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Induction Booklet Don’t loose it Bring it to every lesson
Student Name:.............................. Media Class: Column .....Classroom:...............Media Teacher:...Rasbinder Gill AKA RAZ
[email protected] Staff Workroom: KITSON 314
Introduction to the courseBookletIT jobs
Visit the AS Media course page on Moodle – homework look through the page and resources we haveSet up folders on the H drive (your home area)Make a main folder called AS Media StudiesWithin this create 4 sub-folders:preliminary student magazinemusic magazineTV drama film Industry
Once you finished, log off your computers and sit where I tell you.
Buddy system
Doesn’t stay the same – you will be moved around
Exchange numbers email addresses If you are absent or late, message each other
and get homework. – PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME UNLESS YOU HAVE TRIED MEMBERS OF YOUR CLASS AND THEY HAVE NOT HELPED
Introduction to Magazines
WHAT
WHAT
Topic: Introduction to Magazines
HOWAll MUST
Most SHOULD
Some COULD
To understand the different categories of magazines.
To be able to understand how to create the different
categories of magazines
To be able to understand how the different categories of
magazines can be analysed
As part of your coursework, you will need to analyse and produce your own magazine.
Magazine Categories1.TV listings2.Special Interest3.Women’s Interest4.Men’s Lifestyle5.Weeklies6.Children’s7.Entertainment8.Homes & Gardens9.Computing10.Motoring
Which categories should these go in?
Task One
Empire
PC Format
Woman’s Own
Men’s HealthRugby WorldDogs Today
Go Girl!Radio Times
Heat
GlamourBob the Builder
Popgirl
Mizz
Top GearGood Housekeeping
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• Look at the four magazine covers
• Write which categories you would put them into and why?
FEEDBACK??
Task Two
The purpose and conventions of a Front Cover
Essentially, the front cover functions to entice readers to buy a magazine. Although the reader will spend a fraction of the time they read the magazine focusing on the front, they may not pick it up in the first place unless the front cover is well designed. The front cover is made up of a number of important features. These are common conventions of magazines. For you to create your own magazine, you must understand how these conventions function and what their purpose is.
The Masthead is the name of the magazine and is almost always displayed at the top. Why do you think that is?
The font style and colour will have been chosen extremely carefully to help sell the magazine, as well as give some indication about the content and audience Similarly, the name of the magazine will be carefully chosen. Why is the name important?
What can you say about the mastheads on these magazines?
Only Block D, c & e have done this
Go around the college and think of different Masthead titles you could potentially use for a 1st issue college magazine. – take pics on your phone of things that have inspired you.
This has got to be created into a post – come back to it
Homework
add pink definitions to your pink booklet – I WILL GO THROUGH THEM MAKE ANY NOTES AS YOU GO ALONG
Definitions
Label this magazine using the appropriate terminology
Magazines make most of their money from advertising, and as a result they work hard to attract very specific audiences that advertisers will want to sell products to. Look at the magazine cover; take some notes on who you consider the target audience to be. Take notes on the following and give some evidence from the cover to support each point that you make:
Q Magazine front cover
Audience Profile
How accurate was your profile?BACK OF INDUCTION BOOKLET IS THE AUDIENCE CLASSIFICATION.
You have no covers, take a guess…
which magazine would these products, be advertised in?
1. Women’s Health2. Men’s Health3. Motoring4. Seventeen
Pick 2 magazines from the list above and think about how the TA profile, might affect the front cover, by answering the following questions.: -What kind of pictures might be included on the cover of an issue of the magazine?-Would you expect either of these magazines to be expensive, or cheap?-What kind of articles might you expect in either of these magazines, and why?
Now look at the magazine covers. Were you right in your guesses?
Look through what we done fill in any missing gaps
Homework: Create a TA profile for one of the magazines from the handout or your own mag. (task 2 summer homework)
LOOK ON MOODLE AT THE AS RESOURCES
COMPLETE YOUR GLOSSARY – ALL TO BE DONE FOR THURSDAY
Summer homework???
Only Block D, c & e have done this
Save pictures in your prelim folder. Call the file inspiration for my student Magazine masthead
Give me your title if you have one???
This has got to be created into a post – come back to it
Block d and block have done this
Create a TA profile for your first issue college magazine – create the profile on paper or powerpoint, remember use task 5 to help you.
WE DID NOT FIN THIS – we will come back to this
IT IS NOT HOMEWORK