Tasks to be completed and posted on blogs by Monday 30 September:
The Mark Scheme
Research & Planning: 20 Marks
Planning and
research evidence will be complete and detailed;
o
There is
excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience;
o
There is
excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;
o
There is
excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;
o
There is an
excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;
o
Time
management is excellent.
- Set up a blog and email me your blog address:
lcottrell@ludlow-college.ac.uk
- Write your first blog post – Introduction to Brief
As
part of my AS media coursework, the brief requires me to create the front page,
contents and a double page feature spread of a new music magazine. I have
created this blog in order to record my research and planning which will help
me to produce a successful magazine.
- Write your second blog post - Introduce Preliminary Task and Action
Plan for Preliminary Task
Before
I start the main task, I first will complete the preliminary task which is
to.....
- Post
generic conventions research on blogs
Here's a student example from last year:
Generic Conventions of Student Magazines
- Research and Planning: Textual Analysis of a student magazine
For this task I would like you to
analyse the front cover and contents page of a student magazine.
- Research and planning: research target audience
Next step is to research your target
audience. Before you begin designing the magazine you need to establish what
the audience, students, want the magazine to look like, what kind of content
they want in it…etc.
Think of five – six questions that you can
ask to help you identify what the audience – students – want from the magazine.
Possible questions to ask could be:
• Title
• Layout
/ style
• Content
• Price
• Colour
scheme / visual style
• Language
style
• Images
/ of who? / locations?
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Ask questions that require more than a Yes / No
response.
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Find some people to ask (3/4 would be ideal)
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Film it using Photobooth
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Upload the video file on to your blog and add a
short commentary which
explains what you have learnt from the research.
7. Research
and planning: initial ideaCreate a blog post called ‘initial ideas’ and outline your
thoughts / ideas so far about what kind of student magazine you are going to
create.
You could use the following subheadings:
House style / brand identity
Mode of address
Central image
Content
Use of language
Colour palette
Use of fonts
A clear and concise initial ideas post
8.
Research
and planning: Experimentation with fonts, colour schemes and mode of address /
name of magazine
Three separation blog posts which demonstrate that you have
thought about each of these areas. The posts do not need to be very long but
they do need to reflect that you are basing your decisions on what you’ve found
out from your research: audience and genre.
9.
Research
and planning: Mock ups
Produce a mock up of your front cover and contents page.
