Shot and Angle Types

Shot Types

Close-Up: 

Mid-Shot: 

Wide-Shot: 

Dutch Tilt:

High Angle: 

Long Shot: 

Low Angle: 

Pan: Lens moves left of right. Camera stays in the same position

Tilt: Lens moves up and down. Camera stays in the same position

Extreme close-up: 

Point of view: 

Noddy shot: Used to show a person's reaction. Person usually in left of right third of the       frame.

LIIAR analysis of a magazine front cover

LIIAR Analysis of a magazine front cover

Language: The language used is relevant to the intended audience. For example, the promotional banner in the bottom-right corner refers to an NFL player by his nickname "Big Ben". Most people who aren't sports fans won't know who "Big Ben" is so it is only relevant to sports fans. Also the sub-heading "BCS Champs" is only relevant to sports fans because "BCS" refers to a division of a college championship so as with my first point, non-sports fans probably won't know what this means. If it was intended for a general audience, they would have used a simpler term.

Institution: The institution of this magazine is Sports Illustrated

Ideology: The ideology of this magazine is to give sports fans more information and analysis of the main sports in the USA.

Audience: This magazine has to appeal to sports fans. It does this by using a big, high-quality picture of an American Football player to catch the consumer's eye. The name of the publication is big and in orange because the player on the cover is/was a Florida Gators player and their colours are white, blue and orange so the title represents them.

Representation: 

Conventions of a magazine cover

Conventions of a magazine front cover

• Masthead
• Usually have a medium close-up of a person
• Skyline
• Subheadings
• Barcode
• Promotional Banner
• Issue Number
• Caption
• Price
• Sell Lines
• Footer
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Preliminary exercise and Main task

Preliminary exercise
Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task
The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.