Unit 4 Disciplines

Unit 4 disciplines

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Online Research

MAGAZINES: PART A

• what were their original purposes’?

We bring you industry news and comment together with the very later from the major vehicle manufacturers ' trade parts programs.

Technical assistance product and pricing information, and details of all the current promotions and special offers - all designed to help your business and your costumers get the best in quality, service and value from original equipment parts.

Before the real advent of the internet, magazines served much greater purpose than they do now. Magazines would be my primary place for hardware and software news and reviews, along with tutorials and hints and tips

Magazines are collections of articles and images about diverse topics of popular interest and current events. Usually these articles are written by journalists or scholars and are geared toward the average adult. Magazines may cover very "serious" material, but usually do not offer consistently scholarly information.

• to find information or opinions about popular culture,

• to locate up-to-date information about current events,

• to read editorials and commentaries of popular interest, and

• to find articles by and for people who are not necessarily specialists.

It depends what kind of magazine we are talking about e.g.: fitness magazines purpose o it to make people understand staying fit its healthy, much more easier to live with a fit body.

We can also talk about what were the purposes of front cover which can be:         

•  attraction 
• Get a sense of what the magazine is about 
• For decorations
• To be different from other magazines

The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, originally derived from the Arabic makhazin "storehouses".

•  What technologies were used to make magazines?

Type used to have to be set up manually - individual letter in racks - then eventually it became cast - now it is done by computer and everything including images are digitised removing the complicated process of colour separatoin, and the need for off-set litho processes of old. The biggest thing that fuelled this was the old printing unions which had a stranglehold on the industry were replaced by electricians for the new electronic techniques and disappeared along with the old processes - it also means that copy can be printed anywhere in the world (wherever's cheapest) or close to the point of distribution............ 

well, it used to be done by a compositor, or page makeup guy, the type face was laid out and blocked together... hot metal... 


MAGAZINES: PART B

• What technologies are currently used to make magazines?

In the past, QuarkXPress was the application of choice for pros, but in the last ten or fifteen years, Adobe has made a couple of excellent products that have been gaining popularity, such as Pagemaker, and it's replacement, InDesign.

These days we use a PC/Mac with either adobe or microsoft software... its a whole lot faster, and doesnt require any real skills...

• How have magazines changed over the last 5-10 years? 
•  Examples:

Magazines changed by the font coverts, different topics, pictures, technology that they using to make magazines. They still uses the Logo - name of the magazines that they started of with, that didn't change. Maybe the paper quality, colors, layouts, design.

Example PRIDE:

Since the launch of Pride magazine back in 1990, we have achieved numerous landmarks – from producing the first-ever UK monthly black publication, to becoming the foremost publisher of black magazines in Europe.
Pride Media has grown into what is now a fully integrated solutions and publication house specializing in a range of activities for clients who want to target the ethnic-minority community in all its complexities.

Even in one month they change a lot in a magazine you can see this by the cover.

- celebrity

- two different 

- different content

- different and wide range of font styles

- different colors

- contrast

- bar code position

- Title color

HOw they make magazines now days:

Interviews

In this task we had to interview people to have primary research from our target audience.
These are the videos we had for Media Diploma Unit 4, 4.1 objective. I had to interview 5 person who were in year 8 and 9. I was upset when this tasks was set so I only interviewed one of the year 8's student, she game me permission to take a video of her.  The other girls got interviewed by Paula who is in my group. She also got a permission from one of the girls to take videos and one of them to take a picture. The rest was done in paper.
We also had the teacher and because we were only four o us in this group we interview them as a group but in the Video we can only see Paula and the teacher.


This a the first video of me interviewing one of the girls

This is the second video with Paula and one of the students

And this is the picture.

Target Audience Research Phase 1

1. What did you learn from the interviews?

I learned that most of the peoples likes reading fashion magazines, I also learned that there are not lot of different things people like to see in a magazine but I think it depends on the target audience. Magazines should have equal or a little but more pictures to suit the audience.

2. What trends (similarities/differences) are you noticing?

I learned that most of the peoples likes reading fashion magazines, I also learned that there are not lot of different things people like to see in a magazine but I think it depends on the target audience. Magazines should have equal or a little but more pictures to suit the audience. The differences that I noticed that the people  I interview they all like reading different parts of each magazine. The similarities that I have been noticing in each interviews is that most people likes looking at photos, celebrities, fashion tips etc. Most of them don't like to read long articles, they want brief information about the articles and more pictures, also they don't like when there is to much of the advertising.  

3. How does this affect your decision as to what goes in the school magazine?

Because I haven't decided to what really is going in to the school magazine I didn't Really had ideas that I could of changed. But it did effected it one way, I know now that I need to find out who is my target audience before I start the magazine, I need to consider what would be the best for them , if it can have long articles and less pictures or more pictures and less writing.

Class Interviews

 Sixth Formers                                                  

Name: Urrsula
Age: 17
Year/role: Year 13
Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Black African
Location/region: London
Class/status: Working Class

Interests: Gaming

Hobbies: Shopping, going out with friends

Questions:

What magazines do you currently like?

Hello, OK!

What do you like about them?

Latest gossip, clothes

What do you not like about them?

To much adverts, not interested articles

What do you enjoy looking at in magazines?

Celebrities how they live, clothes fashion

What do you not enjoy looking at?

Adverts, boring articles

What do you enjoy reading about in magazines?

Celebrities life style

What do you not enjoy reading about?

boring articles, adverts, to much writing

In your opinion, what makes a magazine attractive and enjoyable to look at?

Layout, colours, pictures

What do you think are essential things that must be considered/put in in any magazine?
Pictures and imporatnt articles

What kinds of things/pages would you like to read in a school magazine?

Universities

What would you not like to read about?

Students goal, about the school

What do you think other students would want in a magazine?

Yr 7 :______Games, how to make new friends__________

Yr 8/9  :______Getting ready for GCSE_________

Yr10/11  :________Colleges__________

Sixth form  :______University___________        

Teachers  :________Organisation tips, time management_______

 Sixth Formers                                                  

Name: Andreea Cristea
Age: 17
Year/role: Year 13
Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  White
Location/region: London
Class/status: Working Class

Interests: Drama, Media fashion

Hobbies: Shopping, going out with friends, rollerskating

Questions:

What magazines do you currently like?

Hello, OK! New! fashion magazines

What do you like about them?

Cover titles font pictures

What do you not like about them?

To much writing

What do you enjoy looking at in magazines?

Cover of it, horoscopes, pictures
What do you not enjoy looking at?

Articles about diet
What do you enjoy reading about in magazines?

Gossip, who wears what, love lifes
What do you not enjoy reading about?

Diets not catchy titles adverts
In your opinion, what makes a magazine attractive and enjoyable to look at?

Layout, font, titles and loads of pictures
What do you think are essential things that must be considered/put in in any magazine?

Pictures and imporatnt articles

What kinds of things/pages would you like to read in a school magazine?

Universities, ucas, gossip

What would you not like to read about?

Advertising the school
What do you think other students would want in a magazine?

Yr 7 :Games, school trips, hanna montana stikers, imformation about the school

Yr 8/9  :______Getting ready for GCSE , tips and pictures_________

Yr10/11  :________Colleges, GSCE results, new stlye (fashion)__________

Sixth form  :______University, Ucas___________        

Teachers  :____Organisation tips, time management, about students____

 Sixth Formers                                                  

Name: Anicia Brown
Age: 17
Year/role: Year 13
Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Black Carabien
Location/region: London
Class/status: Working Class

Interests: Media take pictures
Hobbies: Shopping, athletics. eating, music

Questions:

What magazines do you currently like?

Free TV magazines

What do you like about them?

Get to know what is going on in the TV quide

What do you not like about them?

To much writing

What do you enjoy looking at in magazines?

pictures
What do you not enjoy looking at?

Long text and articles
What do you enjoy reading about in magazines?

Celebrities and fashion, tv programs
What do you not enjoy reading about?

Adverts, serious articles
In your opinion, what makes a magazine attractive and enjoyable to look at?

Layout, font, titles and loads of pictures
What do you think are essential things that must be considered/put in in any magazine?

Pictures and imporatnt articles

What kinds of things/pages would you like to read in a school magazine?

Universities, ucas, school problems
What would you not like to read about?

Advertising the school
What do you think other students would want in a magazine?

Yr 7 :   Games and pictures

Yr 8/9  :_______GSCE results________

Yr10/11  :________College, Sixth Form__________

Sixth form  :______University, Ucas___________        

Teachers  :____Organisation tips, time management, about students____

Overall Diploma Grade and Progress Tracker Chart

Name

APS

FS ICT

FS Maths

FS Eng

Unit 1 Mark

Unit 1 Grade

Unit 2 Mark

Unit 2 Grade

Unit 3 Mark

Unit 3 Grade

Current Overall Grade

Predicted Overall Grade

Unit 4 Mark

Unit 4 Grade

AS 1 Media ALIS

AS 1 Media Target

AS 2 Drama ALIS

AS 2 Drama Target

2.3

N

N

Y

D

B

Unit 4: Assignment 1: Magazine Analysis, Teacher Assessment

 This is The feedback that I got from Miss Connell for my Magazine Presentation.
 I know that I need to include more information about the target audience to show my understanding of it.
I Have to have more pictures to support what I'm saying and a much clear layout I will all do this in my second draft of this presentation.

Assignment 1: Magazine Analysis

Our task was to do a presentation on 3 different magazines and in each magazine use PASCOE to help to do the analysis which is:
- Purpose - Audience - Style - Content - Effect
I had to do this in each slide. This is my first draft.

Fist Assignment for Unit 4

Analyzing Magazines !


Use Pascoe to complete an analysis
P purpose
A audience
S style
C content
O organisation
E effect

1. What is the name of the magazine and what is its overall purpose? How do you know this?
a) Why do you think the magazine gave it the name that it has? What about the logo design?
2. Who is the target audience of the magazine? How do you know this?
a) Consider details of target audience: age, gender, ethnicity, interests/hobbies, values, attitudes, lifestyle, social status, income, consumer behaviour etc.)
3. What are your comments about the overall style of the magazine?
4. What is the content of the magazine? (what kinds of things do they feature or write about?)
5. How do they organise the magazine? What are your comments about the layout?  (consider, design, shapes/colours, font style, text boxes, bullet points, titles etc)
6. What is the effect of the magazine on the audience? (consider emotions)