AICE Media Studies AS Level: Kevin P

Main sell line: Music To Cope With Stress  Subsequent sell lines:  Top 10 music genres to relieve stress  Adele speaks out on mental health  National Alliance on Mental Illness anniversary  School wide mental health campaigns Analyzing educational stressors  Understanding personal stressors  Stress vs anxiety  Mental health stigma among family and friends  Calming colors  Top 10 games to relieve stress

 

Magazine: Youth Renown   Release Date: End of March  Promotion Methods/ Social Media:  Instagram Youth Renown profile picture  Posts teasing the magazine cover Posts teasing the featured articles  Magazine release post  Stories allowing viewers to rate and guess on what the cover and feature articles might include  Twitter Youth Renown profile picture  Photos of my cover and featured articles once they are released  Upload the magazine itself as well as a link to it and its website  Allows me to view the analytics of each tweet relating to my magazine to see who sees it and how many see it  Facebook Youth Renown profile picture  Repost what is posted on Instagram through its linking feature  Youtube Youth Renown profile picture  Video on the process of organizing the magazine Unseen shots of taking the photos for my magazine  Interviews on readers of the magazine 

Intended Genre and Codes & Convention Genre: Mental Health  Conventions:  Masthead  “Youth Renown” in bold and the chosen font to get the name of the magazine across Featured articles  Two articles, “Music To Cope With Stress” and “Colors For Calmness” that tie into the genre of mental health and the sub genre of stress Cover image An image of the sunrise at the beach that ensues a calming sensation with my chosen color palette  Barcode  Issue # Taglines  Emphasize certain words such as stress and anxiety  Coverlines  Entice the readers through a short and catchy summary Audience: Target Audience: ages 13-21  Stress is a condition that affects everybody, but as teenagers go through their highschool years they are more prone to educational and personal stressors. This magazine targets those in highschool and college through the color scheme and featured articles. When one undergoes a certain rush of stress many turn to different ways to cope, one being music. Through its different b

 

  Photos:  iPhone 11 Pro: This phone will allow me to capture background shots of my process in taking sunrise photos with the Nikon camera that I could then use on my blog Nikon Camera: Using a professional camera will allow me to capture high quality photos of the sunrise and using my friends in different placements  Editing:  Canva: Canva provides usable templates and different elements to add to my spread design  Flipsnack: This is an online website that allows me to create my magazine design with a user friendly system  Photoshop: This adobe platform allows me to edit my photos with different settings that would fit the theme of my magazine DaFont: This website provides several different fonts and categories such as Script and Sans that will allow me to determine the perfect font for my product Photo Credits: No Film School

            As part of an AICE Media assignment, we analyzed another students blog from another high school in Florida. For reference, here is the blog I chose to analyze:  movie-opener-brainstorming-research.html     In this blog, the student analyzed nine different opening film sequences and dove deeper into the text used, sound and lighting effects, and the misc-en-scene pursued by each film. Each different film such as  OFFLINE   and  Dare to Thrill  had their own unique factors through camera shots and inducing feels set up the rest of the film.       The film OFFLINE was a drama released in 2012 centered around a recently released prisoner and his attempt to build back his life. The student described the typewriter like introduction and title sequence of the film and how it created the suspenseful meaning in the rest of it. It is interesting to see the effects that certain fonts and the way the title sequence is delivered on movie and what the audience feels. There were also cont

  A masthead is a recurring theme in a magazine. After researching and analyzing different magazines I realized that mastheads usually depicted the name of the magazine itself. I decided to take time and come up with my magazines name, “Youth Renown”, and came up with the following mastheads.