This document provides an induction booklet for students taking a Media Studies course. It outlines various topics that will be covered in lessons, including magazines, film industry, and TV drama. It instructs students to set up folders on their computers to organize coursework. It introduces the concept of magazine categories and target audiences. Students are given tasks to analyze magazine covers and mastheads, and identify target audiences. Homework includes adding definitions to a glossary and creating a target audience profile for a magazine.

1. Induction Booklet
 Don’t loose it
 Bring it to every lesson
Student Name:..............................
Media Class: Column .....
Classroom:...............
Media Teacher:...Rasbinder Gill AKA RAZ
rgill@solihullsfc.ac.uk..............................
Media Staff Workroom: KITSON 314

2. Introduction to the course
Booklet
IT jobs
Visit the AS Media course page on Moodle –
homework look through the page and resources we
have
Set up folders on the H drive (your home area)
Make a main folder called AS Media Studies
Within this create 4 sub-folders:
preliminary student magazine
music magazine
TV drama
film Industry
Once you
finished, log off
your computers
and sit where I
tell you.

3. Buddy system
 Doesn’t stay the same – you will be moved
around
 Exchange numbers email addresses
 If you are absent or late, message each other
and get homework. – PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT
ME UNLESS YOU HAVE TRIED MEMBERS OF YOUR
CLASS AND THEY HAVE NOT HELPED

4. Introduction to Magazines
WHAT

5. WHAT Topic: Introduction to
Magazines
HOW
All MUST
Most SHOULD
Some COULD
To understand the different
categories of magazines.
To be able to understand how to
create the different categories
of magazines
To be able to understand how
the different categories of
magazines can be analysed

6. As part of your coursework, you will need to analyse and produce
your own magazine.
Magazine Categories
1.TV listings
2.Special Interest
3.Women’s Interest
4.Men’s Lifestyle
5.Weeklies
6.Children’s
7.Entertainment
8.Homes & Gardens
9.Computing
10.Motoring
Which categories should these go in?
Task One
Empire
PC Format
Woman’s Own
Men’s Health
Rugby World
Dogs Today
Go Girl!
Radio Times
Heat
GlamourBob the Builder
Popgirl
Mizz
Top Gear
Good Housekeeping

7. .
• Look at the four magazine
covers
• Write which categories you
would put them into and
why?
FEEDBACK??
Task Two

8. The purpose and
conventions of a Front Cover
 Essentially, the front cover functions to entice
readers to buy a magazine. Although the reader
will spend a fraction of the time they read the
magazine focusing on the front, they may not pick
it up in the first place unless the front cover is well
designed. The front cover is made up of a number
of important features. These are common
conventions of magazines. For you to create your
own magazine, you must understand how these
conventions function and what their purpose is.

9. The Masthead is the name of the magazine and is almost always displayed
at the top.
Why do you think that is?
The font style and colour will have been chosen extremely carefully to
help sell the magazine, as well as give some indication about the
content and audience
Similarly, the name of the magazine will be carefully chosen. Why is the
name important?

10. What can you say about the mastheads on
these magazines?

11. Only Block D, c & e have
done this
 Go around the college and think of different
Masthead titles you could potentially use for a 1st
issue college magazine. – take pics on your
phone of things that have inspired you.
 This has got to be created into a post – come
back to it

12. Homework
add pink definitions to your
pink booklet – I WILL GO
THROUGH THEM MAKE ANY
NOTES AS YOU GO ALONG
Definitions

13. Label this magazine using
the appropriate
terminology

14.  Magazines make most of their money from advertising, and as a
result they work hard to attract very specific audiences that
advertisers will want to sell products to. Look at the magazine
cover; take some notes on who you consider the target
audience to be. Take notes on the following and give some
evidence from the cover to support each point that you make:
 Q Magazine front cover

15. Audience
Profile
How accurate was your
profile?
BACK OF INDUCTION
BOOKLET IS THE
AUDIENCE
CLASSIFICATION.

16. You have no covers, take
a guess…
 which magazine would these products, be
advertised in?
1. Women’s Health
2. Men’s Health
3. Motoring
4. Seventeen

17. Pick 2 magazines from the list above and
think about how the TA profile, might affect
the front cover, by answering the following
questions.:
-What kind of pictures might be included
on the cover of an issue of the magazine?
-Would you expect either of these
magazines to be expensive, or cheap?
-What kind of articles might you expect in
either of these magazines,
and why?

18. Now look at the magazine covers. Were you
right in your guesses?

19. Look through what we
done fill in any missing
gaps

20. Homework: Create a TA profile for
one of the magazines from the
handout or your own mag. (task 2
summer homework)
LOOK ON MOODLE AT THE AS
RESOURCES
COMPLETE YOUR GLOSSARY – ALL
TO BE DONE FOR THURSDAY
Summer homework???

21. Only Block D, c & e have
done this
 Save pictures in your prelim folder. Call the file
inspiration for my student Magazine masthead
 Give me your title if you have one???
 This has got to be created into a post – come
back to it

22. Block d and block have
done this
 Create a TA profile for your first issue college
magazine – create the profile on paper or
powerpoint, remember use task 5 to help you.
 WE DID NOT FIN THIS – we will come back to this
 IT IS NOT HOMEWORK