Felichia

Over the last 2 years of studying media I have developed and built upon many skills. For my foundation portfolio I was set the task to create my own music magazine called ‘Red rage’, I chose to do a horror magazine with a target audience of both genders ages 16-24. One thing that was definitely new to me was using a camera effectively to capture professional looking shots and to ensure the picture did not come out blurry. The next biggest challenge was using Photoshop but once I got used to using it, this came in very handy as I was able to edit and merge my pictures until I was happy with the final product. Not understanding how to function the camera limited my creativity as I wasn’t able to get the perfect picture I was going for it also wasted a lot of time, however it also gave me more of a chance to play around and experiment with different settings and find out which one I believe suited my genre more. Also I didn’t know much about the typical conventions associated with Rock s

Horror films use established signs and codes in their conventions to signify deeper meaning, in my A2 horror trailer we used red colors in less obvious places for example on the nails, this connotes danger and blood as red is a warning color. Theorist Roland Barthes talks about semiotic, which is the study of signs, or the social production of meaning by sign systems, of how things come to have significance by meaning. He mentions two identifies orders of signification. This is denotation and connotation, one talks about the actual object and the other talks about the hidden meaning behind the object. In my summer trailer we used the typical teen characters such as the slut, the jock, the nerd and the final girl, we decided to use these particular characters to represent teen punishment as a sub-genre , this was purposely used as red is a danger color. One common denotation in horror movies is dark settings, this is used because it connotes fear and danger as many peoples fear is the