Magazine research: half-term homework

• Colour palettes-five examples of colour palettes you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Fonts-five examples of the type of font you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Audience research (UK Tribes)-which tribe would buy your magazine? They are the tribe/ target audience you are aiming your magazine at.
• Create audience profiles for a male and a female audience member.

Half-term homework challenge

Design challenge.

It's up to you to choose the format e.g.: drawing, photography, collage etc

The briefs are:

• an animal
• a literary hero
• a pattern
• retro inspired
• a clock
• in the style of another artist
• a self-portrait

Pick as few or as many as you want. Combine and adapt as you see fit.

10W - work to do

1. Complete the film poster work
2. Start researching magazines
3. Analyse a magazine cover, contents page and double page spread
4. Look at a full marks example

Magazines - Research and Planning (1) 10W

Genre choices are:

• music 
• fashion
• sport

Today's work:

1. Decide on your genre
2. Research magazine titles within that genre. Make a list of existing titles.
3. Collect images of as many different covers as you can. Group by title e.g. Vogue, Wonderland, iD (all fashion titles).
4. Annotate a magazine cover identifying key features (see post above)

Magazine Research, Planning & Evaluation - Jasmine Aldridge

GCSE Media Studies Coursework - Magazine research and planning from Neill Ford

Poster Evaluation Questions

You need to answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. This is a very important part of this project.

Answer each question in as much detail as possible. Add examples from all parts of your work.

As guidance, the commentary should be around 350–750 words in length; or 5–10 slides if using a PowerPoint style presentation.

• How effective was your research into similar posters and relevant target audiences. What did you learn from your research into these two areas? In what ways did this shape the creation of your posters?
• What creative decisions did you have to make at the different stages of your poster production? How did your posters change as your work progressed?
• How closely does your poster follow the forms and conventions of existing posters? Give examples of real posters you referenced.
• How successful is your finished poster? What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Poster Evaluation - From The Specification

The production exercise should be supported by an evaluative commentary, reflecting on decisions made and explaining how codes and conventions and media language have been employed to convey messages about representation. As with the comparative analytical assignment, the commentary may be written or submitted as a podcast or a slide presentation such as PowerPoint.

As guidance, the commentary should be around 350–750 words in length; or 5–10 slides if using a PowerPoint style presentation; or around three minutes for a podcast.

In the commentary, the following areas must be covered in whatever form the candidate has chosen:

• an account of the research and planning carried out
• how the production is targeted at a particular target audience
• an explanation of the ways in which media language has been used in the production exercise to communicate representation
• an explanation of the ways in which codes and conventions have been used in the production exercise to communicate representation
• an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses within the finished production.