My coursework will be used to assess my ability to use appropriate technical and creative skills. Therefore, when planning my work, I should consider the following key concepts:

LIIAR

Language - The specific terminology used to describe media studies.

Institution - An organisation or company that produces a media text.

Ideology - A system of beliefs or a dominant set of ideas that hold legal and moral values, represented by social groups or by individuals.

Audience - These are the consumers of media. A target audience is a specific group of people, wide or small, designed by the institution.

Representation - This is based upon how media texts represent society and its values back to us as the audience, including aspects such as stereotypes.

Within this particular piece of media coursework, I am required to produce two print artifacts from the following set brief, which involves work from two seperate tasks that will show my progression over the course.

Preliminary Exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP.

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