Guys, you have two tasks to do before our next lesson on Tuesday. Make sure that it is all blogged and up to date by then:
1. Apply use and gratification theory to your main task so far.
Use and gratification theory of the audience explains the use of media in terms of the gratification of social or psychological needs of the individual.Using this definition of use and gratification, how do the following apply to the typical reader youhave profiled for your music magazine?
• What information is provided about the music artist/band itself?
• What sense of personal identity has the reader with the magazine and music forms that it promotes?
• How does the music magazine promote a sense of belonging as a part of a community of readers?
• What form of entertainment does the magazine provide for the reader?
• What form does this entertainment take and how does this create forms of escapism for thereader?
You have done this for your preliminary task. Apply the same process to your main task. Easy and it's worth marks.
2. Read a pop magazine interview of your choice and attempt to break down the article into sections. Comment on the use of language in the article, highlighting significant examples. Next, attempt to consider how this might appeal to the magazine’s intended audience. Finally, how does the article promote or market the image of the band? What does the article discuss? Does the article promote a new album or single release?
Use a magazine of your choice or use the exemplar on Fronter. Again, do this, I can give you marks for it.
Also, continue with your coursework construction
Ta
Mr F :)
