CD Cover Textual Analysis

The font used  by this contrasts well with the style of the album cover, using the messy ink spill against the uniform print of the font, though it works well with the "FRESH INK" part, due to them being the same colour. Despite the name of the album cover, which connotes new starts, new beginnings, etc, black as a colour connotes death and depression, sadness. It gives the title of the album and the artist, though aside from that, it's very minimalistic and leaves a lot to the imagination, which can pique curiosity of the viewer, possibly making them buy it.

Unlike the other two covers, it uses a very clear background, using paper still, though the messiness is very much in the foreground, using messy ink patterns that haven't filled coloured anything in, as well as the satellite, where the ink has bled slightly into the paper. The front and back cover have a direct link, of satellites, and works with some of the songs, like "Blast Off" and "Space Escape", having a theme of space. The album is bright, though the font makes it seem a bit more sinister or sad than first expected.

The album is is dull, and the background is messy, scrunched up and dirt ridden paper, despite letters and post being fairly classy things, it contrasts with how messy the handwriting is, no punctuation, ink blots and a fairly dull looking post stamp. it's minimalistic, but from the title and the art style used, it'd be a fair assumption to say it would be part of the "emo" genre.

Magazine Analysis - PC Gamer

PC Gamer-

Age: 12-25

Economic Range: C, D, E

Audience: Men

Masthead: 

Displays the name of the magazine in bold, red and black as the iconic logo, though it doesn't take the top spot, the "free DLC" advert trying to draw people more than just the name of the magazine alone.

Main Image: 

A Counter Terrorist holding a gun, his gaze not on the audience, but looking "off screen" in an attempt to draw the readers attention to find out what he's looking at and what he's doing. The image is gritty, and follows the games art style, as a small representation of what it might be like.

Coverlines: 

Pop out to the target audience, with things like "E-sports gone wrong!" that instinctively makes people want to read it to see what people did wrong. "Secrets of Simcity" works similarly, since most people are interested in secrets, even if they're fictional/meaningless to them.

Main Coverline: 

Rather than using a proper method alluding to an article, they say something inherently interesting to draw the reader in. Call of Duty is a big name brand, that most households and people know about, especially the gaming community, so "Shot at the crown" is a very powerful statement to be throwing around, especially since a lot of gamers will know the name.

Mise En Scene;
The scene is set in a school, from the costume uniforms, the books, sheets, bleachers, track field, etc.
The music video choreography is about the singer and the other schoolgirls leaving school. It shows them tearing up papers, celebrating, dancing, etc, in preparation for prom. They're highly styled and very modernised with hair dyes, short skirts and heavily sexualised, which is also referenced in the song, with the bus driver double taking along with the store owner later, connoting the confidence the song is meant to inspire.

Camera;
The camera is on the singer for most of it, with close ups of her singing or dancing, as is typical in a music video, though in the wind down of the song it uses establishing shots to show the scene and to sort of give insight to their actions and what they're doing, in this case, buying new dresses/clothes for prom in celebration for leaving school/"breaking the rules"

Editing;
The shots don't transition too quickly, and are mostly in time with the song, changing with the beats so it feels more "natural". It offers jump cuts to show movement near the start for the singer and her clique, making them feel and look more important due to them walking slowly but being artificially sped up by the cuts of image.

Lighting:
The lighting is mostly natural, though the filter placed over it makes it very high key, bright to connote happiness and joy. Even at the end of it, in the particularly dark area, it's still brightly lit, despite when the chaperone pours the paint over them, since they're still particularly happy.

Sound:
The sound is purely non-diegetic, all natural sound is removed and replaced with the song, with no exception, since the music video itself is secondary to the song itself. The song references the video, since they're tearing their schoolbooks and papers apart talking about "breaking the rules"


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Mise En Scene;
The start of the programme starts in a forest, and is primarily set in a suburban area, the costumes are quite normal, and are typical of what normal people would be wearing at the time of day. Attention to detail was placed in, since the man was meant to be running, sweat patches can be seen on his clothes. In the forest, bugs and other carrion are seen, which immediately connotes death or murder, due to the nature of the insects. In the suburban area, however, it's very quaint and nice, making it seem like a normal place to be, not a place where a murder would take place.

Camera;
When the protagonist runs in the forest, the camera constantly pans to him, the focus of the scene being on him and supposedly what he's running from, though it never shows the audience, keeping them in suspense. The camera is mechanically still, not hand-held, to give it a more professional, constructed feel to the scene itself. It makes it seem more cold, less personal to the audience.

Editing;
The shots transition as expected, when the scene reaches an end and the new one begins, with basic cuts from scene to scene.

Lighting;
Low key, natural lighting is used at the start of the episode, to show the dire situation that the protagonist is in, despite this, very little information is given to the viewer. After it's revealed that the protagonist found a dead body, and the time skips, it changes very suddenly to high key lighting, though, despite how happy and bright it should seem, it's juxtaposed onto the very depressing and real situation at hand, which shows that the show itself is going to be pseudo-realistic, since they're not trying to artificially change the scene too much, thus we can expect a more gritty, and dark theme from the rest of the series.

Sound:
Music is put in suspenseful moments, especially when he's running away from the body near the start, though after they've actually discovered the body, though it fades to the back when it cuts to the scene where the police have set a perimeter around the body, with mostly diegetic sounds of police cars, the bustle of people moving about in forensic suits, and the dialogue.

X Factor - Two Contestants

Before the audition starts, there're cuts to a few people in the audience, as well as the judges themselves, who're obviously a bit skeptical, since the few people that do sing their own songs, are almost iconically terrible.

When the audition starts, the main focus is on the contestant, Lucy Spraggan, to put emphasis on her, since it's almost "her moment". Since she's normal looking, twenty, from Sheffield, selling baby photos on the hightstreet, which contrasts with the sort of high fame moment she's being given, live audition. It often uses close ups or mid shot to show her in centre frame. It will occasionally cut away onto the judges looking to each other, as if in "disbelief" or some sort of excitement that they've found someone they think has talent. The cameraman also cuts away often, since her song is comedic, pausing for people when they laugh, cutting to judge reactions, and the crowd.

Class

                                               

In this article, a middle class worker (counsellor, three children) contracted HIV from her boyfriend because he didn't reveal he had it to her, this is an incredibly negative representation, see the "before and after", which shows her before, and her now just a few years later, with her holding the pills she has to have everyday so she doesn't contract AIDS.  This is incredibly negative representation, since it shows her when she was happy, compared to now, when she looks much older, more depressed. The value of the media producer is to raise awareness in a way, to show how devastating something like this can be and to try to shock/scare the public into being more cautious about their partners.

Sexuality

In this article Jim Parson, the actor who plays Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory" a comedic sitcom made by Chuck Lorre, comes out as a homosexual, which breaks stereotype, as in the show, he acts as one of the main characters, being an introverted, nerdy and socially inept character who's cold and calculating, which is a positive representation, as it shows that not ALL homosexuals act the way they are stereotyped to. The values of the producer of this article is to do the tabloids job for them, to get it out onto the web without much care as to the person who suffers from the backlash of such harmful media, as it makes an almost passive aggressive talk about the gay community for "gay stars".

Age

Logan's Run is set in a dystopian future in which everyone lives a hedonistic and self centred life style, but are forced to attend something called "Carousel" a ritual sort of thing that requires the people to have to willingly kill themselves in order for the system to work. This happens at age 30. This puts a lot of the film's focus on age, due to the fact that anyone over thirty either accepts their fate for the good of the society, or they become a "runner" and are hunted down. This representation is incredibly negative, as people are not just discriminated at old age, because they never really reach old age, they're just killed. The producer of Logan's Run did still include the elderly, near the end having found outer civilisation for runners, there was shock in seeing someone that old, having only lived inside the society for years. The producer represented them in a positive light, as they are, in actuality, the good guys, and that the society was wrong.

Gender

The Hunger Games are set in a dystopian future in which people have to compete in the "Hunger Games" as a punishment, but also as a reminder of past events. The Hunger Games themselves are a televised death match for the purpose of entertainment for the "Capitol". One male and one female are taken from each district for it. Katniss Everdeen volunteers when her sister is taken, and acts as the main protagonist for the films, and books. Throughout all of it, she uses her wit, might and strength to survive, which breaks convention for most action films, since they often have strong male roles. She's represented in a very positive light, and throughout most of it, she doesn't simply just use brute force to make it through, mostly relying on her own wit and survival skills.