AICE Media Studies AS- Mavrikas, H

In today’s world sitting down and reading a magazine is very rare. “ And  reading  a full magazine article--as opposed to scanning, perusing, surfing--is so twentieth century, so retirement home, so William Shawn (Scherer, 2002).” Most people don’t have time, even those who are retired don’t sit down and pick up a magazine, adults are always working and teens barley read as it is. But those who do don’t always read the whole thing. Most of these magazines have lengthy feature articles which cause those who read it to lose interest half way through. “ they have shorter attention spans than any previous generation; they are chronically over-stimulated and easily bored (Scherer, 2002)”   When creating a magazine, you have to be straight to the point; no body wants to sit there and read a 2-page article on something they are interested in when you drag it out. In the Vogue magazine it grabs your attention from the start. The front page is Vogue in big white text, they keep i...

When it comes to film making there is a huge impact with the opening sequences as well as credits. “ Specialist titles are becoming an integral part of every film package ( Merril, 2004).” It is all about grabbing the audience attention, this is at the beginning of a movie so if they lost the audiences attention in the beginning they will lose them before the film even starts. It is very important and hard to make these opening sequences eye catching . “ These sequences promise excitement that the respective films ultimately deliver on. There are of course instances when the best thing about a film is the title sequence (Merril, 2004).” In the lion king it is a very great film to show how you can make an eye-catching opening; although Disney films spend more time showing that it is made by Disney compared to the title of the film there are still many great examples that the lion king gives. For example, the Lion King films from different camera angles as the animals are all coming t...