Media Coursework- Pre-liminary Task Brief

For Media, we have to do coursework. We were given the choice of 4 briefs: Print, Video, Audio and Website. I have chosen to do Print as the school has the resources that i would need to use in my coursework.

Preliminary Task Brief: I have to produce the front cover and contents page of a school magazine. It needs to feature a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus text (captions, headlines etc) I have to use DTP and an image manipulation program.

I have interpreted this brief as a magazine aimed at Sixth Form as i am going to do the main story on exam results.

The magazine will go out around mid November.

Sixth Form's interests include: Driving Schools, Prom, Common Rooms.

Interesting events/issues that have happened or are going to happen: Harvest, Jeans for Genes Day, Exam Results, Sixth Form entertainment, Dress Code-what we want to wear.

Photographs that would have an impact and relate to the above events/issues of a student in medium close up would have to be several photographs of students wearing what they think is suitable for Sixth Form as this would reflect on what we are supposed to wear for Sixth Form, a photograph with a student looking at their exam results with shocked/surprised faces in mid close-up with a few students in the background close together with different facial expressions.

My lead would be a mid close-up of a student holding their exam results in their hands looking shocked on the front cover with a big standing out headline and medium sized captions and the colour theme will make Sixth Form students and possibly teachers want to pick up the magazine and read it.

The style of my magazine that i will use will be traditional.

Firstly i will research the front covers of school magazines to help me to get an idea of the design and layout of how i would like my front cover to look. For example: the positioning and camera angles of the photographs, font, size and colour of text, colour theme etc.

Following this, i will analyse the front covers to say what is good about certain areas and what is not quite so good about other areas.

Secondly, i will research and analyse contents pages of school magazines to help me to create my own contents page.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate, minimum of four images per candidate.