Preliminary Task

Produce a college magazine. Using the key concepts LIIAR and connotations and denotations to produce the college magazines Front Page and Contents Page.

• L - Language - the layout, font of the text, the text itself, images ( photographs), the process of photograph( black and white to colour), Masthead, puffs, the colour, the size of text and the colour of text.
• I - Institution - Wyke College, Wyke achieves the best results, more students from the east riding than Hull, academic College. Fun, exciting stories not to in depth and boring.
• I-Ideology- The message i want my magazine to give out, to all students. Respects other people, equal opportunities for all, and diversity for all students. Positive about Wyke College.
• A-Audience- The audience will be the Wyke college students and potential students as well as some members of staff ( roughly 15-19). The Gender spilt 64% females and 36% males at the college. There mainly from around the hull and surrounding area.
• R-Representation- The representation of the magazine would be to represent the college in a positive way, the photographs angles and connotations, stories ( including the Lead story) and how the photographs and stories represent the college.

Research and Planning

I must show evidence of . . .

• Research into similar products and a potential target audience.
• Organisation of models, locations, costumers or props.
• Work on layouts, drafting and mood boards.
• Evidence of time management. Use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation
  
  
  

Indroduction.

Matthew Russell

Introduction to Blog.

In the following Blogs I will be documenting my progress in AS Media coursework ( foundation Portfolio - College Magazine). In the Foundation Portfolio Unit G321 I will design and produce the front page of a new school/college magazines, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close up plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. Additionally I will also produce mock ups of the layout of the contests page to demonstrate my grasp of image manipulation program (Photoshop/Fireworks) and DTP ( Microsoft Publisher). I will use http://www.blogger.com/ to document my progress, research and planning using my Blog.