I am starting to plan my Media Portfolio.
Brief
Preliminary Exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation programme, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up some appropiatley laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you 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 you - minimum of four images.
The five key concepts which i must take on board are:
- Language - Specfic terms used in Media.
- Institution - An organisation which produces in media text.
- Ideology - The Values and system of beliefs we all share as a society. Capitalism and Democracy
- Audience - Consumers of media. The institution targets a specific audience.
- Representation - Re-presentation - The media re-present society back to the audience and it's values. The values are the ideology.
I have already made some decisions about the magazine. I have decided about the gender which will be neutral so that it can be advertised and showed to all students who read it. The age for the audience will be 16-18 yr olds which i think will be a suitable age goup.
