Evaluation

As Level Media on Prezi

Music magazine double page spread

Music magazine contents page

Music magazine front cover

production schedule

Music magazine mock ups

Music magazines photos

Photoshop Practice 3

Vocabulary of newspaper/Mags

Puffs: Colourful boxes promoting features inside the magazine

House Style: A magazine's distinctive design that distinguishes it from its competitors. Such as the font the masthead uses

Strap Line: A slogan the magazine uses

Banner: Text which stands out on a coloured background generally at the bottom of the magazine.

Copy: The main story inside the magazine

Anchorage Text: The way in which text helps to pin down the meaning of a picture and vice versa.

Pugs: Placed at the top left and right corners of the paper and are known as the 'ears' of the page. The price of the paper, the logo or a promotion are often positioned there.

Headline: Catchy Title for the main article in the magazine

Sell Lines: Text on the front cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience

Caption: Description of the main image

Masthead: Name of the magazine normally n the top of the front cover

Drop Capitals: Really big letter that starts off an article

Photoshop Practice 2

Genre for my music magazine

For my music magazine i am going to focus on the genre rock i am going take picture which relate to the genre rock and also relate all of the articles to the genre rock

school newsletter photos

newsletter front page design

mood board

mock up newsletter

Double page spread analysis

photoshop practices

Contents Page anaylsis

Front cover anaylsis

St ambrose barlow newsletter anaylsis

Deyes High School letter anaylsis

Cohens moral panic

Cohen’s Moral panic

A threat emerges to societies values which is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion people with social power stir up moral panic such as editors, bishops, politicians and suggest a cause of action, they also try and create a ‘folk devils’ to be the scapegoats

Concern - There must be awareness that the behaviour of the group or category in question is likely to have a negative impact on society.

Hostility - Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become "folk devils". A clear division forms between "them" and "us".

Consensus - Though concern does not have to be nationwide, there must be widespread acceptance that the group in question poses a very real threat to society. It is important at this stage that the "moral entrepreneurs" are vocal and the "folk devils" appear weak and disorganised.

Disproportionality - The action taken is disproportionate to the actual threat posed by the accused group.

Volatility - Moral panics are highly volatile and tend to disappear as quickly as they appeared due to a wane in public interest or news reports changing to another topic

Semiotics

A theorist called sausse start there is a sign signified in everything one example of this is:

If rain is the sign then sadness or a miserable atmosphere is what is being signified 

Denotation – what is there                                                                                                                         

Connotation – what it might mean or suggest  

Semiotics is the study of signs used to describe anything that carries a meaning whether it’s a word, symbol/image or a sound

Media text are encoded by the producers and then decoded by the audience

Signifiers                     

Because of the nature we have to view signs as having two distinct parts:

The signifier which is the physical sign itself and denotations/ connotations – this is the most important thing is that signs are open to many interpretations

Feminism

Feminists believe that media outputs the product of a patriarchal aimed at dis-powering women, feminist hate the idea that women are inferior to men. The sex equality act was not passes until 1975 which meant that women are now equal to men in every way. Laura mulveys theory created a theory called the male gaze. Men dominate the media and construct the media for other men. Objectification of female characters in relation to this controlling male gaze, male movie star or characters such as James Bond are feministic they turn the women in the film into objects also actresses are normally supporting the main role also sometimes the leading actress is just in the film as eye candy to please the male gaze for the male audience.

Media Questionnaire

For the research part of my project i have created a questionnaire to gather information about music magazines. To take part in my questionnaire please follow the link:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0AkE1OQ-D-uzAdGdJY2NrNmxobWtQU3lEWjVHalU3aWc&hl=en_GB

Introduction to My Media Coursework

For my Project I am going to design a music magazine. I am going to create the front cover of the magazine, a contents page and a double page spread for my chosen artist. I am also going to design a college magazine as a mock up. I am going to do research into the music magazine industry and try to identify the conventions and target audience. I will be uploading all of the work that i produce to this blog.