Tuesday 24 September 2013

Level 4 Magazine example













Evaluation Assessment Criteria

Dear Yr12

Please find the assessment criteria a level 4 grade for the evaluation.

Level 4 16–20 marks

  • Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.
  • Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.
  • Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
  • Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
  • Excellent ability to communicate.

Friday 20 September 2013

Evaluation

Dear Yr12

For your evaluation you must answer the following 7 questions.

The evaluation must be approximately 1500 words or 200 - 250 per question. Any evaluation with a word count that is a lot lower than this will be penalised.

  • In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
  • How does your media product represent particular social groups?
  • What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
  • Who would be the audience for your media product?
  • How did you attract/address your audience?
  • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
  • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
You must also include some audience feedback in your evaluation. By using a poll gadget on your blog you must ask peoples opinion and respond to what they have said.
Please include visual examples to support your answers.

Layout Plans for Magazine Pages

Dear yr 12,



Once you have finished the research into Magazine institutions, your next task is to design the layout for your draft music magazine pages (front cover, contents page,feature article).


Please note that you have the option of designing a single or double page for the contents page. The feature article must however, consist of a combination of images and text to spread across four pages.


Below are some examples of past students' work.


Front Cover





Contents page





Feature Article




Assessment Criteria for Production Work

Foundation Portfolio Mark Scheme

The mark schemes shown are generic and teachers are advised to adopt the ‘best fit’ approach. If the candidate has covered all the criteria effectively they should be awarded a mark towards the top of the level or if there are certain omissions or weaknesses, towards the bottom end.

Print

Level 3 36–47 marks
There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:

· framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;
· using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;
· shooting material appropriate to the task set;
· selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and
setting;
· manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation
including cropping and resizing;
· accurately using language and register;
· appropriately integrating illustration and text;
· showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;
· showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;
· using ICT appropriately for the task set.


Level 4 48–60 marks
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

· framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;
· using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;
· shooting material appropriate to the task set;
· selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and
setting;
· manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation,
including cropping and resizing;
· accurately using language and register;
· appropriately integrating illustration and text;
· showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;
· showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;
· using ICT appropriately for the task set.

Thursday 19 September 2013

Planning a Music Magazine


You must produce a questionnaire which will be aimed at your target audience. The questionnaire is your way of finding out about the interests of your audience and they should then influence your planning for your magazine (see below).


Please answer the questions below on your magazine idea:

Who is your target audience?


What style, genre or time of music is your magazine about or is going to appeal to a range of music tastes?


How often will your magazine come out, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or bi-monthly?


How much will your magazine cost? Consider who your target audience is and also how often your magazine comes out.


Is your magazine going to be glossy like Q Magazine or more like a newspaper like NME?

Foundation Portfolio Production Tips

Title Block Analysis













Hi Year 12

Studying the music magazine titles above, please analyse at least 3 considering the following points:
1. Can you tell what genre of music the magazine is about?

2. What do the colours used in the title font tell you? Why have they been used?

3. What does the font used tell you about the magazine, what connotations (meaning do they create?)
4. What does the title itself tell you about the magazine? What might the title mean or infer?

5. Think about the target audience for this magazine, does the title give you any information about who they might be?










Wednesday 18 September 2013

Double Page Article Analysis



Hi Yr 12

Here are some questions to guide you with analysing the feature article:

How does the choice of band featured in the article suggest who the target audience will be?

What type of language is used in the article? Give examples of words or phrases which are specific to the style of the magazine.

How is colour used?

What style of text is used?

How is the double page spread laid out?

How much of the pages are taken up by images and how much by text?

What sort of tone is the magazine using when addressing the reader (as a close friend, a member of an “in” crowd or an informed intelligent fan)?

How is the artist/band presented to the audience through the images?

How does the style of the article match the style of the front cover of the magazine?

Does the article demand any prior knowledge when reading the article? Give examples

Friday 13 September 2013

Contents Page Analysis




Hi Yr12,

Please find below some questions and help on completing your contents page analysis.
Does the magazine use images?

How have these images been constructed?

How do they support your initial findings about the style of the magazine and its intended audience?

What colours and fonts are used? Does this support the style of the front cover?

How is the information organised so that it is accessible to the audience?

What are the different sections? What does this tell you about the magazine?

Are there any promotional features?

Is the magazine logo placed anywhere on the page? How dominant is it?

Does the brand have any other franchises?

Are these promoted on the contents page?

Thursday 12 September 2013

Analysing a Music Magazine Cover


Dear Year12

Analyse the front cover using the prompts below.

What type of magazine is it? From the front cover what kinds of issues/articles are going to be inside?

Who is the target audience for the magazine? What particular age group? What are their interests?

Look at the central image. What mode of address is the mag using?

What does this tell you about the type of relationship it wants with its reader?

Who is on the front cover and why?

What does the anchorage text say? What does this imply about the artist??

What overall message is the artist giving?

Are any groups being represented? How does the magazine represent them?

Are there any ‘buzz’ words? What effect does it have on the reader?

What does design of the title block tell you about the magazine

What does the title of the magazine tell you about
1. the readership
2. its image
3. its style

What do the ‘puffs’ suggest will be inside the magazine? What does this tell you about the type of audience the magazine expects to get?

Is there a slogan? What does it tell you about the magazine? How does it help to attract readers?
What colours are used? Do you find them attractive? What fonts are used and why?

What strategies does the magazine use to attract the audience?

Tuesday 10 September 2013

Evolution of Britney Spears

Hi Yr12


Your first main assessment is to analyse how the representation of Britney Spears across three Rolling Stone covers.

Please find below a selection of Rolling Stone magazine covers with Britney on the front and questions to aid you in analysing them. This exercise should help you consider more the importance of the central image on the cover of a magazine.You can clearly see the evolution of Britney Spears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. How are these images constructed to present ideas about the star? Remember, in the first cover she is only 17!


Answer the following questions about each cover making sure that you use appropriate terminology:



1) How has the image been framed/cropped? What type of shot has been used and why? What type of magazine is this typical of?
2) Describe Britney’s costume. What does it suggest about her image? Who is this appealing to?
3) Have any props been used? What messages are they conveying to the audience?
4) What setting is used and what are the connotations of this?
5) Are any intertextual references being made? What are the connotations of this?
6) What colours are used and why?




1) How has the image been framed/cropped? What type of shot has been used and why?
2) Describe Britney’s costume and pose. What type of relationship does she want with the reader?
3) What setting is used and what are the connotations of this?
4) How is lighting used?
5) What colours are used and why?

1) Why has this image been chosen? Is the use of black and white significant?
2) How has the image been cropped?
3) What type of relationship does Britney want with the audience? Is this supported by the anchorage text?

Course Overview















Welcome Yr12

This blog will contain everything you need to complete your coursework. On it Ms Schoburgh and I will post coursework tasks, deadlines and other important information, so please use it regularly.


Below is a summary of your coursework brief for this year.

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.


The best coursework is always from students who work hard, take the time to produce good images for their magazine and are organised to meet all the deadlines set.

We wish you the best of luck

Mr Skinner and MS Schoburgh