Media essay question
Q: Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your own creative media practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.
Firstly over the course of the two years I feel conventions play a vital role in being successful with real media texts. I say this because to create a real media text it seems following the same function will allow a piece to become successful in its own way as it coincides with the real media text. If leading away from the typical conventions opens a route for originality which can be taken positively or negatively. With such a wide variety typical media text the audience already know what to expect. This also prompts the question of how successful those media texts are? Which in response would be mostly as the media text have applied the typical conventions of a media text, therefore allowing the audience to relate to the media text. Throughout the two years I have understood on a deeper level of how certain conventions may connote and denote different interpretations, such as the main dominant image and how important it is for the audience to focus their attention on it.
To develop this in my AS year I was instructed to create a hip hop magazine and to help me I had real hip hop magazines which influenced me into mimicking their typical conventions such as layout, use of images & text and the representation of the magazine. Furthermore to complete this accurately I had to also identify them, Main image for my magazine had to be the vocal point of my magazine as typical conventions of real media texts portray the artists as having jewellery, casual clothing for costume such as tracksuits and other accessories as well. More subsequently with the applying most of these conventions my magazine could’ve been improved, due to the fact that I didn’t apply the background wih my image making it look unconventional. Furthermore with following the correct colour scheme from my real media text basic conventional aspects of a magazine didn’t seem to hard to follow. In addition the colour scheme black and yellow could be classed as a typical colour scheme for a hip hop magazine as the ideal colours help represent my target audience of 17-25 and connote the nature of fear and nature.
Q: Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your own creative media practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.
Firstly over the course of the two years I feel conventions play a vital role in being successful with real media texts. I say this because to create a real media text it seems following the same function will allow a piece to become successful in its own way as it coincides with the real media text. If leading away from the typical conventions opens a route for originality which can be taken positively or negatively. With such a wide variety typical media text the audience already know what to expect. This also prompts the question of how successful those media texts are? Which in response would be mostly as the media text have applied the typical conventions of a media text, therefore allowing the audience to relate to the media text. Throughout the two years I have understood on a deeper level of how certain conventions may connote and denote different interpretations, such as the main dominant image and how important it is for the audience to focus their attention on it.
To develop this in my AS year I was instructed to create a hip hop magazine and to help me I had real hip hop magazines which influenced me into mimicking their typical conventions such as layout, use of images & text and the representation of the magazine. Furthermore to complete this accurately I had to also identify them, Main image for my magazine had to be the vocal point of my magazine as typical conventions of real media texts portray the artists as having jewellery, casual clothing for costume such as tracksuits and other accessories as well. More subsequently with the applying most of these conventions my magazine could’ve been improved, due to the fact that I didn’t apply the background wih my image making it look unconventional. Furthermore with following the correct colour scheme from my real media text basic conventional aspects of a magazine didn’t seem to hard to follow. In addition the colour scheme black and yellow could be classed as a typical colour scheme for a hip hop magazine as the ideal colours help represent my target audience of 17-25 and connote the nature of fear and nature.
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