Wednesday, 30 September 2009

LIIAR- Key Concepts

Language- The termonoligy, Connontaion- this is the meaning we infer from what we see in front of us(the hidden meaning). Denotation-This is what you see in front of you, what is shown on the page or the screen.

Institution- Organisations (BBC), magazines/ newpapers (the sun). An instituton is anything that produces media.

Ideology- Represents the ideas about social groups and values. The system of beliefs that we share as a society. Moral values (right and wrong) Capitalist, Society/democracy.

Audience- The consumers of media, how the audience consumes media. A target audience

Representation- Representation of the British Society. It represents society back to us i.e values that represent our area.

The Brief

Preliminary Exercise: using DTP and an image manipluate program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriatly laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.