Year 9 Media Studies

You are writing an article for a magazine. Think about the features of articles from creative writing tasks in your English lessons. Here are some tips to make your copy pop. Start with an intriguing headline that stands out for your reader. It needs to refer clearly to your YouTube star. You need to have an informative and engaging strapline that compels readers to read on.  This is where you introduce your YouTube star explaining why they are worth interviewing in the first place. Include a couple of introductory paragraphs. Here you can describe how you meet up with your YouTuber and your first impressions of them. You need to use the correct language register as if you are a journalist writing about an original YouTuber (the one you have created before half term). Your language register must be appropriate to you target audience, so consider using an informal, chatty tone to engage your reader. Using literary devices such as rhetorical devices, repetition, alliterat...

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 t...