Induction Booklet Don’t loose it Bring it to every lesson

Student Name:.............................. Media Class: Column .....Classroom:...............Media Teacher:...Rasbinder Gill AKA RAZ

rgill@solihullsfc.ac.uk..............................Media 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