http://kfree1.wix.

com/ascoursework
http://www.wix.com/support/main/html5/wix-editor

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

Use these tasks effectively to help construct your music magazine
Tasks

Location

Due

on Wix

Format/Digital
Technology

Success criteria - what makes a successful piece of coursework?

Research

Bullet points on Wix

Weds

Look at a previous students coursework (college/music magazines and blog).

Sub-menu

ne?
17th

Create a list identifying their strengths and weaknesses.

Septe

http://jodiesawbridgemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-first-task-we-did-was-

mber

research.html
http://nicoleharman.blogspot.co.uk/
Production schedule for music magazine including all R&P task, photo shoots,

Planning

prelim task, editing, all 3 music magazine products, evaluation etc. Include

Sub-menu

EVERYTHING

Mind map/s to demonstrate initial ideas and music magazine genres

Planning

Do

myHomework Student
Planner. (iOS, Android,
Windows and online) Add
the screen grabs to your
website from your phone

Weds

Prezi

Weds

17th
Septe
mber

Extension task

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You can do as many mind maps as you like to help with an aspect of planning your

https://www.examtime.com/

magazine.
Forms and conventions research Youll need to understand key features of

Research

magazine layouts. Label up an exemplar magazine page, making a list of key

Sub-menu

forms and conventions of a magazine. Be sure to write how this information is

relevant to your magazine production.
http://jodiesawbridgemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/magazine-layout.html
Research on chosen genre (e.g. electronic music magazines)
Identify key forms and conventions of your chosen genre, for the front cover,

(https://prezi.com/support/)
or examtime

Research
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contents page and double page spread be sure to include the following:
Layout
Images (subject/model) clothing, body language, facial expressions,

Word document with

labelled image and list
uploaded to scribd
Emaze presentation
Powerpoint and uploaded to
slideshare
Or anything else you fancy

24th
Septe
mber
Weds
24th
Septe
mber

Bullet points on Wix

Bullet points on Emaze
presentation
Bullet points on Powerpoint
and uploaded to slideshare
Or anything else you fancy

Weds

Written in Wix or Word

(uploaded to scribd) or voice
recording. (Can upload mp3
direct to Wix)

Weds

24th
Septe
mber

props, Lighting etc

Fonts (choice, size, position)
Colours
Backgrounds
Features
Style of language
Proposal of idea, using all the research you have completed so create a proposal
considering
Inspiration

Planning
Sub-menu

1st
Octob

 Title

er
Or anything else you fancy

Target Audience
Images
Layout
Anything else you wish to include
3 textual analysis of music magazine front covers from appropriate genre.

Research

Complete a full written textual analysis (analysing connotations etc.) Remember

Sub-menu

to take photos of real magazines, not from versions on the internet

Written in Wix or Word

(uploaded to scribd) include
the image.

1
1st
Oct

Extension task
To complete more, up to 5
2
3

8th
Oct

3 textual analysis of music magazine contents pages from appropriate genre.

Research

Annotations including layout and textual analysis comments. Remember to take

Sub-menu

photos of real magazines, not from versions on the internet

Extension task
To write as full essays rather than notations and/or to complete more, up to 5

3 textual analysis of music magazine double page spreads, from appropriate

Research

genre. Annotations including layout and textual analysis comments. Remember to

Sub-menu

Annotations around image in

Word (uploaded to scribd)
Prezi
Emaze
Powerpoint and shared
through slideshare
Or written in Wix or Word
and uploaded to scribd,
include the image.

Weds

Annotations around image in

Word (uploaded to scribd)

Weds

8th
Octob
er

8th

take photos of real magazines, not from versions on the internet

Extension task
To write as full essays rather than notations and/or to complete more, up to 5

Institutions research Look through existing magazines, find out who publishes
them, what titles do the publishing houses own and why.

Research
Sub-menu

Prezi
Emaze
Powerpoint and shared
through slideshare
Or written in Wix or Word
and uploaded to scribd,
include the image.

Octob

Written in Wix or anything

else you fancy.

Wed

er

15th

Extension task

Octob

Which publishing house do you think would be appropriate for your publication?

er

Mood board a collection of images to inspire your creativity

Extension task

Planning
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You can do as many as you like, you may wish to consider some the follow topics;
Images, layout, fonts, colour, artists, genre
Questionnaire Use this to help construct your music magazine. Could ask
questions to do with colour schemes, content, layout, pricing, articles etc

Pinterest
http://help.pinterest.com/en
/guide/all-about-pinterest

Wed
15th
Octob
er

Research
Sub-menu

Survey monkey
http://help.surveymonkey.co
m/categories/getting-started

Wed
15th
Octob
er

Questionnaire graphs and analysis specifying how the results will affect your
magazine

Research
Sub-menu

Survey monkey for results

and graphs then written
analysis in Wix

Weds
22nd
Octob
er

Primary research

Research
Sub-menu

Record the interviews on

Weds

Extension task
To carry out further primary research into target audience by recording brief
interviews with people and analysing responses.
Target Audience

Research
Sub-menu

Extension task

phone or direct through the

Mac then written analysis in
Wix

22nd

Emaze infographics template

Weds

Octob
er

22nd

Target audience profile and description

Octob
er

HALF TERM
2 x Draft layout options for front cover, contents and double page spread. Label

Planning

key elements and make a note of colour schemes etc.

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Draw and take a pic

http://sketchtoy.com/
Photoshop

Weds
5th
Nove
mber

Double page spread article plan

Planning

Include ideas on the article content as well as a first draft of the written material.

Sub-menu

Photo shoot plan/s for music magazine photographs (consider background,

Planning

props, who?, costume, lighting, shot type, body language

Sub-menu

Bullet points on Wix

Bullet points on Emaze
presentation
Bullet points on Powerpoint
and uploaded to slideshare
Prezi
Or anything else you fancy

Weds

Bullet points on Wix

Bullet points on Emaze
presentation
Bullet points on Powerpoint
and uploaded to slideshare
Prezi

Weds

5th
Nove
mber

5th
Nove
mber

Or anything else you fancy

ALL RESEARCH AND PLANNING MUST BE COMPLETED BY

MONDAY 10TH NOVEMBER
BLOG ENTRIES
Your blog must document your journey and decisions made across the construction process of your coursework. Although it is a little like a
diary it shouldn't be "today I did this then I did this". Instead you should reflect upon what you are doing.
Tasks

Digital Technology

Introduction to music magazine project and initial ideas and reactions

*Writing straight into Wix is

easiest for most blog entries.

Due

These are
ongoing

If you would like to do

and

something different you can.

entries

But keep it simple, e.g

should be

recording some voice notes

made on

into your phone, then

a weekly

uploading mp3 to your blog.

basis. You
must keep
up to date
with
them.

Any developments/inspiration of your idea for music magazine

Done?

Introduction and initial thoughts on preliminary task

Introduction and thoughts on Photoshop lesson
Development of preliminary task including screen grabs and reflections
Any more thoughts on using Photoshop
All the photographs you have taken

In Wix use add then gallery

to display pics

Assessment and reflections on how the photo-shoot went and the quality of the photos.

Development of front cover including screen grabs and reflections (multiple entries across the

Write into Wix, with pics

construction including references to; font selection, colour schemes, layout choices, images etc)
Peer assessment of front cover and your reflections on those comments

Use the comments function

in the bottom of the blog in
Wix

Development of contents page including screen grabs and reflections (multiple entries across

Write into Wix, with pics

the construction including references to; font selection, colour schemes, layout choices, images
etc)
Peer assessment of contents page and your reflections on those comments

Use the comments function

in the bottom of the blog in
Wix

Development of double page spread including screen grabs and reflections (multiple entries

Write into Wix, with pics

across the construction including references to; font selection, colour schemes, layout choices,
images etc)
Peer assessment of double page spread and your reflections on those comments

Use the comments function

in the bottom of the blog in

Wix

ALL BLOG ENTRIES MUST BE COMPLETED BY WEDNESDAY 25TH

FEBRUARY
PRELIMINARY TASK
Task

Technology

Due

School magazine forms and conventions research

Bullet points on Wix

Tues 7th

front cover

October

http://jodiesawbridgemedia.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2013-09-18T02:01:0007:00&max-results=7&start=21&by-date=false
contents page
http://jodiesawbridgemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/conventions-of-magazine-contentspage.html
All photos

Finished front cover and mock-up of contents page

In Wix use add then gallery

Mon 13th

to display pics

October

Upload to http://issuu.com/

Weds 22nd

and embed in Wix

October

Use a combination of Prezi

Mon 3rd

and a video recording, either

Novembe

HALF TERM
Evaluation

Done?

direct into the Mac, or

https://www.youtube.com
or on your phone are
probably the simplest

ALL PRELIMINARY TASKS MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY 3RD

NOVEMBER
MAGAZINE
Task

Technology

Due

Finished front cover of your music magazine

Upload to http://issuu.com/

Weds 17th

and embed in Wix as 1

December

magazine
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Tues 20th

Finished Contents page

January
HALF TERM
Weds 25th

Finished Double page spread

February

ALL CONSTRUCTION MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY 2ND MARCH

EVALUATION

Done?

Task

Technology

Due

Question 1 - Genre
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
Question 2 - Representation
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Podcast

Tues 10th

Question 3 - Institution
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Emaze

Question 4 - Audience
Who would be the audience for your media product?

Free choice

March
Prezi

Tues 17th
March
Tues 17th
March
Tues 24th
March

EASTER HOLIDAYS
Question 5 - Audience
How did you attract/address your audience?

Video

Question 6 - Technologies
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

youtube tagging

Question 7 - Preliminary task

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from
it to the full product?

Diagram

ALL EVALUATION QUESTIONS MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY 20TH

APRIL

Mon 13th
April
Tues 14th
April
Weds 15th
April

Done?