Preliminary Task

Today you are going to create the front cover for a new college magazine. Your front cover will include:

• a mid-shot of a student at the college
• a title for the magazine
• anchorage text
• puffs
• date

You will be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to manipulate your images and arrange the elements on your page.

Task 1 - Representation of Jennifer Lopez

Compare the way that J-Lo is represented on the front cover of these magazines.

Your response should be posted to your blog by the deadline.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY 25th SEPTEMBER

Introduction to Media Foundation Portfolio

Coursework is worth 50% of the final AS grade.

This is a coursework unit where you will produce two paired media artefacts. The chosen topic for this year will be music magazines. In your production work you will need to show progression from a pre-production task to a more fully realised piece.

The pre-production task involves you creating the front cover for a new college magazine including your own images. For those who have never studied media before this will help you to develop skills in media editing packages such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You will also develop knowledge and understanding of the format and layout of magazines. For those of you who have studied media before (and may have already become a magazine expert!) this will give you the chance to refresh your skills.

The final production will involve producing a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a new music publication. You are expected to use at least 4 original images in your work.

There is of course plenty of written work to be done alongside the project and this will take the form of a blog.