MEST 4 Research and Planning

10 most influential footballers of the decade

Overview

10 most influential footballers of the decade.

It will be a cover and magazine article. The production will link with our critical

investigation. Ethnic minorities and heroes.

Media Language

Single word masthead. So its hard hitting.

More PUG’s on the front cover. As it follows the conventions.

Less text and more images. To keep the audience engaged.

Magazine typography

Institutions

Competitions and prizes on the front cover. In order to attract readers.

Sport magazines tend to use this to promote sports related products.

Most formal sport magazines are done by broadcasting institutions.

Genre Conventions

Conventions such as having more images and less text, as our research has told us.

The cover will feature a well known and established athlete which is common in sports magazine.

Taglines to anchor the image/masthead.

Representation

The representations we want to show/see are if ethnic minorities have a bigger role in sports

This is shown through the Influential footballers; how influential they’ve been.

Audeince

Our audience age group is 18-30 and demographic is C/D audiences

These are the typical audience group that read sports magazines.

Ideology

We want to look at ethnic minorities compared to British athletes and also if athletes still are portrayed as heroes in the media

The article does this Also connotes if Britain is nationalist

Pre-Planning Action Plan

We will be doing an article looking at the top 10 most influential footballers and also a front cover to anchor the article.

We will be using photoshop and publisher to create this.