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Reggae Research

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Reggae  and it's history : Reggae is a style of music which was originated in the late 1960s in Jamaica. Reggae music denotes modern style pop music in Jamaica. The lion of Judah was also one of the titles of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and was depicted on the flag of Ethiopia from 1897-1974. Due to its association with Selassie, it continues to be an important symbol among members of the Rastafari movement  The Lion in reggae means; is the lion of Judah, which is a title of the Ethiopian Emperor Selassie and this is used due to it's association with Selassie, creating an important symbol amongst the Rastafarian movement. "Rastafarian" is an Abrahamic religion, which is classed as a social movement and a religious movement, which was developed in Jamaica. The symbol they use is to represent peace, which is correlated into the Rastafarian religion. Started from Jamaican folk music - back to slavery, talk about experiences in slavery. From that...

2B

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Upon completion of your analysis into the technical elements of digital graphics, you are to write a report on the purpose of each when communicating to their audiences. You are too address the client brief, context of the product, its target audience, what it is marketing or selling and how this message is being communicated. The following messages and meanings are to be addressed   Mood and atmosphere , e.g. urban, traditional, reliable, cutting edge, dynamic Genre , e.g. horror, romance, comedy Ideology : values, e.g. political, religious or personal ideology, corporate values Brand identity , e.g. humorous, formal, classic, youthful. How is this achieved through the use of; composition point of focus colour proportion basic semiotics typography shape   For the poster, the mood and atmosphere are like sad and emotional, the genre is like  and this is represented through the use of technical ...

Evaluation - Unit3

What were the aims of the brief from your chosen charity / campaign, and did you achieve them? What were your original ideas and how did these develop throughout the project? How well did you plan out your short film? Evaluate strengths and weaknesses What were the strengths and weaknesses during filming? Which editing skills did you develop and how could you improve in this area? What were the aims of the brief from your chosen charity / campaign, and did you achieve them? The aims of the brief for my charity was to raise awareness for cyber bullying and help people who are afraid of telling someone that they're experiencing bullying and that their not alone and, they shouldn't have to fight alone. They can call BullyingUk and they'll help.  And we'd do this by creating the video showing someone experiencing cyber bullying, and thought he could get away but in the end it happens again, so he rings up bullyingUK and he gets the help he needs. I fe...

Magazine questionaire

Which magazine idea would you prefer?   Why? What colour scheme would work best; blue & white, red & black, blue & green, yellow & green or black & white? What magazine would you most likely purchase? Why? What game would you like to see in the magazine? What musician artist/album would you like to see in the magazine? Which idea would create a better magazine?   Why? What would make my magazine unique? Is the purpose for my magazine relevant to my content? Do my mood boards reflect my magazine clearly? If no, why? Rate each magazine from 1 to 10 and give a short explanation for what is good and what I could improve.                             Thank you fo...

Task 2A - POSTER, WEBSITE & MOVING IMAGE

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This is a real campaign poster for a charity called 'Islamic Relief', where they raise awareness for Islamic countries which are in poverty, and struggling to survive by not having the simple essentials of food, water, shelter or even clothes. This specific poster is about misreporting Muslims and how the media portray Muslims as today and create this vicious Islamophobia amongst the public viewers, which cause the people in these bad conditions to be forgotten about and less people care about to donate too. -- The typography used in this campaign poster has two different style of fonts . The font used to address the  problem is shown as the title; "Misreporting - ", this is just simple, capitalised and bold font . This may be used to connote how serious the poster is trying to be and this use of typography , stands out most clearly to audience as it works well with the background. The second half of the title "- Muslims", is written in a differe...

SWOT ANALYSIS

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Strength Weakness Opportunities Threats -- -- Strength and Opportunities, these are the two key terms made to ask what helpful objectives you've achieved. Whereas, weakness and threats are the terms to ask what objectives you achieved and if their harmful - The good side you've done and the bad side, example; What Went Well and Even Better If. The acronym SWOT, is generally used so you can structure your planning method and how you use the four elements (S,W,O,T) for a project - school work, a business venture or an organisation. -- -- 1st SWOT - Gaming The strengths for my gaming magazine is that it's very unique because this magazine is about a new released game which has been vastly shared across media and even celebrities play and know about the game. It's very unique as a magazine because since it's a new game, there's no magazine about Fornite and I'm trying and aiming to be one of the first to create this magazine. My...

Task1c

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You are to choose at least 3 different media sectors and compare and analyse the use of different digital media graphics within those media sectors. You are to choose from the following: Moving image : motion graphics, e.g. title sequences for films, television and digital gaming Digital publishing graphics , e.g. e-magazines, DVD or CD covers, promotional materials Website design graphics, e.g. educational, corporate, entertainment Digital gaming graphics, e.g. PC, handheld, consoles or mobile gaming. Moving image: (typography, birds eye view, colour - vibrant, circus, bright, candy.  motion graphic, point of focus) For this media sector of moving image, I have chosen a popular TV Soap opera called 'Hollyoaks' as shown through the screenshots I have taken. These screenshots are shots from the very beginning and then end, to show how they used different graphics styles to produce their shows title; typography, col...