Music Magazine Music Magazine CourseworkCourseworkAn introduction to the

coursework

Producing a preliminary task. This means creating a front cover and contents page of a College magazine to practice using various ICT and design skills.

Developing a planning portfolio. This will be achieved through the use of an online blog.

Designing a magazine production. This will involve creating a front cover, contents page and double-page spread for a new music magazine in the digital age.

Evaluating your work. This is explaining how and why you did what you did.

Production work. This means all of the magazine pages. 60%60%

Research & Planning. This is everything you do to develop this work. 20%20%

Evaluation. This means explaining how and why you did what you did. 20%20%

AS MEDIA. Your coursework altogether will make up 50%50% of your total grade for the year.

A2 MEDIA. This means that the coursework alone is worth 25%25% of your total grade.

EPRESENTATIONRAILING

UDIENCE

DEOLOGY

ANGUAGE

NSTITUTION

ARRATIVE

ENRE

REPRESENTATION. This is how you show your awareness of how music artists are portrayed in the media & how they are marketed.

AUDIENCE. This is crucial in the early stages as the way you create the magazine must clearly appeal to the audience. Therefore, you must know as much about them as possible and ‘get into their heads’.

IDEOLOGY. This is all about connecting with the way the artists and audience think, feel, believe and behave…whether they are backed up by powerful figures / organisations or go against them.

LANGUAGE. This is all about communicating with your audience appropriately, using the best techniques and methods.

INSTITUTIONS. These are the people who own and produce the media such as IPC Media (owns NME). You will need to find an appropriate institution for your magazine.

NARRATIVE. This can be about how a magazine follows, manipulates or just presents a news or feature story about a music artist. Artists such as Pete Docherty and Amy Winehouse are associated with the same sort of narrative.

GENRE. New music genres are created all the time. You will learn about smaller niche audiences and you may even be able to go about identifying and stimulating a trend so that it can become a complete music scene (something that music magazines do all the time).