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.

Beginning your School Magazine Cover

Well done to Jaeden and Stephanie for uploading your identity magazine cover. Comments will be uploaded shortly.

This week's homework is to complete and conduct your survey to help you research what to put into your magazine. Remember to survey 10 boys and 10 girls, plus show them some front cover mock ups to help with your layout decisions.

On Tuesday we will be planning front covers influenced by your findings, and hopefully receiving some advice from a visiting Graphic Designer. If you wish to take further photos for your cover there will also be an opportunity to do this.

Well done!

Well done to Jake, Stephanie and Jaeden for creating their blogs. There is now a link below to each of your blogs so make sure you frequently look at each other's work and comments.

Homework this week will be to complete your identity poster and upload it onto your blog with a description/analysis of what you have done and why.

Skern Homework: Take pictures for the school magazine that you will be creating on your return. Think carefully about how you represent the students and the school. Also think carefully about how you frame your shots.

Hello and welcome to AS Media Studies at CSG! This blog is designed to guide you through the Foundation Portfolio coursework (G321) and give you links to helpful resources for your school magazine, your music magazine and your blog.

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