Dear future students of A level media ,thank you for reading. This letter is about the media course you plan to attend while in Guernsey. Thank you. The letter should give you the information you need about the course and my own opinion.

Taking A level media in sixth form taught me numerous new abilities. For example, I learnt how to utilise Photoshop and other tools to make DSLR shots tell a narrative. For example, I utilised colour gradients and palettes to emphasise particular portions of the picture to convey deeper connotations. When I utilise the programme later, I’ll use a camera to shoot the photographs I’ll use in the software, along with other important camera settings.

The course taught skills including communication, time management, organisation, and cooperation. These skills are adaptable. To turn in work on time and keep up with it, I needed time management skills. Developing this talent has helped me much in my studies of media and other areas. Our lesson also covered photoshop and how to make an image more appealing and conventional/ general so that people reading the magazine know it’s about hip-hop! Learning to utilise the dodge tool, for example, improved my magazine photographs. I utilised this talent often to make my model’s eyes pop and shine, making her seem bright and optimistic to everyone who viewed the photo. This class taught us three things. We learnt how to use Indesign to design a product using a photoshop picture. InDesign will be used to create a music magazine with a front cover, contents page, and double-page spread. After the first year, you will be able to create a stunning magazine using this programme. Finally, how to generate contact sheets with Adobe Bridge is an easy approach to conserve space while displaying your work online. Each term, you’ll learn the tools you’ll need to create and edit your work. This will aid your technical production and skill transfer.

Using Photoshop, InDesign, and Adobe Bridge has been incredibly beneficial. In the first year, you will study about AIDE (attention, interest, design, and action), mise en scene, story, star image, representation, and audience. I’ve also learnt how to utilise these terminology in my music magazine and blog. Adobe Indesign, one of the technologies we use to create course material, is simple to learn. Making fantastic media and using all the other skills they gain while working on their projects may be done with the help of a few tutorial videos on YouTube. The layout of the page and how photographs are framed are all examples of how creative design can be employed in a blog post. This may effect how an examiner views your work and perhaps your total mark. This school year, my class created a music magazine from start, with no pre-written articles or photos. There are several ways to create sixth-form media studies course content depending on where you reside in the UK.

Good luck with your next two years. My greatest recommendation is to keep up with your work since the sixth-form course never slows down for anyone.

My name is Jacob Jansma, and here is riptide, my music magazine for 2021. The magazine is centred on the fast-growing emo-rap genre.

My publication is well-designed and focused on interacting with readers, expressing their thoughts, and promoting upcoming underground artists. These elements distinguish it from other music and general publications.

Researchers used YouGov, an online platform, to find out who was listening, their ages, preferred bands, and interests. I produced a magazine based on this information that would appeal to my target group. For example, employing internet analytics has helped me increase the quality of my magazine by 15%. Juice WRLD is more popular among millennials than among other age groups. The same may be said for other genre artists. Using this information, I may use colour plates and cultural traditions to make the magazine more appealing to millennials .

Because they’ve had success with magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair, I’d definitely choose Conde Nast as my distributor. This will help my magazine’s brand get recognition. Furthermore, among the brands Conde Nast already produces, there are few music publications, which advantages ‘RipTide.’ Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Wired, and other Conde Nast journals have grown into important media entities.

Because we promote their viewpoints on modern culture and other themes common to the niche demographic I chose, the designated audience will choose my magazine. As an example, we have large giveaways for concerts and record products by their favourite musicians, such as tickets to the next rolling loud concert, which is a significant event in America every year based on a grace yates song. We also talk to our fans to gain their feedback on the magazine and to come up with new and creative ways to promote our brand via media like information, entertainment, personal identity, and social interaction. Aside from that, the magazine’s style entices customers from this demographic to purchase our products.

I chose a Bose headphone commercial and a concert flier for the blog entry above. Using these well-chosen advertisements will assist my magazine in promoting music and in informing my readers about products and where they can be purchased. This will also aid with the promotion of my magazine via sponsorships such as the No Jumper and Narduar talk shows, as well as concerts and festivals such as Rolling Loud, Glastonbury, and Reading. Another strategy to promote our brand is to promote bigger companies such as Bose headphones and clothing brands such as RIPNDIP, Santa Cruz, and others.

For my magazine, I’m looking for online publishers/advertisers. Making social media profiles, items, and giving out freebies are all things I do. Using the internet to develop an online edition of our magazine will also assist us in attracting readers and other types of attention from across the world.

This is my Emaze post on the conventions of the media industry. I have and noted down key conventions and explained them in detail with examples.

In this task give some album magazine covers to choose from. Then to annotate and analysis who the target audience would be for the magazine cover. I chose a rolling stones magazine with a E street song writer called Bruce Springfield. We had to try to denote what kind of people would buy this magazine, such as their age, hobbies and/or gender. Then write a brief psychographic on the reader and our generation abbreviation of them. I then wrote about the font, colours and image.

From this task I will be able to get a better understanding of a audience and how to advertise to them specifically in my magazine. By using font,  colours and designs to draw them in and the more captions to add their interest to carry on reading.

I am looking forward to studying media studies for the next two years because I already enjoy editing photos and videos in my own time and I will be able to learn more about editing in the years to come. As well as that i am looking forward to learning a large array of skills which will help me in the future such as Photoshop and how to advertise products to the general public.

Things I am looking forward to:

• Using different techniques to film, take photos and edit them in multiple locations and get the outcome I was looking for.

• Gain skills on how to write and post blogs to my page.

• Learning new ways of editing and presenting a video in a professional manner and presentation.

My creative skills:

For one of my GCSE’s I studied Theatrical lighting which involved many different skills , like me creating cue sheets and designs for small performances and shows using my own ideas. I have two years experience working in lighting of which I was self taught and was successful in my ambitions.

My technical skills:

I have experience using many different editing and Photoshop software’s such as final cut pro and adobe premiere pro. Although I still want to learn more skills to fine tune my abilities in editing and Photoshop

My transferable skills:

I lack transferable skills as I have gone through any internships involving editing sadly due to Covid-19. But I would like to bounce back due my time at sixth form as I still have much to learn and look forward to my goals.

On my social media hub, I have media such as  Spotify for music and Soundcloud, and for entertainment I have made examples such as Instagram, Tik tok, Facebook , Twitter and Youtube.  For streaming networks  I have put Netflix , Sky and Freeview for watching shows and learning.

Social media app are informative and entertaining.  For example Twitter, Instagram and Tik tok these three mainly help me find my identity as a person and inspire me to do hobbies and social activity  and strive to complete goal I have set out for myself. I think that the most important part of social media for me is the fact that you can see other people success in their lives and say why not to all the doubt people build up.

Music is a big part of my life, any time I can listen to music I do. It also helps me find my identity and personality as i only tend to listen the lyrics I can relate to. i think this is a very important part in everyone’s lives as it has been proven that music effect the human and other animal brain in a very crucial way that we cant explain.  And  yet everyone not matter what creed, religion or up bringing can relate to music in some way as it is such a board range their is always something fundamentally impacting to a person in music. For listening to music Spotify, Soundcloud, Amazon music and i Tunes.

For social uses and messaging I use Snap chat, What-app, Instagram  for messages and social connections. Which me like many other people think that it’s a vital part of society and individuals life and well being.

The knowledge I have gained for this task will help me when making um music magazine as it has how me the key parts and techniques that can help me to convey my narrative to the audience. Some  of the main techniques include ensuring that the audience are informed of using social medias and advertisements explaining what the magazine is about, and what is happening to keep them entertained and use social media to promote themselves and relate to their personal identity.