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Jennifer Lamb   MAGAZINE COVER REVIEW (blog post 2)   A few magazines that I'm going to be talking about are GQ, Rolling Stones, Sports Illustrated, Vouge, and Cosmopolitan. Each of these articles that I'm going to be talking about all had very eye-catching covers with interesting photos of very well-known celebrities on them.    My initial impression of the GQ cover was very intriguing. The cover had Travis Scott on the front with dark colors, very mysterious looking. The text was very bright and bold with flames coming from the text. This automatically brings in the reader's attention because of the way the cover is structured and promoted by Travis Scott, a very well-known celebrity. The target audience is men for this magazine, containing a very basic, plain content page. The two feature pages tie in with the cover page,...

Jennifer Lamb   Title Sequence Clips (blog post 1)   The following will include my initial impressions of the impact of the opening sequences of Space Odyssey, Scream, Pulp Fiction, and The Lion King.    In the beginning of Space Odyssey, the screen was completely black, while mysterious music was playing in the background for about 3 minutes. Then a lion logo that was titles MGM appeared in silence. A few seconds after the logo was shown, it slowly faded out... and the music abruptly changed to an orchestra playing a more upbeat introduction.  “While I find visual effects really fascinating because digital technology enables you to puff apart and put together a photographic image, now that video is being delivered interactively, it means a whole new range of hybrid media forms are really starting to emerge.”(Merril, Miles)  The last few minutes contained a sun and either planet or moon showing on ...