Preliminary exercise: using DTP (desk top publishing) 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.
This task is to ascertain your existing skills levels. This is the 'before' in a 'before and after'.
You will take a photograph of a student seated in medium close up and use Photoshop template to create a front cover with a masthead and some content indicators. You will also create mock up of the contents page, this could be done using Publisher. You will be able to use this to measure you progress by the end of the course.
This task is to ascertain your existing skills levels. This is the 'before' in a 'before and after'.
You will take a photograph of a student seated in medium close up and use Photoshop template to create a front cover with a masthead and some content indicators. You will also create mock up of the contents page, this could be done using Publisher. You will be able to use this to measure you progress by the end of the course.
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.
Research and Planning - worth 20% of the marks
Real Media Texts
You will need to analyse 3 front covers, 3 contents pages and 3 double page spreads from a variety of different real media texts to show you understand the conventions, representation and audience appeal of each of them. This will then be presented on your blog.
The links below show some excellent examples of students blogs:
http://bethurwin.blogspot.co.uk/
http://hannah-kelly.blogspot.co.uk/p/research-into-music-magazines.html
Use of ICT in presentation
Audience
You will also need to research your potential target audience. One of the options is to create an online survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/
You can also do one to one interviews, use focus groups, research the audience profiles of magazines similar to the one you intend to create -http://www.ipcmedia.com/nme
http://www.ipcmedia.com/uncut
http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Kerrang/
http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Mojo/
http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Q/
http://www.futureplc.com/what-we-do/portfolios/music/
Flatplans
These are the paper drawings that you will initially work from. They are a paper copy of the Photoshop template you will be using so you can see where you are going to put images, align text, arrange inserts etc.Here is an example:
Shotplans - ideas for your photoshoots
Risk assessment sheets - you need to fill one out for each location
A shot list
Schedule - a timetable to show organisation of time/actors/equipment
DPS copy - what you're going to write in the article.
Drafts of your planning
Construction - worth 60% of the marks
Evaluation - 20 % of the marks
These are the marking criteria you need to target:
• Understanding of the forms and conventions used in
the productions.
• Understanding of the role and use of new media in
various stages of the production.
• Understanding of the combination of main product and
ancillary texts.
• Understanding of the significance of audience
feedback.
• Skill in choice of form in which to present the
evaluation.
• Ability to communicate.
• Use of digital
technology or ICT in the presentation.
Evaluation Questions:
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. music magazines)
2. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
3. What
kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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 (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to full product?
Use the following advice to help you reflect on your portfolio. You need to go beyond describing what you have done.
G321 Evaluation
