This document provides a checklist for students to improve their coursework submission for a magazine project. It outlines requirements in three key areas: planning and research, product development, and evaluation. For planning, it requires an analysis of existing magazines, audience research through questionnaires, and mock page designs. For the product, it specifies ensuring high quality images and page layouts that resemble a professional magazine. The evaluation must be a PowerPoint addressing questions about representing audiences, technologies learned, and meeting the project brief. Regular blog updates of progress are necessary to provide evidence to examiners.

1. City of Ely Community College
Media Studies Department
AS FoundationPortfolio
Courseworkre-submissionchecklist
Thislistisdesignedtohelpyouimprove onyourcourseworkgrade formyoumagazine project.For
manyof you,thiswill be a case of makingimprovementstowhatyousubmittedlastyear.
Planningand research
 Analysisof existingmedia– analyse a frontpage,double page spreadandcontentspage of
at leasttwo existingmagazineswhichtargetdifferentaudiences.Forexample,youmay
choose NMEand SmashHits.Annotate the examples,rememberingtouse media
terminology.Then evaluate how thisanalysiswill helpyourownproject – whichmagazine
will youlooktouse more featuresfrom?Why?
 Audience questionnaire andfeedback withevaluationsonhow this will helpyour final
project
 Audience profile:asa resultof yourquestionnaireandresearch,what specificaudienceare
youlookingtotarget?Thinkin termsof age, gender,interests,likesetc.How doyou planto
go aboutdoingthis?
 Photo-shoots: upload a selection of images to the blog which you have taken, which ones
are mosteffective?Whyhave youdiscardedcertainimages? Justifyyourselections.
 Mock-ups of pages: show a selection of different designs for each page, again evaluating
whichonesare most effective andwhy.
Product
 Ensure you carefully construct the mise-en-scene of your images: they must be appropriate
to a musicmagazine of your genre.
 Editthemcarefullyandensure noimagesare leftpixelated
 Continually ask yourself – does my product look as close as possible to a professional
magazine?If not,whatcan I doto improve?
 Make regular blog postings, updating your progress and the extent to which you are meeting
your audience needs.
Evaluation
 Evaluation mustbe in PowerPointformat
 Answerthe evaluationquestions indetail
 Include screenshotsandvisual examplesof yourworktoillustrate youranswers
 Evaluate and analyse the extent to which you have met your brief – how successfully have
youmanagedto target a specificaudience andcaterfor theirneeds?

2. City of Ely Community College
Media Studies Department
Evaluationquestions:
 In whatwaysdoesyour mediaproduct use,developorchallenge formsandconventionsof
real mediaproducts?
 How doesyourmediaproductrepresentparticularsocial groups?
 What kindof mediainstitutionmightdistribute yourmediaproductandwhy?
 Who wouldbe the audience foryourmedia product?
 How didyouattract/addressyouraudience?
 What have youlearntabout technologiesfromthe processof constructingthisproduct?
 Lookingback at yourpreliminarytask,whatdoyoufeel youhave learntinthe progression
fromit to the full product?
Pointsto remember:
MAKE SURE EVERYTHING YOU DO IS ON THE BLOG SO THE EXAMINER CANSEE EVIDENCE OF YOUR
WORK AT ALL THREE STAGES
IT IS VITAL TO BLOG YOUR PORGRESS AT REGULAR STAGES
INCLUDE LOTS OFIMAGES TO MAKE YOURWORK VISUALLYSTRONG – this appliesthroughout,not
simplyto your finishedproduct.
REMEMBER TO INCLUDE THE PRELIMINARYTASK
ANYQUESTIONS – ASK!
GOOD LUCK 