GCSE Y10 Easter Homework

During the week beginning June 23rd, you will be sitting a one hour exam based on Magazine Fron covers. you will be given one hour to answer three questions about an unseen magazine cover.

For your homework could you answer the following questions about the following Magazine cover.

Remember to use key terminology and that you are expected to write an hour's worth of writing!

 

1.What two conventions have I used & Why?

Conventions are: Mix of content, Aspiration tone, Direct mode of address & model or celebrity on the front cover.

 

2.What are the effects of my Layout, Typography, Colour choice and Language Choice

Effect means what does it say to the audience. Essentially you need to talk about the connotations of all of these things.

Layout - Is it symmetrical (ordered and sophisticated) or asymmetrical (chaotic and youthful). What Balance does it have? (refer to your past work on balance)

Typography: Is is serif or sans serif? Does it cover hand writing?

Language: Have you use exlamatives (exclamation marks), alliteration (multiple words with the same letter), imperatives (a command) or a pun (a funny play on words)?

3.What issues of representation have I presented?

Issues are potential problems that can be seen by the representation that you have presented. 

 

 

 

 

GCSE 10 Homework

Representation -

Find an image of a lifestyle magazine front cover on google. Add the image to your blog and dicuss it in terms of representation of -

Class
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Sexuality
Religion

Not all of the representations may be evident, so if the representation is obviously not part of your chosen publications audience, do not attempt to cro-bar it in. For example, FHM is unlikely to contain religious representations.

Use evidence in terms of conventions and media language in your discussions. For example the font choice for the cover line on working in the city is in a Serif font, Serif fonts generally connote wealth and class, so the font choice is appropriate to the content of the magazine.

For Thursday 20th March

Mr Jackson's Class Homework

Answer the following questions relating to your magazine cover...

1.What two conventions have I used & Why?

Conventions are:  Mix of content, Aspiration tone, Direct mode of address & model or celebrity on the front cover.

2.What are the effects of my Layout, Typography, Colour choice and Language Choice

Effect means what does it say to the audience. Essentially you need to talk about the connotations of all of these things.

Layout - Is it symmetrical (ordered and sophisticated) or asymmetrical (chaotic and youthful). What Balance does it have? (refer to your past work on balance)

Typography: Is is serif or sans serif? Does it cover hand writing?

Language: Have you use exlamatives (exclamation marks), alliteration (multiple words with the same letter), imperatives (a command) or a pun (a funny play on words)?

3.What issues of representation have I presented?

Issues are potential problems that can be seen by the representation that you have presented.

DUE TUESDAY 11th MARCH

GCSE COURSEWORK LIST

Exam: Section A: Question 3

Discuss how people and lifestyles are represented in the extract.
Refer to stereotypes in your answer.
Use examples from the extract.

Year 10 GCSE Homework:

Due Monday 24th February

Year 10 Homework - Colour Connotation

Find 3 Different Lifestyle magazines

Use the colour connotation wheel (on the Media Shared drive) to analyse the font colours and background of each magazine you pick. Post the analyses to your blog alongside a picture of the front cover your are examining.

The magazines can be specialist OR lifestyle magazines, with a mix of content. You may bring the magazines in for your next lesson, DO NOT buy Nuts, Loaded, Zoo or FHM or any other publication that would be inappropriate for school.

Due Thursday 13th Feb

YEAR 11 MOCK REVISION