Your Brief and Evaluation Questions

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Coursework Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

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.

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?