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MS2 Production Processes
Preparation for production

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Learning outcomes
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To have explored and researched lifestyle magazine formats
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To have a blog to upload reasearch

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 What
is a lifestyle magazine?
 Use FHM (Nov 2013) and Cosmopolitan (Nov 2013) as
examples.
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Key terms:
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Representation (Who? What? Why? How?)
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Ideology (reinforcing or challenging hegemonic values?)
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Prescribing a lifestyle?
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Progressive or regressive?

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Annotate an example using media language. Focus –
Audience and representation
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Comment on image, language/mode of address, fonts, colour,
anchorage

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Create a blog…in 5 mins!
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Go to Blogger.com
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If you have a Gmail, log in. If not, create one.
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Name your blog with your own name and subject, eg Mike
Handley’s Media Blog.
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Set the domain name as the same.
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Choose a theme/style (you can change this later.
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Start blogging!

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Let’s get blogging…
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Using examples of double page spreads from lifestyle magazines,
explore how the text communicates meaning. Use the framework
from the previous task.
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Search – “[magazine title] double page”
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Blog your findings
Make a note of key points on the blog citing the publication and
date. Detail how the text uses both image and text to convey
meaning.

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Plenary: Pre-production brief
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You will produce TWO front pages for a new lifestyle magazine.
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You will be expected to use original photography, appropriate modes
of address and themes relevant to the lifestyle
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DST task – Continue to blog research and decide on a lifestyle for
your magazine for next lesson.