In this post you will find all the information you need to take you through the first half-term. You may wish to bookmark it, so you can use it as a checklist and get the highest possible grade with the least amount of stress...
Dates and deadlines
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How to get an ‘A’ in component three
- Use media language to demonstrate intertextuality and/or generic hybridity
- Convey a complex representation of a social group using media language
- Subvert and challenge typical representational stereotypes
- Present an ideological context typical to an independent music label
- Create a magazine that demonstrates clear stylistic, thematic and ideological links to your music video
The project brief
- A cross-media production for a new artist or band in a genre (or sub-genre/ hybrid) of your choice.
- Create an original music video and associated print material to promote the same artist or band.
- You should create a cross-media production for an established record label (such as Columbia or Parlophone) that is owned by a major conglomerate targeting a mainstream audience of 30-49 year old people with an interest in your chosen genre of music.
The magazine project
- Create a front cover and double page feature article for a new music magazine to promote your artist or band to the target audience.
- Length: 3 pages
Minimum requirements
Your print production must be 3 pages in length, including at least 4 original images in total
Front cover
- Original title and masthead for the magazine; strapline
- Cover price and barcode
- Main cover image of the band or artist to establish their identity
- Main cover line relating to the artist or band plus at least 2 further cover lines
Double page spread
- An interview with the artist or band (or extract), approximately 300 words, to promote the new artist or band
- Headline and stand-first, sub-headings, columns
- One main image and at least 2 smaller/ minor images (all original and different from the images on the cover)
- Representations of at least one specific social group
- Pull quotes and/ or sidebar
Failure to meet any of the minimum requirements will result in a significantly lower mark...
Examples of professional, commercial magazines
- Codes and conventions – changes over time?
- Layout and design
- Composition - positioning of masthead/headlines, cover lines, images, columns
- Font size, type, colour
- Images/photographs - shot type, angle, focus
- Mise-en-scene – colour, lighting, location, costume/dress, hair/make-up
- Graphics, logos
- Language – headline, sub-headings, captions – mode of address
- Copy
- Anchorage of images and text
- Elements of narrative