Key Concepts

In order to have a successful media production portfolio, I need to follow the 5 key concepts which are:

Language- Specific terminology for media texts.

Institution- An organisation, anything that produces a media text.

Ideology- System of beliefs we all share and media texts deliver their messages.

Audience- Consumers of media. How the audience consumes it and the target market.

Representation- Represent society back to us and its values.

The Brief

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 a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task- 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.