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Year 10 Session log: November
For October sessions, see left!
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Magazines
We learned some key magazine terminology today, such as cover lines, masthead and so on. Then students used their new knowledge to analyse a range of magazine covers, answering questions from a worksheet. I have sent home copies of the worksheet to students who missed this so they can complete it at home - the worksheet isn't available online. |
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Complete the next two sets of questions on the magazine worksheet. If you want to impress me, complete the last few questions on institution and audience as well - that'll take some research. |
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Magazines
The students were in charge today, arguing in groups about which magazine was the best in the country, considering audience, content, representation and so on. Sadly, most students had not taken the homework as seriously as they should have and only a few were well-prepared. The end result of the vote, however, was that Bliss was declared the country's best magazine. |
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Magazines
We continued our study of magzine audiences today, this time looking at magazines for boys. Students are getting very good at this now - the target audiences for Match and Four Four Two were instantly clear to everyone. We also discussed the difference between mass and niche audiences. |
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Magazines
We began exploring the way magazines communicate with their audiences from the news stands today. We compared Sugar, B and Company, magazines with similar content profiles, but different audiences, and this was quickly clear from their front covers and contents pages. Students immediately realised, for example, that a cover line referring to breast cancer could not be targeted at teenagers, while Sugar's approach to sex and relationships had a much more innocent touch than Company. |
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Prepare to stand up for your favourite magazine.
In next Thursday's class you will work in groups to vote for the best magazines in the UK. Each person in their group will have 3-4 minutes to argue that their favourite is the best, before the group votes.
- Bring magazine extracts and visual aids
- Discuss audiences and representations and why the magazine has popular appeal.
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Magazines: Representation
We began in controversial style by having everyone make a list of adjectives to describe men and women. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the young men and women in class chose to represent themselves - and their counterparts - in different ways. Working in pairs, students then produced collages depicting a particular representation of men or women, using pictures from magazines. |
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Magazines: who reads them?
Students discussed the different ways in which the front cover of a magazine helped to identify its target audience. This led on to a look at the top 40 magazine chart, and student identified the different genres they belonged to. It was interesting to realise that the two most popular genres are: TV listings (because everyone watches TV) and women's interests. |
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Homework: |
Complete the SAM Learning revision homework found at Media Studies / Audience / Magazines.
DUE: Thursday November 16
Bring in old magazines (to be cut up) for tomorrow's lesson. |
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Coursework A1: Magazines
We began by brainstorming the names of as many different magazines as students could come up with> They knew a lot, and were also able to sort them into particular genres such as lifestyle, entertainment, men's and so on.
Students then compared the front covers of three different magazines, noting similarities and differences. |
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Homework: |
Bring in a magazine front cover for next Thursday's lesson. Try to make it as CLEAN and original as possible! (ie PLEASE not 15 copies of NUTS and 15 copies of BLISS!)
Read the handout on the history of magazines and complete the timeline.
Read through all my feedback in your exercise book and complete any other work I have set.
DUE: Thursday Oct 10 |
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Coursework A1: Magazines
We are now beginning our first coursework assignment, and I began the session by explaining that 50% of the Media Studies GCSE grade is based on coursework. You can read more on the GCSE Coursework page.
Our first topic is magazines and we began by attempting to write a definition. In the end we agreed that they are paper publications that feature copy and images, targeted at specific audiences. They are published regularly and distributed through newsagents or subscription.
Students went on to agree key differences between newspapers and magazines, and we started to discuss magazines that Year 10 were familiar with. |
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