LIIAR

There are five key areas or concepts that you need to understand to be able to study Media Studies effectively , they are;

Language: media technology e.g. Close-ups , editing.

Instition:organization e.g. BBC

Ideology: values/legal/moral. Represents ideas about that social group.

Audience: Consumers of the media. How they consume the media

Representation: Represents our society back to the audience , their values.

THE BRIEF

Preliminary Exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation (Photoshop), produce the font page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in 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 demonstrating their grasp of DTP.


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