AICE Media Studies AS- Love, K

     Everyone reads magazines somewhere whether they’re  at home, in the checkout line at the grocery store, or even at the doctor's office. In  today’s world with our  ever-expanding  technology, magazines are becoming less and less popular.  According  to  Keith Blanchard who was quoted by Michael Schere,  our  curren t generation has a   “ shorter attention spans than any previous generation; they are chronically over-stimulated and easily bored ...People just don't have as much time to read" Many of the magazines we went over in class had a lot of pages that were just pictures, no actual wording or paragraphs, just pictu re. I n class we reviewed many different  types of magazines such as Oprah, Cosmopolitan, Vouge, Motor Tre nd,  and Sports illustrated . Most magazines have a specific target audience . Some target  women, some target men, some target both.      I'll  start with the O...

             I have seen my fair share of movies during my life. I spend  most of my time watching movies  either on TV with my parents or alone on Netflix. Before watching these clips of the opening sequences of films, I never put too much thought into them, just that they we re cool. Sometimes if  I'm  not fully engrosse d into the  movie,  I try to think about elements such as foreshadow but not as much symbolism and others.   I believe that the opening scene can have a big impact on the audience as well as the rest of the film . As said by Miles  Merril, the author of  First frames: titles in the digital realm, “ The  typography and visual style created in the opening sequence can establish the mood and image system not only for the film you are about to watch, but for the poster, DVD/video packaging, web site, and all promotion and branding graphics ”.   If a movie has a bad or  bori...