SM Coursework

Taking an initial look at cross-media production, I begun researching lifestyle magazines. I have created a mood board of different lifestyle magazine covers, giving me a slightly narrower idea of the style of front cover I must produce.  Definition I have found two definitions for a lifestyle magazine that I believe to be most fitting and direct in what is expected with in a lifestyle magazine.  1. Lifestyle magazines, television programmes, and products are aimed at people who wish to be associated with glamorous and successful lifestyles. 2. A lifestyle magazine is popular magazine concerned with lifestyle. It includes a number of men’s magazines, women’s magazines and magazines about health and fitness, tourism, fashion, decorating, or culture. The concept is chiefly used in reference to a magazine’s tone. Immediately I noticed the similarity in shot use. Medium Close-ups and portrait style, with the person in focus placed in t...

XT. MONTAGE. WOOD. Asha running through woods. Last photo she has gone. Still action shots. Loud panting heard alongside the sound of faint flicking through a book. BLACK SCREEN. TITLE 'GLITCH' INT. BEDROOM. AFTERNOON Diegetic sounds. LOW (ISH) ANGLE. WORMS EYE VIEW. CAMERA PLACED IN CORNER OF ROOM. OVER THE SHOULDER. BCU REVERSE ZOOM TO CU of Jodie's face. Jodie folding her daughters clothes, placing them carefully onto the bed in piles. Cuts to door opening. CU OF THEO WALKING IN WITH A CUP OF TEA, PLACING IN ONTO THE DESK. THEO Have this then we'll head off. MCU PLACING TEA ON COASTER. MCU JODIE (sighs) THEO (sound of Jodie sipping the tea.) ECU OF JODIES LIPS Don't worry, we'll find her. It's only been 5 weeks. (there is a slight hesitation before he repeats "we'll" find her ECU OF STEAM COMING OUT OF THE MUG. (Jodie takes a deep breath) JODIE We can't keep looking, its done nothing. ...

In my textual analysis I noted down the common stylistic effects used in crime dramas. In terms of camera, extreme long shots are used to present a vulnerability of the characters, which I will use to enhance the size of the location really emphasising how finding her daughter is like finding a needle in a hay stack. Contradictory to that, extreme close-ups are often use to show emotion, I thought I could use this when the mother, Jodie, is talking about her missing daughter. I intend on using heightened colours, brightening up the light and dulling down the dark to create a contrast. In my editing process I want to create this image where everything is slightly distorted with its colour or brightness, but only so much that you notice there is an abnormality without picking up on what it is. My idea here is to reflect the idea of a futuristic, dystopian society from the one we live in today, using editing to enhance this. My production will appeal to its aud...