Once that you have finished your powerpoint presentation you need to focus your attention onto our main task.
Here is a reminder of your AS coursework brief.
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.
And here are the 7 questions for our evaluation (worth 20 Marks)
In the evaluation the following seven questions must be addressed:
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Consider the magazines that we have researched. What is the audience for your music magazine.?
Look at a similar real media ' (Similar = Like the Magazine you are about to construct) Music Magazine (e.g. Q, Kerrang, Blender, NME, Mojo, Classic Rock, Top of the Pops etc)
Task 1 (Please post all your findings on your Blog)
Research the following:
- Age of Target Audience
- Gender
- Social Group
- Distribution or Readership
- Genre of Music
- Types of Artists/Bands that would appear in this Mag
Task 2 (Please post all your findings on your Blog)
Present a profile for a typical reader of your magazine
- Give the person a name
- Age (within the target group age range)
- Hobbies
- Favourite films
- TV programmes
- Music Tastes
- Fashion style
- Likes/dislikes
- Employment status if applicable
Your magazine should try to attract the audience by promoting/appealing to this audience profile.
