Media Studies- 1.

In our first two weeks of the AS Level Media Studies course we have been looking at analysing the presentation of various magazine covers. We studied the style of the magazine to work out its target audience based on colours, text and language. We learned how to describe the layout of a magazine front cover using technical vocabulary e.g. masthead, dateline, selling line, coverline and model credit. We also looked at basic audience profiling. Finally, we began work on a magazine presentation in Powerpoint, we chose a magazine each and described it's target audience based on its press pack (found online at http://www.icpmedia.com/) and how the magazine attracted its target audience. I chose to work on a presentation on Kerrang! magazine, a weekly underground music scene magazine.