Media Terminology

Today in class we learn't about new terminology which we can use to deconstruct a music magazine, these will help us with what to add to our magazine.


Anchoring - the intended meaning of a media text; what a text shows or represents
Audience - the group for whom a media is intended
Bias - prejudice in favour of or against something
Broadsheet - a serious paper aimed at professional, upmarket people, previously in a large format but now mostly compact
Connotation - meaning which is suggested by a media text
Deconstruct - to take part/analyse
Denotation - describing what you see in a media text
Editorial - a newspaper article written by or on behalf of the editor which gives an opinion on a topical behalf
Genre - group of texts that share certain characteristics; classification
Masthead - the title of a newspaper or magazine at the top of the front page
Narrative - the way in which a story is told in both fictional and non-fictional media texts
Objective - not influenced by personal feelings
Representation - how the media shows us the 'real world'
Sensationalism - exciting or shocking reportage which is intended to interest the public, without necessarily being accurate
Strapline - a few word sentence to accompany a brand or product
Structure - in newspapers, the way an article is organised
Subjective - based on or influenced by personal feelings or opinions
Tabloid - a compact paper, designed to appeal to a mass audience
Text - any media product (eg. advert, photo, film, video game, web page...) or piece of writing
Values and ideologies - systems of beliefs which determine how power relations are organised within a society

Evaluation of preliminary task

This is my college front cover. In this blog I have used screen grabs to show the simple elements I have used to create my front cover. I have used pugs to show different articles from my cover and I have used a logo to pull my magazine together making it look more realistic.

Contents page

Here is the design I have created for my contents page, it is simple and effective and shows clearly where everything is to go. 

Final collage magazine on adobe elements 11

This is my final design for my college front cover. I do like it and believe it looks great for my first time using adobe elements 11.

Draft for my college magazine

This is the draft for my college magazine it is a simple daft with images and writing where I would like everything to go on my magazine.

Uploading images using flicker

Here is a screen grab of my flickr page to show I have created and posted my 3 best images. 

Planning: Rejection of images

I have chosen not to use this image as the model's glasses had changed colour but also the sun was in her face which made the image look different and not front cover worthy. 

This image will not be chosen as it is fuzzy and the model had moved her face.