Typefaces

Serif

In typography, a serif is the little extra stroke found at the end of main vertical and horizontal strokes of some letterforms. Serif fonts include Times Roman, Courier, New Century Schoolbook, and Palatino.

San Serif

A category of typefaces that do not use serifs, small lines at the ends of characters. Popular sans serif fonts include Helvetica, Avant Garde, Arial, and Geneva.

Sans Serif fonts are harder to read according to most studies, so are used for shot text components such as headlines and captions.

Contents page research

                                     

                                           

Codes and conventions                                                                                                                           

• pictures of students doing various activities (sports)
• list of contents with page references
• one colour scheme (school colours?) 
• title 'contents' clear and stands out

            

Panasonic Lumix LX7

Raw mode 
A file format that captures all image data recorded when you take a photo. Because no information is compressed you're able to produce higher quality images using this setting.
Mpeg mode 
A setting in which images are compressed.
Press the menu button, choose the mode by moving with the arrows.
ISO 
Change the control dial to M, then press ISO and use the arrows to select a setting.
Shutter speed 
Change the control dial to S, then turn the front dial right to increase the speed and left to decrease it.
F-Stop
Change the control dial to A, then turn the front dial left for a larger aperture (smaller number) and right for a smaller aperture (larger number)   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgZFZ9TSrs
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/om/dmc-lx7_en_adv_om.pdf

School Magazine Research

 Codes and conventions of school magazine

• main image close up of a student (direct mode of address)
• description of contents 
• Main topic is to do with help in exams or how to achieve high grades

Key Terms

Media codes and conventions

Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Some codes fit both categories – music for example, is both technical and symbolic.
Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.

Technical codes

Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.

Symbolic codes

Symbolic codes show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions show you how the character is feeling.


Denotation

Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a sign, the 'dictionary definition'.

Connotation

Connotation represents the various social overtones, cultural implications, or emotional meanings associated with a sign.

Mise-en-Scène

Borrowed from a French theatrical expression, meaning roughly “put into the scene”.  In other words, mise-en-scène describes the stuff in the frame and the way it is shown and arranged. 

Brief

Print

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Camera Research

Camera Iris 

An adjustable opening on a digital camera used to control the amount of light coming through the lens. The more the Iris opens, the more light is let in and the brighter the scene will be.

Shutter Speed

https://photographylife.com/what-is-shutter-speed-in-photography

The length of time a camera shutter is open to expose light to the camera sensor. If the shutter speed is fast the action is frozen completely, creating a sharp motion shot. If the shutter speed is slow it can create an effect called motion blur- where moving objects appear blurred along the direction of motion. This effect is used quite a bit in advertisements of  cars and motorbikes, where a sense of speed and motion is communicated to the viewer by intentionally blurring the moving wheels.
ISO

https://photographylife.com/what-is-iso-in-photography 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/what-is-iso-camera-settings-explained/

When you change your ISO setting, you're changing your cameras sensitivity to light. A low setting makes it less sensitive and a high setting makes it more so, the ISO number is found on the box and canister of the camera. A higher ISO usually translates to a noisy or "grainy" image, so as a general rule you should use the lowest possible setting for your photos, but there are situations where a higher ISO setting is desirable. 

Depth of Field 

http://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-depth-field-beginners/

The distance between nearest and furthest objects giving a focused image. Some images have very small depths of field which is called shallow depth of field, others will have a very large zone of focus which is called a deep depth of field. The closer the subject is to the camera, the shallower your depth of field becomes. Moving further away from the subject will deepen your depth of field. Depth of field is also effected by focal length of a lens control and aperture.

Blogger Tutorial

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en
http://allinworld99.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/blogger-label-widget-blogger-label.html