During the lesson today please
try to complete your music magazine!
Work to
complete over the holiday:
- Make sure that your blog is up to date. Use the checklist below as a guide.
Introduction to main task &
action plan
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Initial ideas post
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Analysis of 2 X front covers
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Analysis of 2 X contents pages
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Analysis of 2 X double page
spread
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Pitch
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Pitch feedback & summary of
findings
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Time Management update
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Research of chosen subgenre
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Style sheet
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Mock up of front cover
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Mock of contents page
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Mock up double page
spread
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Screen shots of design
development of front cover – at least 5
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Screen shots of design
development of double contents page – at least 5
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Screen shots of design
development of double page spread – at least 5
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Audience feedback from
front cover
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Audience feedback from
contents page
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Audience feedback from
double page spread
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Final design of front
cover
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Final design of double
page spread
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Final design of double
page spread
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- Question One
What are the conventions (key
ingredients) of music magazines? What
does the front cover have to include?
What is a typical contents page and DPS like? How have you included these conventions in
your own magazine? Have you done
anything differently? How have you pushed the boundaries of this form? For this
section you must try and use as much media / magazine vocabulary as possible:
connotations, masthead, coverlines, central image, puffs, pugs, serif, sans
serif, brand identity, house style, mode of address…etc.
- Question Two
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Which social groups have you
represented e.g. teenagers? Rock music
fans? How have you represented them?
Have you represented them in a stereotypical way which maintains a dominant
ideology of that group? Or have you tried to produce challenging, alternative
representations which reflect more of an emergent ideology. Discuss the images you have used, the language
you have used, the ratio of text to pictures etc. It is always useful to say
why you have made these decisions – essentially how these representations have
been used to appeal to the target audience and sell the magazine.
- Question Three
Which institutions already publish
magazines like yours? Or perhaps you
might mention an institution that has a gap in the market…Why would a company
want to distribute your magazine – what does it offer?
- Question Four
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Age? Gender? General profile of your audience? Refer back to your pitch post.
- Question Five
How did you attract/address your audience?
What did you include in your magazine
to make it attractive to your target audience?
Spend some time discussing the front cover – remember this is the hook
that makes people buy it (70% of people buy their mags on the spur of the
moment) Think also about mode of address – how does your magazine “talk” to the
audience. Why would someone want to buy
your magazine? Refer to audience
feedback here – you will get this feedback during our lesson on Monday 12
March.
- Question Six
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Which technologies have you used
(Blogger, InDesign, Photoshop, Photobooth, digital camera, Facebook?) and what have you learnt?
- Question Seven
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Hopefully for a lot of you it will be
to do with making your practical work look professional and what appeals to the
target audience.
