Task+List

This page will list any work you're expected to complete as part of your assessment for Media Studies: Each page will need to be prepared in a Word document and include a draft layout when you present your final page. If writing articles be sure to cover as many of the 5 Ws and H that you can. Ensure photos are good quality and represent as many different students at ESC as possible. ||  || You must also have completed one of the 'optional tasks' from the list below. Keep working on your magazine pages too! ||  || Keep working on your magazine pages too! ||  || Ms Shanahan will spend this weekend doing the final proof read. ||  ||
 * Date || Summary of Task ||  ||
 * 11/10 || By the end of this week you must decide which pages you will be responsible for in the school magazine. The minimum requirement is 3 pages (3 full pages or 6 1/2 pages).[[file:School Magazine 2010 Layout.docx]]
 * 18/10 || By the end of this week you must have submitted your 'mock' magazine cover for assessment. //(Using all the 'tricks of the trade" create your own cover for a fictional magazine. Be sure to include interests that your target audience will want in 'their' magazine and choose cover pictures and text based on your magazine's purpose.)//
 * 25/10 || By the end of this week you must have submitted all your Donnie Darko work for assessment.
 * 1/11 || Keep working on your magazine pages as well as submitting one of the 'optional tasks' from the list below. ||  ||
 * 8/11 || Keep working on your magazine pages. ||  ||
 * 15/11 || EDITING TIME - We need to spend this week editing our own and each others' pages. Our aim is NO spelling or grammatical mistakes!
 * 22/11 || FINAL TOUCHES TO MAGAZINE and your last 'optional task' due. ||  ||
 * 29/11 || Exam revision and Exam ||  ||
 * 6/12 || PARTY!!!! ||  ||
 * OPTIONAL TASKS - Choose 3 of the following to submit as part of your assessment for Media Studies this semester. **
 * Any 3 will do. **
 * Any 3 will do. **

1. Prepare a letter for distribution to local businesses asking for sponsorship for colour pages of the College magazine. 2. Compare a hard copy of a magazine to its online version. Note the target audience of both, the interests included in both - are there similarities, differences, surprises? Which do you prefer and why? 3. Mag Appeal Covers - Complete Exercise 1, questions a - f, on page 5 of Visual Texts (purple and green book available from Ms Shanahan). 4. Choose a media related topic we have not covered so far this semester. Create a teaching/learning tool about this topic. 5. Eye Catching Ads - Complete Exercise 1 on page 7 of Visual Texts (purple and green book available from Ms Shanahan) 6. Visit this [|website] and watch how a magazine cover can be retouched. Once you have explored the site thoroughly write at least half a page discussing why you think the changes have been made and what the effect of those changes might be. 7. Play the mag match game by [|clicking here], printing off the pages and then matching each mag cover to its target audience. Be sure to explain your choices...that is, explain how the cover showed you who would be interested in it. 8. Investigate how our school magazine could become an online resource. How would you apporach such a task? What would you add/omit? Who would you include/involve to help you? 9.Work through this [|online] activity on creating a Girls magazine. 10.Watch the __Clickview Film (Designing a Magazine)__ and complete the associated worksheets available from Ms Shanahan.