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GQ - Audience & Industries blog tasks

  Audience Look through the GQ Media Kit and answer the following questions:  1) How does the media kit introduction describe GQ? 2) What does the media kit suggest about masculinity?  3) Pick out three statistics from the data on page 2 and explain what they suggest about the GQ audience. 4) Look at page 3 - brand highlights. What special editions do GQ run and what do these suggest about the GQ audience? 5) Still on page 3, what does the video and social series section suggest about how magazine audiences are changing?  Media Magazine feature: GQ Go to our Media Magazine archive and read the article on GQ (MM82 - page 12). Answer the following questions: 1) What are the elements that go into choosing a cover stars for GQ?  2) How is the magazine constructed to serve the target audience?  3) What does the article suggest about GQ's advertisers and sponsorships - and what in turn does this tell us about the GQ audience?  4) What is GQ Hype - and how ...

Magazine front cover - Learner response

  1) Add your finished magazine cover as a JPEG image. 2) Type up your feedback from your teacher. If you've received this by email, you can copy and paste it across - WWW and EBI . You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to. 3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the strengths of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover conventions and the media language techniques you have used to communicate with your audience (e.g. mise-en-scene, camera shot etc.) Notice the focus on narrative in the mark scheme for Media language. 4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher and, if required, move up a level? 5) What would be one piece of advice you would give a student about to start the same magazine cover project you have just completed? 

Advertising & Marketing assessment: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). For the EBI (write down each bullet point for each question) 2) Read the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully (find this on your class Google Classroom). Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. 3) Look at your answer and the mark scheme for Question 1 (Diamonds advert unseen text). List three examples of media terminology or theory that you could have included in your answer. 4) Look at your answer and the mark scheme for Question 2. What aspects of the cultural and historical context for the Score hair cream advert do you need to revise or develop in future? 5) Now look over your mark, comments and the mark scheme for Question 3 - the 9-mark question on Sephora 'Black Beauty is Beauty'. List any postcolonial terminology you could have added to your answer here and link this to a moment ...

GQ - Language & Representation blog tasks

  Language: Media factsheet Complete the following tasks using Media Factsheet 252 - The Codes and Conventions of Print Magazines available in our Media Factsheet archive here . Answer the following questions: 1) What are the different magazine genres highlighted on page 2 and how do they link to our magazine CSPs? 2) Look at the section on GQ on page 2. How do they suggest that GQ targets its audience? 3) What does the factsheet say about GQ cover stars? 4) Pick out five of the key conventions of magazine front covers and explain what they communicate to an audience. 5) What is a magazine’s ‘house style’? How would you describe GQ’s house style?  Extension tasks: Look at the final pages of the magazine factsheet that focus on creating magazine pages for coursework. What can you take from this to help future coursework projects?  Language: CSP analysis Use your annotated CSP pages to help answer the following questions. You can find an annotated copy of the GQ pages here ...