Magazine mini assignment

Magazine mini assignment

Thomas Stone

Different styles of photography

Fashion

With fashion photography that are in magazines the main aim is to sell both the clothes that they are wearing, but also with some models who are more famous than others, the pictures are used to promote them as a model. Most fashion pictures use a very basic lighting set up, where they light up the model clearly, so that the reader can see everything easily and instantly. Also, the background is mainly very plain, with either having only one or two colours or a simple location shot to compliment the clothes the model is wearing. This is very effective because with some pictures, the background can distract the audience away from what they should be looking at.

The composition of the shots vary depending on the shot size. If they are close up on the faces they are generally on one side (see first image), mid shots and long shots are always centralised to draw your eyes into everything thats happening on the picture at one time (See pictures 2 and 3). This is also the case when using multiple models for the same shot.

Wildlife

This is a great expressive form of photography that i love because it is such a painstaking long process to get even one amazing picture. Photographers would study one area to see where the animals would spend a lot of time and then would position themselves far from it, but in a way they can use extremely long lenses to get the pictures they want, they would wait until they get the "money shot" known as this because this is the shot they would go out to aim to get and this would generate them and the magazine the most money.

The whole message for all wildlife photographs is to show how wonderful and amazing animals and nature is. The effectiveness of these images are so dramatic because one or two images can tell a whole story about one creature, these images can completely change a person's ideas on that animal. So also the message would be to promote the animals in a possitive way unless it is a magazine that has an article talking about animal cruelty when obviously they would show some horrid images.

The composition of these sort of images varies, but they mainly have the animal as big as possible in the shot, which could be either centralized or to one side. Then the background could be out of focus, this is due to it either not being needed or not interesting enough for the article.

Sport

Sport photography in magazines have many different reasons for being there, depending on the article, these reasons could include; action shots from a recent game, head shots for players/coaches for interviews, studio pictures for portraits and action shots for promotional things like adverts.

The whole idea for these types of shots are very effective because the images are used to grab the action from a game with just one or two images, so that if the reader has missed the game they could get the feel for that match with the reports and images. With th studio and promotional shots they would be used to obviously promote the brand and the player to generate money for them both and the head shots would be there just to break up the article instead of having just solid text.

The composition is not so structured as some of the other types of the photography because some of them have to be taken so quickly to get the shot, as long as they get the thing they want in the frame the composition does not matter as much.

Page layout

This idea is really good as i like the idea of a dream team and the use of making it look like a subuteo table, with the players comments on each player makes it stand out really well.

Music Students (Matt)

Music Students (Ade)

Music student shots (Marcus)

Mini assignment 2
Thomas Stone

Professional Codes of practise

ASA

Advertising Standards Authority

This is the company that regulates advertising across all media, including TV, internet, sales promotions and direct marketing. So the main role of the

company is to ensure that all the adverts seen/heard/read are legal and honest.

The ASA is a self-regulated company because this is a company set up by themselves who then create the rules for the adverts to stop adverts with such

content that would not be suitable for a certain audience or cause offense to a race or religion.

NUJ

National Union of Journalism

The National Union of Journalists is a company that helps out freelance journalists who are members of the union to get them better pay and to maintain high

standards. They work in various areas of the media such as; newspapers, magazines, internet and books. Jobs include; photographers, writers, editors,

publishers, illistrators.

The NUJ operates a self-regulatory system, but which many people in the industry feel that it works very well. They feel that the way its run is the cause of

many job loses such as editors which leads to a higher level of inaccuracy in the newspapers.

PCC

Press Complaints Commission

The role of the PCC is to deal with the complaints people have with anything to do with magazines and newspapers, this also includes the websites for these.

The PCC is a self regulated body.

Legal & Ethical restrictions

Criminal Law and Civil Law

The main difference between the two can be seen by who brings the complaint/case to court. A criminal matter is made by the government, but a civil matter is

brought by another person. The outcome is also different, Criminal law primarily deals with rehabilitation or punishment for wrongs, and it will end in a

fine or prison. Civil law is about righting a wrong and has the primary purpose of compensation.

Health & Safety

When doing a photoshoot either in a studio or on location there are checks you should always do to make sure you and the clients are as safe as possible.

These such things are like;

1. When in a studio you must make sure the backdrop is firmly tapped to the floor and is held with tape or clips to stop the paper unrolling.

2. Also in the studio you need to make sure the lights do not over heat or are close to the backdrop paper as this could cause a fire.

3. On location, go there before the actual shoot day to make sure the location is safe.

4. When taking photographs of minors make sure you have permission of the parent or gardian to take pictures of them.

5. When on location make sure when you are inbetween long periods of not shooting keep your model warm.

Copyright

Copyright protects the physical expression of ideas. As soon as an idea is given physical form, for example a piece of writing, a photograph, music, a film,

a web page, it can be protected by copyright. Both published and unpublished works are able to be protected by copyright.

Once the form has been copyrighted other people may not use their pictures etc for their own work without quoting whos work it is. So one person can't pass

off pictures or music as their own work if it has been copyrighted.

Libel Law

Defamation - This is a false accusation of an offense or a misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. For example, a newspaper only printing a sentense

that somebody has said to make them seem worse than they really are.

Libel - This is when a statement is written down to be made perminant and to become like a legal contract. This is used in many court cases, when a

representive reads out a statement a family member/friend has asked them to read for them.

Slander - This is where words are falsely re-spoken to damage somebody elses reputation.

Data Protection Act

The data protection act is an act where people can control information about themselves.

ND media: Industry glossary

ND Media: Industry Glossary

ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY (ASA) – A company that regulates everything in advertising. To make sure all advertising is all the same high standard and to make advertising fair.

BROADCASTERS AUDIENCE RESEARCH BOARD (BARB) – A service that provides information of the amount of viewers per minute at a certain time.

BRITISH BOARD OF FILM CLASSIFICATION (BBFC) – Company that classifies games/films with the ages to determine who can and can’t watch it.

BROADCASTING – Sending information over a network, comes from one source that transmits to lots of sources.

COMPANY SIZE: MAJOR COMPANIES (TNC) – These are companies that everybody knows like CNN, Sky and Fox.

COMPANY SIZE: BIG TO MEDIUM SIZED – There turnover shouldn’t exceed 22.8 million and the profit shouldn’t exceed 11.4 million.

COMPANY SIZE: INDEPENDENT – A company solely themselves that aren’t owned by anybody else.

CROSS MEDIA COMPANIES – A media company that uses both press such as newspapers/magazines and internet together.

HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION – More than one building or firm buying a building the same size from a different company

INSTITUTION – An organisation that is heavily organised and regulated, things like Banks and Media industry companies.

NEW MEDIA INDUSTRY – This describes how technology/communications are moving on in the later part of the 20^th century, with the introduction of fibre optic wires and everybody using digital computers.

NARROWCASTING – When a channel only shows one genre of programmes for a certain audience, for example Sky Sports News.

NATIONAL READERSHIP SURVEY (NRS) - A company that records and estimates the readership of the major magazines and newspapers. (The amount of people reading that particular magazine or newspaper.)

OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS (OFCOM) – Independent regulatory body that controls the communications in the UK, such as BT, Virgin media and other phone companies.

PRESS COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (PCC) – Regulatory body that deals with complaints with things in the press. For example, if a person reads something that isn’t true about them they would contact this company.

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP – This is a company that is funded and owned by one or a small group of people.

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP – Owned by lots of people/share holders. With things like magazines they must write articles that the share holders will like as they put the money in. For example, football clubs are mostly publicly owned.

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – A broadcasting organisation made financially for the pubic and has no political interference. For example BBC.

REGULATORY BODY – An independent organisation that’s established by the government that regulates the movement of a company to make sure they don’t do or say anything they shouldn’t be.

SELF-REGULATORY BODY – Has a certain amount of regulatory authority over an industry.

VERTICAL INTEGRATION – This is where a company owns everything in the process to make the final product. For example a restaurant that owns fields to grow the food/animals, the butchers who kill and cut up the food and the restaurant to serve the food.