Magazine Planning Questions

Please answer the following questions to plan your Magazine front cover.

FRONT COVER PLANNING

1. What is the title, price and frequency of the your magazine (weekly/monthly)

2. Where will your title be? (Font/position/size/name?)

3. What the pictures will you use? What will they suggest?

4. What information will you give about the magazine’s contents?

5. How will this information be given? (gimmicks, quotes)

6. How will you appeal to your target audience? (Gender, age, type of person)
7. Overall, conclude, how effective you think your front cover will be.

Magazine Front Cover research

Please answer the following: Deadline Wedensday 16th November 2011

FRONT COVER ANALYSIS

1. What is the title, price and frequency of the publication  (weekly/monthly)

2. Denote the title (Font/position/size/name?)

3. Connote the title suggest? (what do these words imply)

4. Denote (describe what is factually there) what the picture suggests?

5. Connote the pictures (what might the meanings be behind the

pictures)

6. What information is given about the magazine’s contents?

7. How is this information given?

8. Who do you think is the target audience? (Gender, age, type of person)

9. How does the cover appeal to the target audience?
10. Overall, conclude, how effective do you think this front cover is.

Research and planning The Omen 2006.

Use both film posters and trailers to discuss the comments below.

How did analysing the film trailer to Omen 2006 help you to think about the conventions of the horror genre?
Discuss the following:

How does this

fit into the horror genre?

What are the

typical conventions?

How does this attract the targeted audience?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuU7WpoPE3Y (Trailer 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqworUizlLk&feature=related (Trailer 2)

EXT: How does this conform to Tdorov's theory?

Advanced Media Portfolio A2. (Out line and timeline)

Media Studies: Advanced portfolio.

Coursework.

Three areas to cover in your coursework:

·         Research and Planning

·         Construction

·         Evaluation

The four questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:  

1.    In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.    How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3.    What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4.    How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Your outcome:

·         A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with two of the following three options:

·         a website homepage for the film;

·         a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

·         a poster for the film.

Timeline

Blogs and research – explain your analysis of existing posters, film trailers and your target audience questionnaire.  (Tuesday 8^th November 2011)

Planning, locations, casting, storyboard (Tuesday 29^th November 2011)

Complete filming (Tuesday 13^th December 2011)

Complete editing (Tuesday 10 January 2012)

Final presentations / evaluations (can be filmed and added to trailer as director’s cuts / voice overs)-Feb (v. short month) (Tuesday 24^th January 2012)

Blog address: http://mediastudieshabe.blogspot.com/

C.Stewart.