Amy Hall Y13 A2 Advanced Portfolio

Below is a textual analysis of Taylor Swift's new video 'Look What You Made Me Do'. To complete this analysis I used my knowledge on camera shots, angles and movements, mise-en-scene and editing along with an article written by  The Guardian  about the decoding of the signs in the video.

Me and Jess aimed to re-create an iconic CD cover from a well established artist, to do this we had to use Photo-Shop in order to incorporate and develop some of our editing skills. We referred to an article named  'Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers'  for inspiration, from looking through these we discovered certain characteristics that we liked the look of and so we looked separately for black and white, emotional covers. Eventually we decided on a cover by Adele, we used '21' as we thought that this one carried the most emotion through facial expression. Below is the original above our version, Jess looked the most like Adele out of the two of us and so here they are:

Below are a range of photos all taken with a different style and mood in mind. All have been taken in front of a consistent background and all have given us ideas for what we may like when it come to the real things. It was a lot of fun to take these shots as it wasn't serious and all they are are ideas and practice! These two are our broody and hard shots.  This is cool Amy. Creepy Amy.   Dull Jess. Group shot. Happy Amy.  Jess just chilling.  Sad Jess. Scowl Jess.  Shy Amy. Spooky Amy. Jess yawning. Dark Amy.

Below is a prezi of a few media theorists who will be key in my exam next year. I have included a summary of the ideas of each theorist as well as some of my own views.

As a group we explored different types of genre and sub-genres to investigate how genres are born and evolve. The ones that most interested me were 'New Romantics' and 'Reggaeton' because the artists who create this type of music, 'New Romantics', include David Bowie, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and artists like Enrique I glesias and Daddy Yankee belong in the 'Reggeaton' genre and these are popular and well established artists. I didn't know that their music belonged in these sub-genres and that's why I found these the most interesting. Below is a textual analysis of the sub genre 'New Romantics', I chose this genre because most of the songs belonging to it are classics from the 1980's and 90's and therefore are well known and enjoyable.

You can tell that her genre is pop - The close up of her face shows that the record label have found that her looks are a selling point, the use of font is also fun.   Indie  - A niche audience and so a niche from cover, it is quite usual of indie bands not to have the artist appearing on the front cover they're marking themselves as different, saying that it's not about us, it's about the music.   House/dance - Both the album cover and the type of music is different, again, a niche cover appealing to a niche audience, the music itself relies on electronics therefore a cartoon looking cover fits, the artists' looks are not made to be selling point.   Is genre a problem? Do artists have to behave and look a certain way? Rap - gangster but not in real life - many artists tend to act a certain way due to pressure, but they don't particularly want to.   Can they change image/genre or do they risk losing audience?  When a band separates and