NEA part 5 - My mood board

Tuesday 2nd April 2019
My Mood Board

Learning Objectives:

• K: the advantages and disadvantages of using a mood board to inspire content of new media product.
• U: how different types of images and fonts can affect the way audiences consume media texts.
• BAT: produce a mood board that illustrates your initial ideas for your media product.
• CO: Use media terminology throughout.

• What brief did you choose?
• What are the minimum requirements for your chosen production?
• What is the target audience as prescribed in the brief?
• What is your target audience for the product you're creating? (this needs to link to the audience profiling post).

The brief I chose was brief one, which is an educational magazine. The minimum requirements for my magazine are five original pictures, a title, a strap line, a bar code, one main cover image, three cover lines and a 300 word double page spread article. The target audience for my brief is 10-13 year olds. My target audience for my magazine from my research was 14 year old males, who are interested in football.

Introduction

In this task, I'll explore different types of images, fonts and colours to use in my magazine. By creating this mood board, it will allow me to understand my target audience more and what content to include in my magazine.

• How did they helped you define content for your product?
• What will be your overall colour scheme of your production?
• What kind of images/shots would you use in your production?
• What kind of fonts would you use in your production?
• What kind of mise-en-scene would you use in your production?
• What kind of intertextuality would you use in your production?
• Which media theory(ies) are you likely to use in your production?

1) This mood board has helped me decide what type of content appears on a football magazine and the types of shots and fonts for the front cover.

2) The overall colour scheme of my production will mostly include bright colours such as, blue, green and white.

3) In my production, I will use close ups and full body shots because in my research I have discovered that most football magazines use these types of shots. Therefore, I will use close ups and full body shots to make my magazine appeal to my target audience and be as realistic as possible, so it looks like a real football magazine.

4) The type of font I will use for my front cover will be bold and large, as it will make my magazine stand out and appeal to my target audience. Also, the large, bold fonts usually appear on the front cover of football magazines.

5) In my magazine, the mise-en-scene will include a football kit and a prop I will use will be a football.

6) A kind of intertextuality I will use in my magazine will be a celebrity football scandal on one of my tag lines. Therefore, a wider audience would be interested in my magazine because of that celebrity.

7) In my magazine, I will use Blumler and katz' media uses and gratification theory because I intend to inform my target audience give them a source of entertainment through my football magazine.