horro poster with the the A2 project I was able to use the skills I had learnt from my creation of the music magazine. One of the skills I learn't from As was using the camera, for the music magazine I had to take a number different photo shoots to perfect the photographs for my magazine. So when taking the photographs for my Horror Poster I used the skills I gained from my first project which were lighting; getting the correct lighting to enhance the model and make the photograph stand out. I also was more aware of the camera settings flash/no flash, aperture, manual focus or automatic all in which helped me create improved photographs for my Horror poster. These skills have helped me creativily because I have been able to make my poster look more realistic and authentic. Another skill I was able to improve thought out my second p