Unmalipulated Photo's

This is one of my photos i will use for my contents page. I like this picture because the key lighting is around the subjects face, there's alot of NVC and the white background makes him stand out.




This was an option to use for my contents page. I don't really like this picture due to the face the white background looks kind of scrappy and the key lighting seems to be on my subjects jacket.



I was going to use this picture on my double page spread, but as you can see the person at the front's face is very covered. It's to dark and the prop (mic) blocks half his face away.
This is a better picture to use then the other one. Reaons being are that this time you can see the subjects face clearly and both of them stand out very much on the black background.



This is going to be my image for the front cover. This is simply because my subject stands right out from white background. The key lighting is exactly where i wanted it and his NVC is very powerfull.



Here is another imagine i will use for my double page spread. I like this image alot because it has been taken to side to allow writing to be put next to the subject. It's a very pro sort of thing to do and the image itself is good.

Main Task: Mood Board

Main Task: Case Study Of a Publishing house

Publishing House Case study

My chosen publishing house is called Curtis. Curtis has been running now since 1876. They first started in Philadelphia after successfully publishing “The people’s lodge2 for six years in Boston. Curtis founded the Tribune and farmer.

After becoming very successful in editorial direction of his wife Louis Knapp Curtis, in 1883 it expanded to Ladies home journal.

In 1890, Cyrus Curtis formed the Curtis Publishing Company and in 1897, purchased The Saturday Evening Post for $1,000.

In 1911, Curtis acquired Country Gentleman, which also became a profitable addition. Jack and Jill for Children and Holiday were launched in 1938 and 1946, respectively. These five publications formed the nucleus of one of the most influential and profitable publishing ventures of the early twentieth century.

The Curtis Publishing Company circulation department became a separate subsidiary company, Curtis Circulation Company, in October 1946. Curtis Circulation Company continues to be an organisation whose expertise is still widely recognised today and whose market share has grown from 6% in 1982 to over 33% today.


The company “Curtis” publishes more than one big branded magazine. These include:
· The Saturday Evening Post
· Country Gentleman
· Jack and Jill for Children
· Holiday


The magazines that Curtis produces and sells are aimed around the age range of 25+. The magazines they produce are not really about gossip that most magazines do. The ones they produce are mainly about politics and usual things like how to cook or generally about something that will benefit you from reading it. The magazines are very intellectual and to must have a pretty good reading level to understand most of them.


Which each magazine Curtis makes they always switch it around. Sometimes they will focus on their male magazines and put themselves far out to make them the main attraction of Curtis. For instance one magazine they publish is called “country gentlemen” clearly by the name alone we know that this magazine is aimed at males only. But another way Curtis is so successful is because they produce magazines for both sexes. Also they produce magazines and books for young children; this will defiantly pull in more money due to the good standard of the books/magazines.

Looking at their website they seem to be happy and most of all successful enough and don’t seem to have plans to do anything more then what they’re doing.

Here are some examples of the magazines they have made:

Main Task: Audience Research

Person 2

Main Task: Double Page Spread Conventions Diagram

Main Task: Double Page Spread Texual Analysis

Denotation
Image looks interesting. We see a man sitting on a bench in front of a studio or somewhere. The layout of the double page looks neat.

Connotation
The image we see will pull us in and make us think why is a superstar that big in somewhere like where he is? From what we see the place he’s in looks very ghetto and run-down. However the layout of this double page looks very neat and tidy for starters. It looks easy to read and from what we can see it looks like the text is about the man (the game) sitting down.

The prop here is the setting. A big star like The game sitting on a dirty bench like that and with a nasty looking building is not what you usually see. The meaning behind this suggest that he is visiting a place where he grew up because he always talks about how life was hard for him as a youngster and how the gang life affects his music that could be the case.

The lighting is definatly foccussed around his face, cleverly though the way he is wearing his hat covers his face from the light and keeps his face dark. This suggests he's hiding emotions or could even be scared to show his face around this area.

His non-verbal communucation is very strong, with the look on his face it may suggests he's not happy at all being around where he is or maybe he could actually be upset.

Mise En Scene
Props – there aren’t any props in this. There is a bench which he’s on but that’s already there and it part of the scenery already.

Lighting – As for lighting he doesn’t really seem to be in the main light of the picture. To me the main light is on the background, I believe its like this to emprasize the surroundings he’s got around him.

Setting – From what we can see he isn’t in the richest place. To the audience it looks like he is in a ghetto place. We can tell this because in the background there’s a building with a lot of graffiti over it. Also he’s sitting in what seems to be a lot of dirt around him, you don’t usually see rich people in places like that.

Non-Verbal Communication (NVC) – His NVC is very powerful in this image. Without knowing what he’s story is about we can tell that he isn’t in the mood for anyone’s crap. He looks quite fed-up and angry. From the way he’s sitting we can tell he’s not posh but quite the opposite.

Costume – From what he’s wearing we can tell that he is from a ghetto area. He wears the style of what many rappers/Mc’s wear. If he was in a suite we could maybe think he’s showing of he’s money or is going somewhere important but clearly he’s not.

Anchorage
Double pages don’t really have anchorage lines because there usually just for the front cover.

Masthead
Double page spreads don’t have mastheads.

Date
Once again DPS don’t have dates on, there usually on the front cover.

Barcode
Barcode’s are always on the front cover or on the back.

Main Task: Contents Page Conventions Diagram