Josh Lobb GCSE Blog

  08/10/20 Visual Elements InDesign L/O: To explore the use of visual elements in editorial design. Definitions: -Headline: A heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine. - layout/image: The way images are laid out on the page. -Display type: Large or eye-catching type used for headings or advertisement. -Kicker: An unexpected and often unpleasant turn of events. -Intro: What keeps you interested if you end up reading. -Byline: Name of an article/writer. -Body copy: The mean piece of writing. -Lead: A particular place or direction.  -Nut Graf: Tells you what the writer is up to.  -Baseline: A minimum or starting point used for comparisons. -Subhead: A heading given to a subsection of a piece of writing. -Pull quote: A brief, attention-catching quotation, typically in a distinctive typeface, taken from the main text from an article and used as a subheading or graphic feature. -Header/footer: A line or block of text appearing at the foot of each page...

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To develop an effective film marketing strategy. These posters are for the same film but just different because both of them are used in different countries to each other. Differences -One has bold writing in the background -The other is just a face -The one on the left is very bold with the colours but the one on the right uses darker and less attracting colours

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To develop an effective film marketing strategy  List all the ways you can think of to promote a movie: -Youtube adverts -TV adverts -Trailers -Billboards  Find movies that disasters on the poster of the film: -Geostorm -Noah -Into the storm -Disaster movie -The day after tomorrow  -The swarm -2012 -Metal tornado -Weather wars -Godzilla

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the disaster movie genre I have never seen any of the top 15 disaster movie except Godzilla and titanic. 1. Are the main characters in disaster movies normally male or female? Mainly Male  2. Which of your chosen films involve a storyline in which the main character has to get a member of their family to safety? In Sand Andreas, the main character has to safe his daughter from drowning. 3.The 'disaster' in Disaster movies usually falls into the following categories: natural (earthquakes/volcanoes/climate change) alien attack or an epidemic. Which categories do each of your films fall into? San Andreas is an earthquake, Titanic is a boat crash and Godzilla is a massive dinosaur lizard thing attacking Tokyo 4. Which one of your chosen films ends with the disaster being overcome (or at least survived) by the central character In San Andreas the daughter and the dad survive. 5. Which of your chosen films involve t...

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the use of sounds in films Describe the sort of music you would expect to hear in the following types of films 1. Horror films   Usually no singing just creepy noises 2. An action film     Intense and loud music 3. A thriller     Eery but confusing in a weird way 4. A comedy film      Stupid music that doesn't sound right 5. A science-fiction film     Creepy and no singing just eery noises Diegetic noises: -Song in the restaurant  -People talking -People coming into the restaurant  Non-diegetic: -The music before they go into the restaurant which isn't actually playing Is there any moments of silence in the scene you chose? Yes. When the men eat the chillies they start screaming but then it goes completely silent.

Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the use of setting and colour in films Setting Why might a director choose the following settings? 1. An isolated house in a rural setting for a horror setting To scare the viewers which is what the directors want from a horror film 2. A big city for an action film So there is loads of room for the hero and villain to fight  3. A small seaside town for a romantic comedy  So the characters have a beach all to themselves. 4. A range of different countries for an action adventure film So the characters could go explore the world and look for treasure  5. A large modern science laboratory for a science-fiction film So there could be a experiment gone wrong Colour Why might a director use the following colours? 1. Red and blue for a new superhero costume To look cool and those colours draw attention 2. A black suit for a villain  To blend in with the dark/night which is ...

15/04/20                    Lights! Camera! Action! L/O: To explore the narrative structure of a film  1. Tangled 2. The little mermaid 3. Beauty and the beast 4. Pocahontas 5. Snow White and the seven dwarfs  6. Cinderella 7. Aladdin 8. Tarzan 9. The hunchback of Notre dame  10. The lion king  Monsters university Director: Dan Scanlon Writer: Dan Gerson Producer: Kori Rae Producing company: Pixar and Disney Distribution company: Walt Disney pictures Date released: 2013 Genre: Animation Main voices: Bill crystal and Noah Johnston Beginning: tour of monsters factory and finds out he wants to be a scarer Middle: Mike forms a team called oozma kappa and goes on to win the scare games End: Goes to human world gets kicked out of monsters university and works at the factory with sully and then it leads to monsters inc  Monsters inc and university are not in...

23/03/20 News And Audience L/O: To investigate how news programmes are targeted towards different audiences What's in the News today? -Coronavirus. -Nandos and Mcdonalds to shut all UK restaurants. -Italy's coronavirus deaths doubled in one day. -

24/02/20 L/O: To explore the concept and format of news. What is the purpose of news? - Money -Educate -Inform -Spread awareness -Entertain Common types of news: -Sports (scores, transfers, match news etc) -Breaking news (Coronavirus, deaths, terror attacks etc) -Technology evolution (robots, new tech, improved phones and computers etc) -Celebrities (problems, new shows, doing good for the public etc) L/O: To explore the validity to news stories and their origins. What exactly 'fake news'? Fake news: False information used to shape your views, opinion or ideas. 5 examples of Fake News: -Boy who is 18 claims he is 9 and talks about being suicidal is exposed by the public and sent plenty of hate after he was caught lying about being bullied. -Man on the radio claims that he spots a UFO -Man claims he was attacked by a ghost. -People claim that Madeline McCann's parents killed their young daughter. -Russia claim they are not spreading the Coronavirus ...

10/02/20 L/O: To use and develop Photoshop skills The thing all these films have in common is they are all obviously all horror but they are also slasher films which according to the dictionary means " a horror movie, especially one in which victims (typically women or teenagers) are slashed with knives and razors". Other slasher films are Freddy Vs Jason, the Scream franchise, the final girls, hatchet, psycho and many more.

L/O: To build an effective website. 06/02/20 https://joshlobb06.wixsite.com/mysite I think that Ii have made a good website for a beginner and I put all my effort into making this background to what I wanted it to be. Also, I found the company to be good because most fitness places now-a-days are mainly for women so I thought that it would be good if I made a fitness company for men. The main problem with this is that I now look back on it and I wish i made a different type of company like a skiing company, a scootering company or even a new football brand. Finally, I give my website a 3.5/5 because I believe that it is good for my first website and it does look really impressive.

L/O: To explore the concept of branding and to create an effective brand image.                      06/01/20 Company: Name: Slimmy Jimmy. What it does (purpose): Dietary company. Unique Selling Point (USP): This slimming company is aimed mainly at men at the ages of 30-70. Target Audience: 30-70 year old men. Similar Slogan:"Snap into a slim jim!" Name: Refresh What it does (purpose): Chewing gum Unique Selling Point (USP): This gum is aimed at 9 and above Target Audience: 9 and above Similar Slogan: "Eat, drink, chew Extra!" I came up with this design because of the business being a weight loss company so i put a silhouette of a strong person. Also, it has the name of the company, the copyright R and the year the brand was found. I came up with this design because I thought the palm tree looked cool and I've added the name of the brand and warped the name, put in the copyright R an...