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MS2 Production ProcessesPreparation for production

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Learning outcomes To have explored and researched lifestyle magazine formats To have a blog to upload reasearch

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What is a lifestyle magazine? Use FHM (Nov 2013) and Cosmopolitan (Nov

2013) as examples.

Key terms: Representation (Who? What? Why? How?) Ideology (reinforcing or challenging hegemonic values?) Prescribing a lifestyle? Progressive or regressive?

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Annotate an example using media language. Focus – Audience and representation

Comment on image, language/mode of address, fonts, colour, anchorage

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+Create a blog…in 5 mins!

Go to Blogger.com

If you have a Gmail, log in. If not, create one.

Name your blog with your own name and subject, eg Mike Handley’s Media Blog.

Set the domain name as the same.

Choose a theme/style (you can change this later.

Start blogging!

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Using examples of double page spreads from lifestyle magazines, explore how the text communicates meaning. Use the framework from the previous task.

Search – “[magazine title] double page”

Blog your findings

Make a note of key points on the blog citing the publication and date. Detail how the text uses both image and text to convey meaning.

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Plenary: Pre-production brief You will produce TWO front pages for a new lifestyle

magazine. You will be expected to use original photography,

appropriate modes of address and themes relevant to the lifestyle

DST task – Continue to blog research and decide on a lifestyle for your magazine for next lesson.