Wednesday 30 September 2009

Key Concepts

These five concepts will help me create a successful Media Production Portfolio:

Language:
The correct/specific terminology that is used when describing media texts.

Institution:
An organisation that creates a media text.

Ideology:
The way something is represented. A system of beliefs we all share. E.g The Good guy beats the Bad guy.

Audience:
Comsumers of Media.
How the audience comsume media and how an institution markets media to the audience.

Representation:
Sterotyping. Social groups. Representating society back at us.

The Brief

Preliminary exercise:
Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine featuring a photograph of a student in a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task:
The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.