Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Top Of The Pops-The Magazine

 The magazine me and my partner were assigned to do stuck to a consistent colour scheme. The usual colours used in this magazine are bright and colourful, just like the title colours: yellow, pink, white. The front page is always bright and consists of many different colours, this magazine is aimed at the younger teenage generation, hence the chosen colours.


Generally Top Of the Pop have the same layout for ll their magazines and the same colour schemes run throughout the magazine, but the front cover is always bright because it is aimed at the youger generation, who appreciate eye catching things.

Monday, 24 January 2011

Research and Analysis of TopOfThePops Music Magazine

We were placed in to pairs, and were each given a Music Magazine to research on "Top Of The Pops"





We were told to research and find out about the following points:

  • Three front covers of our magazine and analyze the convections of the front cover
  • Who is the main audience for the magazine, and how we know
  • What is their circulation, how many, who buy the magazine
  • How do they attract and satisfy their audience
  • Who owns, distributes the magazine and where it is sold
  • Do they have an on-line version, and how it compares to the printed copy
  • How they have used technologies to develop their product, such as software, hardware new media they may have used and why
Google link to powerpoint:
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AdKilrYG8iAfZGZrN3dtdzZfMWNkdGhwOXF6&hl=en

Music Magazine Unit

Main task: to produce a front cover, contents page and double page spread with an interview, of a new music magazine produced from scratch. Maximum four members to a group (if done as a group task, each member of the group must produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style throughout the magazine) 
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate must be present in the magazine.


This unit is worth 50% of the AS.
The assessment objectives for this unit are:


AO2-10%
Applying knowledge and understanding to show how meanings are created when analyzing media products and evaluating their own practical work


AO3-30%
Demonstrating the ability to plan and construct media products using appropriate technical and creative skills


AO4-10%
Demonstrating the ability to undertake and apply appropriate research needed to construct the magazine