AICE Media Studies AS- DeLa, J

       Before the discussing and going over the magazines in class.  I  was unaware of the many details th ere  are included  when it comes to the art,  language , titles, captions, and structure .  One factor about magazines that I could see  from analyzing them in class is how important the structure of the magazine is.  Structure is one of the most important elements when creating a magazine because the structure of the magazine c ould change how entertaining or how boring a magazine  is.   According to the article “ Chances are you won't bother to read this article. It is just one long block of text, after all, unbroken by alluring pictures, snappy captions, or eye-grabbing info-graphics. You can't click it. You can't flip it. All you can do is read it. (Does Size Matter?)” it states that, “ "It is absolutely critical these days to reach out and grab the reader" says Playboy's Kaminsky. In his view, this means sto...

     Before watching the title sequences/ opening scenes of the movies I already knew that like other things such as essays, novels and other things introductions usually are put in place to inform readers/ viewers  on whatever that story is going to be about. However, after watching the clips and taking notes and going over them in class it made me realize how much I was missing from opening scenes in movies that you  must  be able to recognize to see them.  Also,  I saw how opening scenes   show a lot of what will happen during a film ,  but they also included foreshadowing and other hints to what specific things are going to happen within a film . Some exceptional examples of successful opening scenes would be from the movie  “ Scream ”  in which the opening scene you see the girl on the phone with a creepy stranger and gets terrorized by him. This opening scene was successful because it  not only gave the viewers an in...