The document provides an overview of classroom activities taking place over the course of a week. [1] Students will work on writing supported opinion paragraphs, analyzing news articles, and developing policy statements in groups. [2] Activities focus on connecting ideas, critical thinking, and problem solving. [3] The culminating assignment is for students to write a short memo to an MP on a social issue.
I have learned several new technologies in constructing my media studies coursework project including blogs for organizing my work, Adobe Photoshop for digitally manipulating images and designing magazine pages, and Microsoft programs like PowerPoint for creating slides, Excel for graphs and charts, and SlideShare for uploading slideshows. These digital tools helped make the project more effective and organized.
The document outlines the steps taken to create a magazine front cover, including adding a logo, images, barcodes, issue numbers, colors, cover lines, and borders. Main elements like the logo, images, issue number, and cover lines were incorporated. Fonts and layers were adjusted to make elements like the heading and cover lines more visible and visually appealing. The process resulted in a complete magazine front cover design.
The EssayEastdale Collegiate English DepartmentENG 3U1ENG 4U1Tablmcneeteach
This document provides an outline for writing a 5 paragraph essay, including sections on introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and concluding paragraphs. Key points include introducing the topic and author in the intro, stating a contentious thesis, using specific examples and quotes from the text to support the thesis in each body paragraph, and restating the thesis while tying together the main points in the conclusion. The document aims to guide students in developing a structured essay with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion focused on effectively analyzing a text.
1. The document outlines the steps taken to create a two-page magazine article, including adding a heading with red font on a red background, adding page numbers with borders, and including the magazine's web address.
2. The main article includes an interview with an artist, with questions in italicized red font and answers in black to distinguish them. A large image of the artist is also included.
3. To ensure continuity across the two pages, the same heading, font, and borders are used on the right page, along with additional page numbers, web address, remaining article text, and another image of the artist with a description.
The document describes the steps taken to create a contents page for a music magazine, including choosing an inverted black and white color scheme, adding a list of features in different fonts, giving page numbers a red font for significance, warping images to bulge them, adding page numbers to images in varied colors with stroke effects, and distinguishing the beginning of an editorial with another font.
The target audience for this media product would be males aged 14 and older, particularly young males. This audience tends to be aspirers who want to attain wealth and display extravagant clothing and jewelry to demonstrate their materialistic gains and social status to others.
The document provides an overview of classroom activities taking place over the course of a week. [1] Students will work on writing supported opinion paragraphs, analyzing news articles, and developing policy statements in groups. [2] Activities focus on connecting ideas, critical thinking, and problem solving. [3] The culminating assignment is for students to write a short memo to an MP on a social issue.
I have learned several new technologies in constructing my media studies coursework project including blogs for organizing my work, Adobe Photoshop for digitally manipulating images and designing magazine pages, and Microsoft programs like PowerPoint for creating slides, Excel for graphs and charts, and SlideShare for uploading slideshows. These digital tools helped make the project more effective and organized.
The document outlines the steps taken to create a magazine front cover, including adding a logo, images, barcodes, issue numbers, colors, cover lines, and borders. Main elements like the logo, images, issue number, and cover lines were incorporated. Fonts and layers were adjusted to make elements like the heading and cover lines more visible and visually appealing. The process resulted in a complete magazine front cover design.
The EssayEastdale Collegiate English DepartmentENG 3U1ENG 4U1Tablmcneeteach
This document provides an outline for writing a 5 paragraph essay, including sections on introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and concluding paragraphs. Key points include introducing the topic and author in the intro, stating a contentious thesis, using specific examples and quotes from the text to support the thesis in each body paragraph, and restating the thesis while tying together the main points in the conclusion. The document aims to guide students in developing a structured essay with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion focused on effectively analyzing a text.
1. The document outlines the steps taken to create a two-page magazine article, including adding a heading with red font on a red background, adding page numbers with borders, and including the magazine's web address.
2. The main article includes an interview with an artist, with questions in italicized red font and answers in black to distinguish them. A large image of the artist is also included.
3. To ensure continuity across the two pages, the same heading, font, and borders are used on the right page, along with additional page numbers, web address, remaining article text, and another image of the artist with a description.
The document describes the steps taken to create a contents page for a music magazine, including choosing an inverted black and white color scheme, adding a list of features in different fonts, giving page numbers a red font for significance, warping images to bulge them, adding page numbers to images in varied colors with stroke effects, and distinguishing the beginning of an editorial with another font.
The target audience for this media product would be males aged 14 and older, particularly young males. This audience tends to be aspirers who want to attain wealth and display extravagant clothing and jewelry to demonstrate their materialistic gains and social status to others.
IPC Media is a large media company that produces over 85 iconic brands across print and online. Their print publications alone reach almost two thirds of UK women and 44% of UK men, totaling around 27 million UK adults. Their online brands collectively reach 20 million users every month, making IPC Media an ideal company to distribute a product given their extensive reach across multiple media formats.
The author learned to use Photoshop more proficiently in progressing from their preliminary task to the final product. Specifically, the final front cover uses more professional typography, conventional magazine techniques, and composition compared to the preliminary cover. Additionally, the final contents page includes more images, an editorial, digitally manipulated images, layered effects, transformations, and a range of fonts compared to the simpler preliminary contents page. The author demonstrated a better grasp of Photoshop skills in the final product.
The media product represents social groups by featuring young artists in various poses. One artist is depicted at a party to represent the raving youth aspect, while another is shown meditating to subvert stereotypes of young people. Most hip hop artists are young, so focusing on young musicians adequately represents the hip hop genre collectively while subverting traditional representation methods and conveying messages beyond typical tough or macho hip hop poses.
The document discusses how the media product follows several conventions of real magazines, including using red and black colors, placing the logo in the top left corner, and featuring mid-shots of artists on the cover. It also notes how the masthead emulates the 'XXL' logo but adds creativity, and that cover lines, differing fonts, and including a puff are conventional magazine techniques used.
This document appears to be a survey collecting demographic information and music preferences from respondents. It asks questions about age, ethnicity, music genres listened to, favorite artists, budget for music magazines, desired magazine extras or gifts, recently purchased magazines, purchase frequency, and favorite magazine content like photos, interviews and reviews.
IPC Media is a large media company that produces over 85 iconic brands across print and online. Their print publications alone reach almost two thirds of UK women and 44% of UK men, totaling around 27 million UK adults. Their online brands collectively reach 20 million users every month, making IPC Media an ideal company to distribute a product given their extensive reach across multiple media formats.
The author learned to use Photoshop more proficiently in progressing from their preliminary task to the final product. Specifically, the final front cover uses more professional typography, conventional magazine techniques, and composition compared to the preliminary cover. Additionally, the final contents page includes more images, an editorial, digitally manipulated images, layered effects, transformations, and a range of fonts compared to the simpler preliminary contents page. The author demonstrated a better grasp of Photoshop skills in the final product.
The media product represents social groups by featuring young artists in various poses. One artist is depicted at a party to represent the raving youth aspect, while another is shown meditating to subvert stereotypes of young people. Most hip hop artists are young, so focusing on young musicians adequately represents the hip hop genre collectively while subverting traditional representation methods and conveying messages beyond typical tough or macho hip hop poses.
The document discusses how the media product follows several conventions of real magazines, including using red and black colors, placing the logo in the top left corner, and featuring mid-shots of artists on the cover. It also notes how the masthead emulates the 'XXL' logo but adds creativity, and that cover lines, differing fonts, and including a puff are conventional magazine techniques used.
This document appears to be a survey collecting demographic information and music preferences from respondents. It asks questions about age, ethnicity, music genres listened to, favorite artists, budget for music magazines, desired magazine extras or gifts, recently purchased magazines, purchase frequency, and favorite magazine content like photos, interviews and reviews.