AICE Media Studies AS- Vivoni, T

Both Magazines and Movies are very expressive and tell a story, though each in very different ways. With a movie there is multiple ways to tell a story, not just with the script. Body language, tone, facial expressions, location, lighting, music, and digital effects are all ways you can get a point across in film. You can do many of these effects in Magazines as well, but the main way to tell the story in the magazine format is through words and photographs. It has been proven that reading can be more attention grabbing, “the brain behaves differently during a story as well. According to Annie Murphy Paul, when the brain processes sensory words, not only do the vocabulary areas of the brain activate, but the sensory areas of the cortex do as well (2012)”,(Cherry, “Our Place in the Universe: The Importance of Story and Storytelling in the Classroom”).  I somewhat disagree, I believe that movies can tell a story more effectively, it is harder to get distracted when there is so m...

       Magazine covers are the most important aspect of a magazine. The cover is the first thing a consumer or buyer sees, it is what ultimately makes the decision of whether to buy and read the magazine. The visual feature is a big part of the cover more so than the preview articles or anything else. The photographer has a few seconds to make the reader interested and consider opening the magazine. Photos have become increasingly more important in   magazines, "Consumers who actually open a magazine at the front and commence reading are becoming an increasingly rarified demographic group;' David Carr tells us in The New York Times.”, ( Scherer, Michael). Magazines have been evolving towards a higher percentage of photos to text, “ Promoters of the short attention span have already declared victory.”, (Scherer, Michael). This decline in text and focus on articles has to do with the ultimate transformation from physical to online news. As the older...

My initial opinion about opening scene/credits was that it had significant importance to the film. Though I knew the opening scene it had importance I never payed close attention to the detail. Now that I have watched multiple clips from various movie of only the opening scene, I see the effect it has on the viewers' interest. I noticed that when watching the opening credits of movies that were fast pace and immediately jumped into the plot, I was more intrigued by such as, “Pulp Fiction”, “Jaws”, “Scream”, and “Saturday Night Fever”. These films each began with a full-blown scene including dialogue and action. When a movie begins with a slow start and ends with a load of action, I tend to be conflicted on whether the overall movie was good or not. A better start to a movie in my opinion is an intriguing scene followed by credits followed by a seemingly  normal start, it gives the viewer a sense of foreshadowing and excitement for what's to come and more likely to pay attentio...