A-grade Magazine Coursework looks like this.

Certain students need to look again at elements of their coursework before the marks go to the examiner. If that's you, your teacher will have spoken to you about any missing elements you need to address and given you a NEXT STEPS sheet to complete. Use these examples of previous successful students to make sure your coursework gains all of the marks it deserves.

Deadline Day Final Instructions

Hand in your final portfolio by putting these three elements into your blue coursework folder. However, DO NOT THROW ANYTHING AWAY keep any draft work in your plastic folders.

1. Your final magazine extract - Front Cover, Double Page Spread and Contents Page.
2. Research and planning powerpoint.
3. Updated Evaluation (comment on your changes from the first draft to your final product and evaluate the impact of your changes).

Once you have completed your work and handed your folder in, you need to create a blog with the Blogger app via Google and upload your products as images.

Draft Magazine Evaluation

You need to answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. This is a very important part of this project.

• Answer each question in as much detail as possible. Add examples from all parts of your work.
• How effective was your research into similar magazines and relevant target audiences? What did you learn from your research into these two areas? In what ways did this shape the creation of your magazine?
• What creative decisions did you have to make at the different stages of your magazine production? How did your magazine change as your work progressed?
• How closely does your magazine follow the forms and conventions of existing magazines? Gives examples of real magazines you reference.
• How successful is your finished magazine? What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Once you have completed your evaluation. Print out a copy for your folder.

NEXT STEPS: Return to designing your magazine and complete your final version for the deadline.

DEADLINE = Thursday 17th November

Coursework schedule (Thursday 1st September - Friday 14th October)

Welcome back to Year 11. 

Now get ready for some hard work on your magazine coursework.

Thursday 1st September

Today you need to print out your magazine research and planning and put it in your coursework folder by the end of today's lesson.

Monday 5th September - Friday 14th October

Complete the following:

• Flatplans of cover, contents and double page
• Write an article or an interview for your double page
• Take suitable photos for all pages of your magazine (preferably all images will be original)
• Draft version of cover, contents and double page

Deadline for first draft cover, contents page and double page spread - Friday 14th October

Year 11 Target Audience Task

Go to the UK Tribes website.
Explore the website to help you research how to define Target Audience groups. Think about how this site may influence your own ideas about the Target Audience for your magazine product.

Task: Create a description of the Target Audience for your magazine product. Add this to your research powerpoint as a new slide. Can you include a description and images that would suit your target audience. You are trying to create a Target Audience Profile to show the kind of person who you imagine would buy your magazine.

Magazine - Research and Planning Task

Genre choices are:

• music 
• fashion
• sport

Today's work:

1. Decide on your genre
2. Research magazine titles within that genre. Make a list of existing titles. Remember, you can use some of the research you completed before the summer break. Simply add to this piece of work and present your ideas using your chosen software.
3. Collect images of as many different covers as you can. Group by title e.g. Vogue, Wonderland, iD (all fashion titles).
4. You may look at magazines across the international market, but be aware that they are not produced in the UK.

Unit B324: Production Portfolio in Media Studies

Unit B324: Production Portfolio in Media Studies

This is a controlled assessment unit, 25-30 hours, internally assessed and externally moderated.

120 marks, 30% of the total GCSE marks

Candidates can either work individually or in groups to produce a major practical production from

a selection of set briefs. 

Within this, each individual produces their own evidence of research and

planning alongside an individual evaluation of their finished product.

The Production Portfolio offers candidates the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in research, planning, production and evaluation and their understanding of the following media key concepts:

• audience
• institutions
• media language
• genre.

The brief:

An extract from a new magazine aimed at a specific audience, to include the front cover, contents page and a double-page spread article, using some original photography.

• If candidates are working in a group, each group member must produce at least one double-page spread article.