30/11/10

Abby -  alot more to do for your research- make sure your posts are detailed in their analysis - are you doing this for homework?

Research to be done :

- Needs to be good detailed focus on audience research - outline your target audience ( demographic and psychographic profiling - see your first pack)
- Look on the uk tribes website and post some videos on your blog - http://www.uktribes.com/ (password = iblametheparents)
- 10 target audience questionnaires with feedback - graphs and charts to be put on your blog too.

- Genre: Look and analyse the conventions of the music magazine genre and also the music genre/s that you will focus upon in the magazine - post some music videos (from youtube) on your blog that illustrate the kinds of artists that you would have in your magazine.

- Institution: who will publish your magazine - see the foundation portfolio blog - for links to companies

THEN you can move onto your planning - see the before you blog sheet for what planning needs to be done - this should be being done in class AND for homework at the moment!

Miss McNulty

Feedback 16.11.10

Hello! 

a) Dont forget to follow the 'Before You Blog'! sheet ...

b) Also dont forget to label each post- by copying the title of your post into the bottom left labels box on your post!

c) Be detailed in your analysis and comments on images etc...

d) and remember to make your blog creative! You can add different elements to make your research and planning more creative .. how you present your research and planning is up to you e.g.

- images (scanned drawn images, phtotds you have taken as a record or ones you find on the Internet)

You can also label ,contents pages and feature articles on Word and put them into your blog posts (Using command , shift and 4 keys and it will save as a JPEG image)

- videos ( from youtube - or even ones you film of yourself discussing your R and P)

- Graphs and Charts - e.g. top 20 album chart etc...

- links to websites you found useful while researching

- Audience research - make questionnaires or write questions and film people giving their responses!

Remember that you must continue this for homework to complete it all to a good standard...

Miss McNulty

Here are some links to some interesting blogs...

http://www.alevelmediastudies09-11.blogspot.com/ : Really good magazine blog

http://www.wix.com/dementedpics/demented-pics-2 (look at their Thriller research and then Thriller directors research!)

http://yaleblock1mediaproject.blogspot.com/: Really good opening sequence and blog

Introduction to the foundation project

Abby Lawson - British music magazine

The genre of the magazine will be rock and i think i'm going to make the magazine unisex because most of British rock magazines are aimed towards males.