Thursday, May 14, 2020

Music Video Essay

Explain how representations in music videos are chosen to promote the artist(s). Refer to one of the music videos you have studied to support your answer. (10)

In the song "Stop Where you are" Corinne Bailey Rae (CBR) uses lots of different examples of representation however some are shown more clearer than others. The song is represented as looking out for the people who are less fortunate than others and the message of the song and music video that CBR is trying to send is that no matter how old you are you can go through some hard times in life but anyone is able to overcome this if they stay strong. In the music video it shows a teenager looking sad with their hood up and CBR represents herself as a very caring and helpful person by sitting with the teen and showing her support. CBR continues to show her support throughout the video by maintaining support throughout the rest of the music video, this promotes CBR as a caring and supportive person as an artist.

Another way in which CBR uses representation to promote herself as an artist is by using different camera angles and shots to show her supportiveness more effectively - 1 way she does this is with one of the camera angles shows someone closer to the camera to make them look big and strong compared to the person who is further away from the camera making them look smaller and weaker however it is shown that the smaller person is looking up at the bigger person so this represents the character helping the person who is feeling down this again represents CBR as a supportive person due to her message of support that she is trying to give to the audience as a whole and any individuals that struggle with the same kind of problems.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Shelter Advert Notes

Shelter Advert Notes

Asa - Advertising standards authority


  • Had set strict rules for advertising in all of the media.
  • Have power to "pull" any advertisements of the radio the press or on the television.
  • Asa will investigate the complaint and make a choice whether to disagree or to agree with the complaint that had been made
  • advertisers have to obey to the ASA rules and regulations of advertising.


ASA also cover


  • How advertisers use your personal information to advertise to eg via your texts and emails.
  • How sales promotions are run such as draws and competitions etc.
  • Making sure consumers get the mail order goods or refunds when ordering from newspapers.


Charity Advertisement Rules


  • Hand with care and discretion matters to arouse strong emotions in the audience
  • Not suggest that anyone will lack proper feelings
  • Respect the dignity of those on whose behalf an appeal is being made
  • Not contain comparisons with other charities
  • Not mislead or misrepresent in any way about the charity
  • Creation of sympathy for the subject of the charity
  • Creation of empathy for the subject of the charity shock - make you feel that you have to contribute to the charitable cause
  • Involvement - ice bucket challenge, race for life
  • annual budget 33.6 bil







Monday, March 23, 2020

The Big issue - Google Slides

The Big Issue

The Big issue
The Big issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and it was published in four continents. The newspaper is fairly frequent and is released weekly. The newspaper is based in London and Glasgow. The newspaper was first issued in September 1991.

It quotes that the Big issue newspapers mission is to "Dismantle poverty by creating opportunities through self help, social trading and business solutions so this means that the main focus of the newspaper is to create opportunities which means they care about other people. As of February 2018 a circulation of 83,073 sold

Key terms
Circulation - number of copies sold.

Readership - the people who buy the magazine who actually read the magazine.

mass Audience - readership on a large scale

Niche audience - narrow group of readers with a particular interest.

Subscription - where a reader pays for a set number of magazines at a set price and then has them delivered.

Masthead - the title of the magazine

Plug - text that plugs a feature will appear inside the magazine.

Puff - a story that is given prominence on the cover

Cover Star - the celebrity featured on the front cover (normally done to invite bigger audiences)

Anchorage text - text that gives the main image context and meaning.

banner - text on the lower section of the cover

Skyline - text that runs along the top of the cover normally the price or the date or the writer.

Advertising in magazines - without any sort of advertisement magazines would not be read by anyone and if a magazine did not include any sort of advertisement of other businesses then the price of that magazine will be 3-4 times more expensive as the price with advertisements and this is because the magazine will receive some money from advertising other businesses for example mcdonalds could pay KFC to advertise their business.
A magazine with a small circulation is more dependent on advertising than one with a large circulation.

Magazines Aims - It was sold only on screens. A publication revolution. The way it works today is the same way it worked when it first came around in 1991 the vendor's buy it for half the cover price then they sell it to their customers and they earn the difference. The big issue is a social enterprise. The big issue built a reputation for access and reputation, stars like george michael came to the big issue first. Big people such as  politicians listened to them. One of the Big issues aims was to go global, copies were sold in australia, japan korea and south africa etc. The big issue helped many of the poor earn some money as the homeless sold them all around the world

Deutschland '83 - Representation