Task 4: Essay Research

Five Magazines Aimed at Teenage Girls

1. Bliss
2. Girl Talk
3. Seventeen
4. Sugar
5. Mizz

Bliss-(http://www.mybliss.co.uk/lovestuff/love)

Bliss is a monthly British magazine aimed at teenage girls, retailing at £2.75 and often comes with a gift such as make-up or a bag. The content covers candid celebrity gossip, latest fashions, hair and make-up looks, a problem page on puberty, boyfriends, friends and sex, interview with the female celebrity cover girl, entertainment reviews, romance advice, psychology for friendships and real-life stories.

Girl Talk-(http://www.girltalkmagazine.com)

Girl Talk is a magazine in Britain. The BBC publishes the magazine, which is nationally distributed. The target audience is girls from the ages of 7 to 12. It features a free gift and retails at £2.75.

Seventeen-(http://www.seventeen.com)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was the first teen magazine established in the United States.The magazine's reader base is 12–19 year-old females.It began as a publication geared towards inspiring teen girls to become role models in work and citizenship.Soon after its debut, Seventeen took a more fashion and romance-oriented approach in presenting their material, while still maintaining their model of promoting self-confidence in young women. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. Free gift. £3.99

Sugar-(http://www.seventeen.com)

Sugar was a British magazine for teenage girls published by Hachette Filipacchi. Its content focused on boys, fashion,celebrities, real-life stories about teenagers and other similar matters. The editor, when it closed, was Annabel Brog.The brand lives on through the website Sugarscape. Aimed at females 16-24, it is currently edited by Kate Lucey. First made in October 1994. Free gift. £2.00

Mizz-(http://www.mizz.com/obj/index.php)

Mizz Magazine is a magazine published in the United Kingdom, and is aimed at teenage and pre-teen girls (usually to those between the ages of 11 and 14). Mizz incorporates pages of fashion; displaying clothing trends, using models ranging from 12 to 16 years old. It encourages its readers to write in about events in their life, varying from serious to comic issues. It also contains information about celebrities in a 'gossip' form. The magazine also includes information on how to deal with teenage issues related to puberty, hygiene, friends and relationships. It has a range of competitions and quizzes and posters. It comes out once a fortnight and often comes with freebies (gifts). £2.62

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References: ALL magazine covers from Google Images; ALL magazine synopsis from Wikipedia.

To look further read:
http://voices.yahoo.com/popular-teen-magazines-their-possible-effect-on-35176.html
&
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4990907/Teen-magazines-are-sexualising-readers-says-watchdog.html

Task 2: How I Think Blogger will be Useful for my Coursework

The Usefulness of Blogger for Coursework

• For starters, I can access my work anywhere, unlike those awful Mac's we must use, with little to no instruction. Though of course I imagine in due time they will be really useful, but until then, I shall try to keep to the basics.

• As it is online, I can also do research at the same time as updating. I can find and keep all my coursework in the same place so I will not lose it, unless, of course, the internet destroys itself from the inside as it slowly takes over the world. Probably will NOT happen for a while, if not ever. My work can be recorded in one place so is handy for revision purposes.
• Blogger is free to use and widely known so any issues can be fixed easily.

• It is useful to the rest of the class, and other classes, if they ever get stuck on what they need to do, though I hope they can look past most of my sarcasm and irrelevant comments. At least I can get inspiration from theirs.
• Blogger comes with many templates, or you can make your own, so it is not time consuming to be able to change it to your needs, and you can make it unique.

Internet Kiosk

• The technology world is ever changing, so online coursework can help indefinitely as we have such good access to it. We have it on our phones, in libraries, in class, around college, in phone booths, on buses and even on internet machines around the shopping centres! If ever we needed to change or add to our work, we could go to any of these places and keep on top of our work.

• However, blogger can also be a bad idea for coursework, as computers are easy to fault. The Mac's (as I have touched upon before) can be difficult to use, therefore deteriorating our learning and working time. This was proven today as we couldn't access work as quickly as we are not used to the format of the Apple Mac. 

But the overall aspects of blogger for my coursework is useful and I am looking forward to working with the programme and broadening my knowledge and skills. I will be able to share with other people in my class what I have done, and it means that my lecturer can check on my progress without having to look after several pieces of paper. Ah yes! It saves on paper and therefore global warming and also money.

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein 





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Task 1: Skills Audit

Task 1 of AS Media Coursework, Skills Audit

From the skills audit I can identify areas that need improvement. The main area is the usage of an Apple Mac as I have not had the opportunity to use one before. The learning aspects of tasks such as "copy and paste" will be easy to learn and getting my own digital camera is also plausible. However, learning to use InDesign and Photoshop will take longer. Scanning images to a Mac is most likely similar to that of a PC, of which I know how to do. I can also learn how to upload images to a Mac as this will be helpful when designing a magazine. 

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Arthur C. Clarke