Year 12 Media Studies Foundation Portfolio

Plan for Magazine

When you have concluded your research (worth 20 marks) – at least six blog posts including your assessment of survey data you have collected, you can move onto writing and posting the plan for your own magazine. In this you need to include:

Outline:
Name?
Genre of music?
Why have you chosen to do this? Refer to your research data as part of your justification.
Audience: who is it targeted at? Why?
Institutions: large publishing/media company (emap, IPC) or independent production. What might be the advantages of your chosen institutional background?

Design:

Comment on your initial ideas for:
Fonts (type/size, one or many)
Page layout/design
This is the ‘look’ of the magazine – explain how you will achieve it

Content

What are your ideas for your front page, contents page and double page spread? These don’t have to be too specific at this stage – just make sure you get ideas down. Where will you take pictures? Use of technology/ICT?

Language

Will you have a house style? An idiolect that will be shared and give ‘ownership’ of the magazine for your target audience can be a good idea – what will yours be?

Probably enough to be going on with for now…