Magazine Article - Continued
Process of laying out the cover
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Evaluation Question part 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Magazine Article
How did you choose the name of your magazine and other
miscellaneous?
When it came to selecting the name of the magazine I decided
that the best course of action was to create a simple title that would go in
the right top corner of the article and so I went for ‘NYC Times’ with the
actual page being a film reviewing page simply called ‘New Films’. Here I followed the conventions of traditional
reviews in magazines by using devices such as drop caps when starting the
article and in addition to this using multiple pull quotes. In using these I
selected the best quotes to use in order to catch the reader’s attention and
pull them in. In conjunction with this I also added multiple pictures to take
away the plain feel of the magazine and instead liven it up.
Why did you choose the colour scheme that you used?
The reason I chose the pale blue colour scheme is because of
a number of reasons. The first being that after I had read a number of
different review pages I noticed that the articles that stood out the most were
ones with bold writing and images that stood out from the background and so
following this the background should be of a mellow nature putting the reader
at ease and focusing more on the writing and images rather than being
distracted by what was happening in the background. Furthermore upon asking
fellow classmates as to how my background worked in contrast with my previous
attempt (bright red) they said that it was clearer to read and much more
welcoming to read rather than aggressive. Also I decided to keep the bright red colour
scheme for the star rating system as it contrasted well with the blue and made
the article stand out from ordinary ones.
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Monday, 17 March 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Brief History of the Psychological Thriller
The Psychological Thriller genre has been constant, popular genre which we can see being used in some of the very early literature texts. It focuses on manipulating the audience, and the building of suspense. It has been popular with authors and film directors alike, as it captures and stimulates the audience in a way that is different to something of the horror genre, or the action genre. Psychological Thrillers, even if in a 'fantasy' setting, tend not to try and suspend the audience's belief of what is going on in the film. Thye have been known to commonly feature narrative points which are used to catch the audience members off guard; it builds up a high expectation, before making them feel uncertain of what they have just seen.
Examples in Literature:
The Count Of Monte Cristo (1844) is a swashbuckling revenge thriller in which the protagonist is betrayed by his friend and is sent to a prison in southern France from which he later escapes and seeks revenge. The story uses conventions such as revenge, power and betrayal which relate to the thriller genre.
Heart Of Darkness (1903) is a first person within a first person about a man who travels the who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader. Layer by layer, the atrocities of the human soul and man's inhumanity to man are peeled away. This could be seen nowadays as a psychological thriller because of the psychotic theme and conventions it contains.
Examples In Film:
Aflred Hitchcock's first thriller was the third silent movie The Lodger (1926) which was a Jack the Ripper story. This film was a psycho thriller because it dealt with a psychopath murderer and so had a typical story line of this genre. Hitchcock also produced thrillers such as Blackmail (1929)- his first sound film, Murder!, Number Seventeen,The Man Who New Too Much. These were all suspense films.
The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, told the story of a criminal deviant who preyed on children.
Theme of thrillers was the FBI/agent hunting a serial killer and the most famous example of this was the picture winning, The Silence Of the Lambs (1991) by Jonathan Demme. This was classified as a crime thriller but it also merged into the psycho thriller subgenre as it dealt with a psychological issues. David Fincher's Se7en (1995) is another example of a crime thriller that was famous.
The Psychological Thriller genre has been constant, popular genre which we can see being used in some of the very early literature texts. It focuses on manipulating the audience, and the building of suspense. It has been popular with authors and film directors alike, as it captures and stimulates the audience in a way that is different to something of the horror genre, or the action genre. Psychological Thrillers, even if in a 'fantasy' setting, tend not to try and suspend the audience's belief of what is going on in the film. Thye have been known to commonly feature narrative points which are used to catch the audience members off guard; it builds up a high expectation, before making them feel uncertain of what they have just seen.
Examples in Literature:
The Count Of Monte Cristo (1844) is a swashbuckling revenge thriller in which the protagonist is betrayed by his friend and is sent to a prison in southern France from which he later escapes and seeks revenge. The story uses conventions such as revenge, power and betrayal which relate to the thriller genre.
Heart Of Darkness (1903) is a first person within a first person about a man who travels the who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader. Layer by layer, the atrocities of the human soul and man's inhumanity to man are peeled away. This could be seen nowadays as a psychological thriller because of the psychotic theme and conventions it contains.
Examples In Film:
Aflred Hitchcock's first thriller was the third silent movie The Lodger (1926) which was a Jack the Ripper story. This film was a psycho thriller because it dealt with a psychopath murderer and so had a typical story line of this genre. Hitchcock also produced thrillers such as Blackmail (1929)- his first sound film, Murder!, Number Seventeen,The Man Who New Too Much. These were all suspense films.
The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, told the story of a criminal deviant who preyed on children.
Theme of thrillers was the FBI/agent hunting a serial killer and the most famous example of this was the picture winning, The Silence Of the Lambs (1991) by Jonathan Demme. This was classified as a crime thriller but it also merged into the psycho thriller subgenre as it dealt with a psychological issues. David Fincher's Se7en (1995) is another example of a crime thriller that was famous.
Friday, 7 March 2014
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