Ideology-Ideology is the ideas, views or ethics behind a piece of media. The ideology of the piece of media is important because it dictates how the media is presented based on its politics and views.
For my prelim task, I must present a newsletter with an ideology in mind as the newsletter must reflect my ideology. Part of my ideology will be that Deyes is a modern school and that it utilises up to date tachnology and learning resources. To show this I will include images of students using this resources, such as the schools iPads. I can also show this by using modern looking text.
Another part of my iodeology is that, academically the school caters to everyone, and pushes all students to reach there maximum, not just focusing on the best. I can show this through images by showing a teacher aidning a struggling student, which also show that the teahers are supportive and make the students their first priorty, which is another part of my ideology. Also, in all of my images, any students will be in proper uniform to showcase the schools puntuality.
I will also show the schools high standard of educational achievment showing the schools by showing the schools GCSE results and stats and figures about the schools educational achievment. However I will also make sure that this part of the ideology dosen't clas with the 'taking all students into account' part of the ideologay.
Another key part of my ideology, that I want to present, is a sense of community within the school by showing sixth formers and lower down students in the school co-operating
Finally I will showcase the schools attention to its specialist subject, science, by showing images of students performing a science experiment. This can also show the schools health and safety principles, as the students could be wearing the science lab equipment such as safety goggles and lab coats.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Magazine Cover Reaserch
A key part of a music magazine is its genre, as this determines the magazines target audience, which in turn determines everything from the magazines presentation to the focus of its articles. Therefore I will analyse serveral extracts from various diffrent music magazines of diffrent genres.
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This is the cover for the magazine 'Kerrang!'. The front cover contains a reasonable ammount of information about the inside contents but without being cluttered. The cover has a plain white background with the image of the featured band taking up the majority of the cover. The other articles in the magazine are listed along the bottom and side. Due to this it appears that thisnmagazine is more focused on contents than asthetics.
This cover is for the Rolling Stones which in terms of genre is broader than kerrang. Similar to kerrangs cover, there is no background image, but what is most striking about this cover is that 90% of the page is taken up by the image of the featured artist, Rihanna, so musch so that the image is even covering up part of the magazines title. The other featured articles are listed down the side however they are not accompanied by pictures, as if not to draw away from the main image. Because of how dominant the image is over the rest of the cover, its safe to assume that the magazine is banking on the regognisability of the featured artist, which may be due to Rolling Stones target audience.
This cover for NME (which focuses on the indie rock genre) finds itself inbetween kerreng and Rolling Stone in terms of how tidily the content is laid out. The main image, again takes priority (which we can now assume is a convention of all music magazines) with other articles scattered around and the only other pictures tucked away in the top right corner as well as a lone small plug in the top left corner, implying that while these do have a place on the front cover, they should in no way take away from the main image. The magazine name, main title and sub-titles are all conviniently coulor coded in red, blue and yellow making the front cover easier to glance over.
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This is the cover for the magazine 'Kerrang!'. The front cover contains a reasonable ammount of information about the inside contents but without being cluttered. The cover has a plain white background with the image of the featured band taking up the majority of the cover. The other articles in the magazine are listed along the bottom and side. Due to this it appears that thisnmagazine is more focused on contents than asthetics.
This cover is for the Rolling Stones which in terms of genre is broader than kerrang. Similar to kerrangs cover, there is no background image, but what is most striking about this cover is that 90% of the page is taken up by the image of the featured artist, Rihanna, so musch so that the image is even covering up part of the magazines title. The other featured articles are listed down the side however they are not accompanied by pictures, as if not to draw away from the main image. Because of how dominant the image is over the rest of the cover, its safe to assume that the magazine is banking on the regognisability of the featured artist, which may be due to Rolling Stones target audience.
This cover for NME (which focuses on the indie rock genre) finds itself inbetween kerreng and Rolling Stone in terms of how tidily the content is laid out. The main image, again takes priority (which we can now assume is a convention of all music magazines) with other articles scattered around and the only other pictures tucked away in the top right corner as well as a lone small plug in the top left corner, implying that while these do have a place on the front cover, they should in no way take away from the main image. The magazine name, main title and sub-titles are all conviniently coulor coded in red, blue and yellow making the front cover easier to glance over.
Questonnaire link
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