Coursework Deadlines!

Now you are halfway through your construction, it is important that you continue to upload your thoughts, analysis and details of changes onto your blog regularly. Remember to save your texts regularly or take screen prints to show the evolution of your designs.

The schedule is as follows:
28th Feb: Contents page construction
6th March: Double page feature construction
13th March: Additional time on double page feature
20th March: Inset day
27th March: Begin evaluations
Easter Holidays: Complete evaluations

Any amendments to your final texts, blogs and evaluations must be done before Tuesday 17th April as your work will be moderated later that week.

Completing your surveys and scheduling your photoshoot.

By Tuesday 24th Jan you need to have completed your surveys so that you can start to plan your front covers. Ensure that you have surveyed your target age group and that you have asked questions regarding what attracts them to a front cover.

You should also use the results of your survey to finalise your shot list and it is important to schedule a date for your photoshoot as soon as possible. Remember that your construction will be difficult without the images to work with.

To do list:
- Write up your industry findings
- Finalise your front cover deconstruction
- Get as many of your target audience as you can to complete your survey
- Arrange a date for your photoshoot and select your models

Preparing for your Music Magazine

By Tuesday 17th January you should aim to complete the following:

• Gain further knowledge and understanding of the music magazine industry and the issues it faces


• Deconstruct your chosen front cover


• Formulate your audience survey and choose your answer group carefully


• Begin planning possible front cover layouts


• Schedule your photoshoot for over the next couple of weeks

Researching the music magazine industry.

Once you have chosen the music magazine that interests you and that you want to base your own work on, research the following using the magazine itself and the internet:

Name of Magazine:
Price:
Publisher (and if the company is independent or global/major):
Year Founded:
Name of Editor (and relevant experience):
Advertising Rates:
Mission Statement:
Target Audience:
Reader Profile (ABC):
Circulation:
Readership:
Web Presence:

Also consider carefully what makes the magazine different from its competitors. What are its unique selling points (USPs)?

Your Evaluation Section

Now you have completed your preliminary front cover and contents page, answer the following questions in rough using the appropriate technical terminology. Make sure your answers are detailed.

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:

· In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

· How does your media product represent particular social groups?

· What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

· Who would be the audience for your media product?

· How did you attract/address your audience?

· What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

· Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Remember that you must also include feedback from your audience. Once you have written your answers, try to have fun with the way you present the information. Use sound clips, videos or slideshows to make the information more interactive.

Completing your front cover

You now have until Tuesday 8th November to complete your school magazine front cover. Make sure that you are able to justify all of your decisions as this is required within your evaluation. Keep checking back to your planning and research to ensure you are using your survey results.

Upload your front cover when complete. Remember to print occasionally to check how it looks on paper and that your alignment is accurate.

School Magazine: Research and Planning

Now you have begun work on your final school magazine front cover, it is important that you begin to publish evidence of your research and planning on your blogs. The following criteria must be evidenced:

-Institutional information
-Front cover deconstruction using correct terminology
-Effective audience research
-Contents page deconstruction
-Reader profile
-Survey results
-Interview with J Appleton
-Schedule of actors/models
-Draft sketches of front cover and contents page
-Shotlist
-Attractive blog layout
-Information easy to navigate -Blog functions used fully

Over half-term, you will need to complete these uploads ready for marking.