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Statement of Intent

Statement of Intent How do you intend to use the four areas of the media theoretical framework to communicate meaning and meet the requirements of your chosen brief? For my coursework, I am going to create ‘Diverse Magazine’, an entertainment magazine for fun-loving 16-24 year olds. I have decided to name it ‘Diverse’ because the content that will be included in the magazine will be for everyone, ranging from film and TV, to celebrity, news and music. In order to cater for my audience of fun-loving 16-24 year olds, I intend to use relaxed, informal language in my articles and headlines, photos and images that are positive and light-hearted, and lots of colour throughout the magazine and website. As this is an entertainment magazine, I will be using codes and conventions in order to appeal to my target audience. For example, the tagline of my magazine will be ‘Entertainment news for everyone.’, reflecting the name of the magazine and its intentions. The images and cover lines use...

Coursework Brief

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Website

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Planning Monday 25th March L/O: To plan effective and creative content for a specific audience Three alternative titles for a new entertainment magazine relating to your sub-genre and include notes on possible design styles for the masthead    Overview of your website - what values will it stand for/how will it be represented/what sort of content will it include/how will it target the TA? Content will include any features in the magazine but with extra features; e.g. a photoshoot for the front cover, but with unseen photos and bonus features, like a behind the scenes video of the shoot for example It will target the TA by being modern, with a more minimal look, as that it what is trendy at the moment. The articles featured will be of interest to them, for example, popular music and celebrity news tailored to them as 16-25 year olds. It will be represented in similar ways as the magazine, with a similar layout, colour scheme and fonts etc. I will try to ...

Magazine

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  Examples of Entertainment Magazines: Contents Pages of Entertainment Magazines:             Industry Research: Who are Hearst magazines? Hearst UK publishes 23 different brands and sells over 4 million magazines a month, along with 17 million UK digital users, and they reach over 22 million people through their social media platforms, in particular their Snapchat Discover platform. What UK magazines do Hearst publish? Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Digital Spy (Online Entertainment platform), Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Inside Soap, Mens Health, Womens Health, Real People, Red, Country Living, Good Living, Best, House Beautiful, Prima, Runner's World, Town & Country, & more What are their values and ideology? Hearst have, and always will entertain and provide escapism. As a business, they are committed to giving this to their audience on their terms - on any format, any device at a...