Levi's Media A2 Blog

Digital technology is the way of how over the years it has become more developed than ever, allowing other users to create products from their own initiative. Softwares such as Photoshop, InDesign, Final cut pro and Logic Pro X all help allow the producer to experiment with different elements of a design.  For my AS coursework I was instructed to create a music magazine of my choice, however in A2 I created a horror genre film trailer which focused on the slasher sub-genre. Throughout the two years I have acknowledge the opportunity of being able to work with certain editing softwares that was accessible for me to utilize. I have also used these softwares to help me develop my work over the two years but more so in the second as my knowledge of them has increased.  Firstly I would like to start of with my Preliminary task that was to create a college music magazine. As this was completed in my first year my knowledge of the editing softwares was at amateur level, this meant ...

Real media text essay "Explain how significant were the Conventions of Real Media Texts in your development of creativity across your 2 years of production work." Real media texts all have conventions and rules which helps lead to their purpose. Typical conventions have the option of either being broken or followed due to the real media texts that are already exist it would seem that creativity has been limited as they set image for a real media text. With creating a real media text it is a necessity for the creator to involve semiotics as certain real media texts have a subtext allowing the audience to identify the denotation and connotation of the media text. In AS, my brief was to create a hip hop music magazine and to complete this successfully I had to identify typical conventions in a real media magazine relating it to the layout and structure, use of images and text, semiotics, what genre and the representation. First of all in AS we had to choose a music ...