You Tube Magazine Article



For your GCSE coursework next year you will be given a brief to create a magazine targeted at a specific target audience. This is worth 30% of your GCSE grade and so you need to be ready to showcase your layout, photography and journalistic skills. This task will give you the opportunity to practise these essential Media Studies skills.

 This term, you have been learning about how You Tubers make a profit from their audiences and analysing their appeal to target audiences. You are going to use this knowledge to create a magazine article about your own original You Tube star. The article needs to be an interview or feature about your imaginary star which would be read by their subscribers.

 Magazines are aware of the appeal to You Tube and they would include these kinds of features for their readers. It would be a selling point of their magazine.

Task: Create a magazine feature article about a fictional YouTuber. Your article will be for a double page spread in a magazine targetted at a 14-18-year-old audience.

  • Write a 400 word article
  • Draw a flat plan (fold an A4 paper in half and design the layout)
  • Create the double page spread using Photoshop
You will need to include the following conventions (see the example image above for inspiration):

  • Title
  • By-line
  • Image
  • Caption
  • Copy
  • Graphics
  • Page Branding
  • Page Numbers

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