Preliminary Task: Textual Analysis

denotation: the magazine shows a basketball coach on the front of a college for basketball, it is a medium long shot as it shows his body from his waist upwards. he is standing on a basketball court and has a ball on his finger. hes smiling and he's the only person in the picture and there no one else in the back ground. he has a dark blue shirt on which stands out on the magazine. his picture takes up half of the magazine with the writting on the other side and a big title going across the whole magazine.

conotation: the man who looks like hes the coach of the basketball team is standing with a very relaxed posture and is smiling which could resemble as long as you get good grades and play well, it will be very easy and relaxing, he is also the only one in the picture so it also shows that the more you try and work hard the more you will stand out from the others.

the colour of his shirt is a dark blue but it still stands out, it looks like hes wearing a college shirt, which is showing the people that are iterested that they will be provided with all they need on the basketballl side of things, and all they need to do it come and get the grades that will help the progress and also have something to fall back on.

his NVC is very calm and relaxed has heis smiling and the ball is on his finger, making everything look effortless, plus the man looks quiet old so it shows that if you put it the work everything would become effortless to you aswell you just got to put in the work.

the picture is very bright and shows the definition of the writting and the picture it has a minimum amount of writting but the title is very bold and could be the name of the college aswelll as the basketball team at the top of the magazine it shows a band saying alton sports showing that its an american college, and they have a sponsor so if you play for them you could possibly get scouted. it is also the company that owns the college as it has the website under the title.

the setting is very minimal and very standard with basketball court appearing from a white background but the contrast could show the colour of the clouds and that they sky is the limit in this college and you can achieve alot.

Induction: Movie Poster Textual Analysis

Denotation: this is a image of a man who is set for and adcenture, he looks like he is peparing for a epic journey has he has a signature whip in his hand a strap on bag and also a gun in his waist holster. this image shows that he is strong stood with a fim posture and looks like he is set himself out to compelete a mission. he is wearing very dark and dirty clothes which could mean that he is hard working and doesnt fair anything, plus with the old historical background near the bottom could show that he his a archaeologist.

connotation: the meaning to his whip and gun shows that he is pepared for what is going to be ahead of hm, it also shows there may be danger along him journey in which case he has them to protect himself. the way he is stood at the bottom of the stairs shows that he is about to enter or just finshed his journey and he is strong minded and is going to come out on top. the skull behind him also brings out the meaning of danger which may be in this path along with the fire, he is also inside a cave which also tells us that he is a araeologist and what ever he finds in his journey will have a historical background which may or may not be revealed within the film.

his non verbal communication shows that with his stron posture and his clentched fist shows that he is ready for action and is not going to back down from a fight or a chanllenge. the light in the picture s comming from the skull which could mean that the only way to end his journey is by defeating a certain enemy or creature at the end which will mark his journey as a success.

Induction: Re-creation of a movie magazine front cover

This was my first properly done piece on photoshop, it was a basic task with just copy the style and look of a magazine covers front page. i knew how to manipulate the text that i had wirtten into the style and shape of the orginal, but it wasnt exactly the same. when the more harder parts cropped up i was unable to proceed with them has it wasnt in my capability of knowning how to use photoshop.

know that i am more familiarised with photoshop after using it a couple more times at home and in other lessons, i am confident in my own capability to use photoshop mopre confidently and would be able to re do this magazine cover to a higher standard which it currently is. with my recent improvement with using photoshop the changes that i would have done differently is that i would have used the brightness and contrast tool on the picture before writting any text ontop of it. i used alot of drop shawdow, inner glow and outer glow within the writting of my work as it gave it the standard affect to look exactly like the orginal, i would like to improve more on my decision making as i didnt use the colour picker tool which copys the exact colour of the image so i would be able to transfer it, that is something i would change when am doing my next piece on photoshop.

a difficulty that i had with alot of the text was adding the drop shadow as i had to be careful to make sure the didnt colide with each other as there was alot of text on my front cover of my magazine, a use benefit to make sure they didnt was the fact that used inner glow to help me create a black outline of the text which make it stand out much better, what ever colour the text was. with the picture slide at the bottom i was unable to complete that has what i had 2 do was not in my understanding and how to navigate around photoshop, this is were i would like to improve ma techniques which i will be able to do next time. another drawback to my understanding of photoshop at that moment was that i didnt know how to putthe main title behind the characters head (brad pitt) this was a very demorolising as it stood out that there was a difference between the two.

although i am happy with my first piece i am sure with a bit more understanding about photoshop and how to use the tools and the different technquies, i will gain a better outcome in my work and i will be more pleased on how i am presenting my work to the teacher. with a bit of understanding with photoshop my first proper piece done wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, put personally i would have liked it to me better. with me use of photoshop now it will allow me to position my work much better as in my first attempt i was unable to fit everything in which also would make a major affect in a comparrison between the two.