Magazine Cover Construction Task

The task is to construct a music magazine cover in one lesson.
You must do the following:

1. Choose a magazine name from the list I have provided. This will normally take a long time, hence the prearranged selection.
2. Decide on a suitable cover star (or stars) of your choice.
3. Have a quick look at coverjunkie for ideas.
4. Pick a font.
5. Include several examples of relevant text.
6. Add a bar code, issue number, month and price.

This is the version I made as an example:

Magazine Names

• Drone
• Reverb
• Deadline
• MMM (Modern Music Monthly)
• ARP
• Resonate
• The Mix
• Frontline
• Riff
• Rockwrok
• X
• Vox
• Rumpus
• FANDANGO
• Turntablist
• Freak Out!
• Invisible Jukebox
• Amok
• fred

Choose a magazine name from the list above, don't over-think it, just pick the first one that you like the look of and go with it.

Random Magazine (Construction Elements)

The following elements were used in the construction of my example magazine cover.

Rick Rubin is a famous record producer (Jay Z, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Adele, Run-D.M.C amongst many others). He was the co-founder of Def Jam records and also established American Recordings.

I cut the image out using the magic wand tool and also slimmed him down slighty. The American part of the tagline is a reference to him and also a nod to his record company American Recordings.

 I cut out a portion of the stars and stripes and pasted it over the I in Rubin.

I think the barcode is slightly too big on the final version. On your magazine choose a barcode that has a random number like the one above and not a 0123456789 one.


The font I chose is BEBAS NEUE. I like the clean lines and crisp style of this font. It matches the overall idea I had in mind for my magazine.

LIAR-A Simple Way To Analyse A Text (Year 10)

Language
Institution
Audience
Representation

Use these four headings to analyse a Magazine cover, CD cover, film poster or DVD cover of your choice. 

Analyse at least two. 

If you can, analyse an example from each type of media listed.

Refer to your books or the SlideShare presentation (Slides 8,11,12,13) on my blog to help remind you of  the definitions.

Complete work using Word and stick the finished creation in your learning journal.

Media Studies Introduction (Year 10)

GCSE Media Studies Introduction from fordford

French Film Club

Year 10 Media Work To Do

Make sure you are up to date with all work so far.

Ensure that you have underlined the date and heading/ sub-headings on each page of your journal.

You need to have completed the following:

1. 5X5 activity
2. Make sure you have copied down the information from the Introduction to Media Studies presentation (slides 3,4,8,10,11,12,13)
3. Finish the LIAR activity

All work needs to be pasted into your journals.

When you complete these tasks then move on to the representation mood board activity.

11W: Work To Do

By the end of the lesson complete the following:

• send me your blog address
• post your magazine work on your blogs-add images as jpegs, PowerPoints need to be uploaded to SlideShare and then posted to blog, Word documents need to be uploaded to Scribd and then posted to blog.
• Send me a zipped file with all your work so far. The zipped file should contain:

1. Your essay in a folder entitled ESSAY
2. Your poster work in a folder entitled POSTERS
3. Your magazine work in folder entitled MAGAZINES
4. THE ZIP FILE NEEDS TO HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT: YOUR NAME/ 11W/ MEDIA

Coventions (Year 10)

Media studies gcse representation from tcasman

Year 11 Work To Do

• Set up a blog
• Email the blog address to: n.ford@lc.leics.sch.uk
• Post 5x5 onto blog
• Make sure your research is finished
• Ensure all parts of the magazine work are completed too
• Answer the evaluation questions
• If necessary begin extension work

Extension Work-Year 11

The area we will be covering is Institution and Audience.

As a starting point I want you to think about some of the TV comedies that you've seen recently

• What made you want to watch those comedies? 
• Try to think beyond peer influence and consider any other factors that contributed to your choice.
• Did you like or dislike the comedies?
• What factors impacted or your enjoyment or lack of enjoyment?
• Compose a post with your conclusions.