My AS Media Coursework

For my Media Foundation Portfolio I have chosen to follow the print brief, a music magazine cover, contents and feature spread, because I am interested in working in the music industry, and I think that it would be useful to develop my skills with prints because it provides a good starting point, from which I can move on to work better in the area of media production.

The brief I am working on is:

Print

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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.