Business Document Comparisons
Business Document Comparisons Document name Public council letter Thank you letter for participating in a marathon for a charity Purpose of the document To inform a member of the community to put a halt to the constant barking of their dog between certain times of the night To congratulate a member who took part in the run of a marathon for charity and thank him/her for His/her efforts in participation. Also inform the participant of his/her position in the competition. Target audience Specified house owner ages 18+ Specified participant in competition. Writing style and tone Formal language but written so that the matter is taking seriously with no use of passive language i.e. "please can you stop that dog barking, but don't worry if you cant do it straight away" because this takes a sense of seriousness away from the letter. A congratulating and formal passage of writing. Specified to respect the recipient and his/her efforts. Presentation style This document is not set out to attract or catch the eyes of people; it is purely to present the recipient with the purpose/problem. So a variety of colours and shades are not used as there is no reason to. This document is based as a certificate with a letter. As it was produced to congratulate someone's achievement. it has lots of colours and images on the topic of sport. Layout Logo. Address of recipient and
Magazine Evaluation
AS Media Studies ME3 The magazine that I have designed is a men's magazine which focuses on car performances, new powerful cars and all types of modification equipment available for Volks Wagon cars. Through market research that I have carried out I have identified a gap in the market for VW specialised modification magazines. My market research showed me that other leading car manufacturing companies such as: Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Subaru and Vauxhall etc. all have their own specialised magazine's promoting their sports range of new cars. All the above mentioned companies have other manufacturing company cars mentioned slightly in their magazines. My magazine is targeted at 21 -33 year old men who come under the socio demographic groups A - C2. My magazine is only targeted at men because my research has shown me that 65% of men would like some sort of modification done to their cars whereas only 9% of women would like it to be done on their car. My magazine is going to be in direct competition with Max power, Evo, Fast Car and Performance because all these cars also specialise in performance cars. The advantage I am going to have over all these magazines is the fact that all the above mentioned magazine just briefly analyse VW cars whereas I will be going into detail with all VW performance cars. The magazine has therefore been designed to appeal to men aged between 21
Media Production Log
Production Log Date Task Resources Outcome Any other factors 03/05/09 Starting the main Task which is the Preliminary task of the magazine cover. - Computer (Internet) In this area I will research and looking for certain information about the magazine covers which am I choosing to work in the main task in media studies. By the end of the lesson in media studies, I will deciding the brief about what task I doing in media, so I choose to do PRINT task because it's easy to do and also my brother doing this brief task so maybe my brother also influence me to do this task. When I research in internet search engine (www.google.com) I research about the magazine front cover, then I found a website which is all about explaining the semiotics (means study of sign and symbols) in teenage magazine. In this information a found in Google maybe I will read this information because this will be helpful to me to do my task about the magazine In the task is music magazine cover because I have some knowledge on how to make a music magazine, because when I was doing a media studies in last year (2007) I choose also magazine cover. So in this brief task I doing is I have idea and techniques to do this task and also music is one of my favourite hobbies. 03/06/09 Research and find information and pictures in making a music magazine cover. - Computer (Internet) - Magazine -
media review
Year 11 media: Practical production supporting account My practical production magazine 'Real' is of the lifestyle genre, I looked at magazines like 'Now' and 'Heat' for inspiration for my magazine. With the lifestyle genre I am looking to put a mixture of real life stories and celebrity gossip in my magazine as these are the main connotations found in this genre. My target audience for my magazine is mainly aimed towards females aged 16-40 as this is a very popular target area and their basic interests and attraction to a magazine is easy to create. The magazine has fewer longer articles and more images and shorter texts as most of the people who read these magazines are on the move or don't have time to read through lots of articles and would prefer to flick through a magazine and still be able to pick up 'of the moment' gossip or 'amazing' true stories. My font cover is bright and bold to stand out to the reader. The name 'Real' is used, as these are real stories and real gossip so the readers will have trust in the magazine to be truthful. The name is in black bold and is bigger than the other fonts on the page to make it seem more important. Also 'real' the issue number, price, and website are drawn out from the rest of the magazine as they are in a pink text box outlined in black. I did this to draw attention to the name of the magazine and other vital information. My
Media coursework - Comparing Two Newspaper Articles
Media coursework Comparing Two Newspaper Articles It is generally believed that the purpose of a newspaper is to state the facts about what is going on in the world around us. However, media has long been a way of manipulating the minds of the greater population into holding certain values and opinions. Propaganda is used frequently in everyday life to manipulate our thoughts, and despite what the majority of us think, it does affect our opinions. In general, we believe that what is portrayed as 'News' is fact, but often the facts are twisted to support the political views of the Newspaper or journalist. This essay will explore the way in which this bias is put across to the reader in the medium of Newspapers, by comparing the way two newspapers, the Sunday People (article one) and The Sunday Telegraph (article two) report on the same event. There are two main types of newspaper, Tabloids, like the Sunday People, and Broadsheets, like the Sunday Telegraph. Tabloids are the most popular type of paper; it is often smaller in size, more colourful and relies on page three girls and other such shock tactics, to attract readers. Broadsheets are generally larger in size, more serious and less colourful and promotes its ideas in such a way that one tends to think that it is reliable source of information. The articles I will be comparing are about the participation of Prince Harry
Taking the image of people jumping from the Twin Towers as your starting point, compare and contrast the media coverage of the events of September 11th as reported in a broadsheet newspaper, a tabloid and the television.
2.December. 2001 Taking the image of people jumping from the Twin Towers as your starting point, compare and contrast the media coverage of the events of September 11th as reported in a broadsheet newspaper, a tabloid and the television. The job of a newspaper is to deliver accurate, up to date information to the population. Two newspapers, 'The Times' and 'The Mirror' both have different ways of expressing the same news, following the terrorist attacks in America on September 11th. Where 'The Mirror' looks to shock with a bombardment of detailed quotes, 'The Times' formally and powerfully tells us what happened and the implications of the event. The aspects of the story are discussed in both of the newspapers, with each coming to an extensive conclusion of the situation. Both have presented their articles in appealing ways making it very noticeable to the wide audiences aimed at. The television programme uses both camera and language techniques to show its perspective, as well as some amazing footage of the events taking place. The newspapers 'The Times' and 'The Mirror' have created forceful, eye-catching headlines. 'The Times' has chosen the headline 'Bloody echoes of Pearl Harbour.' It makes a comparison to Pearl Harbour using the words 'bloody' and 'echoes' at the start saying how violent and dramatic the occurrence was. The headline is unable to be missed as it spans
Should men be mothers?
Should men be mothers? Rick Sanders' attitude towards the subject of his article, which is "It's a man's job being a mother" is that men should indeed be "mothers" but hopes to see that other people (including the prejudiced tax inspectors) would drop their stereotypical image of a "mother" being the housewife and the "bread-winner" being the male counterpart. He makes this clear through a number of journalistic techniques including humour, language and the material and detail. The language that Rick uses to express his views seems to be, aimed at the adult aged audience with a wide vocabulary knowledge. His vocabulary is fairly difficult, for example "spurious," and uses a lot of adult jargon. Such as "PAYE" which I know as "Pay As You Go" and relates to Income Tax, but for people like me who is a student and not in the earning age boundary, will not know about it because it is about monetary matters, which only an adult should know. This article has a sophisticated layout of his opinions, experiences, and narrative. This brings me to raise the possibility of this type of article being not in a "tabloid" paper but rather in a "broadsheet" with its clear and concise article in an orderly manner with extensive sentences and paragraphs. He uses detailed descriptions and of situations. The author tries to generalise, to get to the point of the prejudice against women across
Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine?
Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine? If we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine, then won't all women be the same? The number of women outnumber the amount of published magazine by thousands, yet the same thousands of women flock to more or less the same magazines. Does that mean there are only, say, four of five types of women? But if we didn't consider that point, what can we learn of a person from a magazine cover? On the cover of celebrity magazines, there is always the standard airbrushed image of the ideal star. A picture is worth a thousand words, and isn't that image just another advert for the star, encouraging readers to drink, dress, diet like them? Or a chance to tell us, that behind their mask of powder and under the perfect designated lighting, that they are perfect, flawless, something that us, mere mortal readers, can only look up to? From that single image, maybe we can assume the woman, even if it does make them terribly self-conscious, desperately needs a surreal image to look up to and compare themselves to. Continuing on the theme of the much-idolised celebrities, on the cover of this particular magazine, a title caught my eye, as it was intended to, but for all the wrong reasons: X Factor Shocker: Terry Seymour: He [Simon Cowell] bought me an electric toothbrush! The slightly more sceptical minded may rightly wonder, how has
Newspaper Comparison
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What factors enabled the Daily Mail to be so immediately successful when it was launched in 1896?
What factors enabled the Daily Mail to be so immediately successful when it was launched in 1896? The first issue of the Daily Mail appeared on 4th May 1896. It was an immediate success and circulation quickly achieved 500,000. It is the only paper to remain in the same family ownership for the entire twentieth century. A man called Alfred Harmsworth, who later became known as Lord Northcliffe, created it. He was born in Chapelizod near Dublin in 1865 and was already taking an interest in journalism when he began editing his school magazine. In 1888 he and his brother Harold published their own magazine, which within 4 years had become a great success and was selling over a million copies a week. This success helped him finance the children's paper, Comic Cuts and a woman's magazine, Forget-Me-Nots. In 1894 he took on the Evening News which at this point was nearly bankrupt and dramatically changed it making yet another success. Now Harmsworth wanted to start a new newspaper that would be based on and American style. This was the Daily Mail By the time the first copy was released there had already been over 65 dummy runs which had amounted to a total cost of £40, 000. At this point the newspaper only costed a halfpenny and contained eight pages. Slogans used to sell the newspaper included 'A Penny Newspaper for One Halfpenny' and 'The Busy Man's Daily Newspaper'.