Year 9 Media Studies

Look at the typical artists who appeal to a teenage audience by looking at products designed specifically for that target audience. Click on the image above and look at how the BBC Radio One Teen Awards is being packaged to appeal to the 13-15 demographic.

PHOTOSHOP FAQ Where do I find it? In the start menu, select - all programmes - common programmes - adobe production premium - PhotoShop (64bit) How do I get started? In the upper left select - file - new What page size do I need? CD covers are SQUARE, alter the height and width to 120mm . Ensure the colour mode is 8bit and the background colour is white . How do I add an image? You should have been able to save your image from google. In the upper left select - file - open and locate the image you downloaded. The image will appear in a new tab, DO NOT PANIC, pull the tab down by pressing and holding the left mouse button until it appears in front of your white square tab, next press shift + v to drag and drop the image onto your white square tab The Image doesn't fill the square! Press ctrl + t , now press and hold shift , pinch the corner of the image and stretch it until it fills the space. Yo...

Digipak analysis taylor swift -1989 from chessromeo

How musicians are represented in a marketing campaign reflects something about their music genre and target audience. Here Ariana is represented as an artist who is beautiful, honest and yet with an innocent look. All of these traits are designed to appeal to the target audience and create a pop genre image.  Task: Look closely at this digipak and label the codes used to signify more about her work and her as an artist. Task: Pick 3 album covers from (from 3 different music genres). Copy them onto a Word document or PowerPoint. Annotate it in detail, based on the following: How are men and women or the genre itself represented? In a stereotypical or non-stereotypical way? Who is the target audience of each album? How is that audience attracted? Refer to Images, Colour, Font, Layout, Language Register. Task: Next, look at these different images of Taylor Swift and put them in order of how she her representation has changed over her time as an artist. ...

Analyse how reality is constructed: Representation of Teenagers in the media. Task: You are going to write up your findings in your book. There are questions here to help you structure your answer. Remember, you must write in paragraphs and discuss whether stereotypes are frequently used. Introduction: Explain a definition of stereotypes and why they are used by the media (you can refer to TV Drama as your examples). Comment on how frequently teenagers are stereotyped in TV Dramas and why you think this group is often stereotyped in soaps and TV Dramas at all. Paragraph one: Find an example of a TV Drama aimed at audiences with older viewers. How often are stereotypes used to portray teenagers? Why do older people believe these stereotypes to be true? Paragraph two: Find an example of a TV Drama aimed at younger audiences. How often are stereotypes used to portray the teenage characters that you enjoy watching? Why do you think stereotypes are used less frequently? You can c...