Foundation Portfolio

Presentation of Planning and Research

1. Annotation of 2 music magazines (front cover and contents page and double-page spread)
2. Detailed analysis of one music magazine; analyse the relevant four pages.
3. Analyse some student magazines
4. Prelim task and evaluation,

College magaine front cover
College magazine contents page
Camera shots
College magazine mock up front cover DRAFT
College magazine mock up contents page DRAFT

5. a)Mock up of magazine DTP
b)Mock up of magazine Contents Page


6. Uses and gratifications of magazines
7. Proposal for magazine
8. Questionnaire
9. Results of questionnaire
10. Masthead with analysis
11. Magazine moodboard
12. Breakdown of institutional features
13. Screengrabs throughout of Photoshop and DTP


Construction

Magazine Front Cover
Magazine Contents Page
Magazine Double-Page Spread


Evaluation (plus audience feedback)
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
8. Audience Feedback