The television programme Friends was a decade long running programme, with a huge audience. Therefore the opening credit and theme song have been heard over and over again by millions of people. Opening credits are therefore inportant to a programme. The mix of early shots of the cast members and clips from the show are what features in the opening credit to Friends. Showing each character is often used by programmes, as a way of introducing the cast to the audience. The theme song is an important characteristic to fit in with the visual aspect of the opening credits, as a catchy theme tune often has the audience singing along.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Classic Painting- Whistler's Mother
This image is one which is well known painted by James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The image predominantely features the colours black and grey, which gives an almost mournful feel about the painting. The image is quite androgynous as Whistler's mother's hair is not seen, and there is a seriousness about her face; however the delicate bonnet which rests on her head is feminine and almost juxaposes the rest of the image through its pure brightness which breaks up the dullness of the black and grey. A piece of media like this would have had a large impact of audiences, as this was considered to be a range of daring colours. However would not have much impact in the current media, as audiences are so used to bright eye-catching colours and have now come to expect that.
Skins
Skins became a popular programme for containing sex, drugs and alcohol omonsgt a group of teenagers. Featured on E4 a channel aimed at an older teenage audience, is one of the highest rated programme to feature on this channel (a sister channel to the terrestrial TV channel, channel 4). The visual impact of this programme contrasts largely to the previous post, which suggests a difference in how teenagers are portrayed through the media in Britain in comparison to the USA. The previous post featured very polished, happy and perfect looking teenagers in contrast to this no so polished, not so happy, not so perfect image of teenagers shown on the advertisement for Skins. This shows the difference in ideals between Britain and the USA, as American's seem to want some image of perfection to aspire to, but Brit's want a more realistic and over rebellious group of teenagers to relate to in some ways. Advertisement- 90210
This is an advertisement for 90210 a re-make of a 1990s television programme. As the original programme was so popular, the title would immediately be recognised and gain attention from potential viewers, and the audience of the original 90210. The visual aspects of the poster such as the characters clothing and hair styles would immediately draw attention to girls aged between 14-18 years. All the actors within this programme are stereotypically attractive and would therefore gain attention from male and female teenage audiences.
Sex And The City
Sex And The City is a TV series which has been produced into a film, here is the film poster. As the television programme had already built up a big enough audience for the film to be produced after the programme had finished, the film poster needs little visual information. The largest part of this poster is taken up by the text, as the audience would already be aware of the content of the programme there would be no need for any kind of signs or signifers. The word "sex" particularly stands out within the poster as it is the largest part of text, being a large focus within the TV programme the audience would be happy to see that sex was still a large focus within the film. The predominant colour on the poster being pink would immediately draw female attention as this overtly suggests that that film is aimed towards a female audience. Cover Art. Beatles- "Abbey Road"
This very well known image, synonimous with the hugely influential band The Beatles is one which has become almost symbolic. This image which has been re-distributed to appear on t-shirts, bags, badges and mugs, is one which is also easily identifiable with The Beatles. Visually the photographic composition and camera positioning all works together, as the road dissappears into the background and the band members are equally positioned and together form a central image. The audience are also able to see the band members clothing and hairstyles, which where all key features as The Beatles where influential on their fans style.
Advert. Valentino
Contrasting to the light and free feeling to the previous advertisement (lacoste-touch of pink ad), this advertisment is one in which i could imagine being featured in more high fashion magazines such as vogue. The model used within this advertisment appears older through her elegant dress and hairstyle, therefore more mature and classy. Therefore suggesting an older audience for this perfume between 30-45.
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