Media Yr 10 21st Oct 2015

Self Assessment - Introduction To Media

Have you completed all the steps to success?

Check through your book and see if you can tick off all the skills and tasks on your steps to success sheet.

If you have completed all the tasks fill in the skills grid pupil response.

Double check you've completed ALL tasks; ask a partner to check!

If you have completed then log in to Media Edusites and continue your research on the four key concepts:

RAIL - Representation/Audience/Institutions/Language (Media Language - see your keyword booklet).

Thanks.

Mr Milligan

Representation - 14/10/15

Hello Yr 10 -


For those of you that have finished the previous tasks from last week set on your new blogs here is a new task:


Please do some research on 'Representation'.


Explain what Representation is in Media. 


Find a picture from a magazine online.  Use the questions from your representation triangles to analyse this picture/text.


Post your responses and the magazine article on your blog or a link to get to the picture/text/magazine article.


Good Luck!

Yr 10 Task 07/10/15

When looking at target audiences we must consider the groups that they can be categorized into.


This can include age, gender, social status, economic status, ethnicity, hobbies and interests e.t.c.


EXAMPLE:  If I was writing about the audience profile/target audience/typical buyer for the magazine on the right I might suggest the following:


The target audience of this magazine is boys between the age of 7 - 16.  The graphics and colours are bright, reds and blues which are masculine.  The pictures and graphics are cartoon like which would attract this younger audience when on the shelf of the supermarket or shop.  they would probably be from social grading C1 to D on the National Readership Scale below.  The target audience would be from a range of ethnicities and their main interests would be football/sport.

Look up the National Readership Survey and use this as a guide then
look at the products below and see if you can identify the target audience:

Who  is the target audience?

1.  Knitting Magazine...

Who is the target audience?

2.Music Magazine...

Who is the target audience?

3. Luxury Car...

Who is the target audience?

4. Gillette Razors....