Proposal Table

This is a short video created with PowToon to showcase some conventions that I will use in my magazine and some that I will subvert. It covers a basic overall brief.

This video made me do some research and helped me to outline several useful things

> Magazines that will inspire me

> Artists of my genre

> My target audience 

> Conventions I want to use and subvert (though this is subject to change)

> Problems I may face

> Who I will use as my model

This Prezi was done as an introduction presentation for my course. It shows what I know about magazines, specifically magazines of my chosen genre, from my own knowledge. I will apply the conventions outlined in this presentation in making my own magazine.

Going through my initial ideas helps me to outline my own aims with this course and choose a direction for my magazine. I can refer back to this at later points in the course to check my initial ideas against the product I am creating.

The Brief

Brief

When centres choose briefs to offer to candidates, they should be guided by their strengths in terms of resources and expertise. Centres should also bear in mind the key areas: forms and conventions, production contexts, the role of technologies, audiences/users and representations.

The set briefs are as follows:
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 DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Aims Of The Course

Aims

The aims of these specifications are to:

• enhance candidates enjoyment and appreciation of the media and its role in their daily lives; 
• develop critical understanding of the media through engagement with media products and concepts and through the creative application of practical skills; 
• explore production processes, technologies and contexts; 
• become independent in research skills and their application.

Welcome!

Welcome to my AS Media blog where I will be posting my work from the course. Enjoy!