Audience Research

Homework task: Audience Profiling and Canvassing your Target Audience

Task: Audience interviews 
What to do: Individually you need to interview at least 7-10 people of different ages and genders in response to your pitch. 

You can use Google Forms to do this

Begin by asking them their age / gender so this can collate those statistics.

Ask what the term 'reality television' or 'real life magazines' means to them.

Set up a question to provide a space to give any examples they might know

Have questions about the type of content they would expect from your particular genre/media form.

Invite open-ended questions that allow for discussion and description as well as closed questions (yes/no answers).

You will then be able to share this questionnaire across social media or email to widen your potential net.

 

Second Blog Post - Initial Research into Reality TV Programmes and Real-Life Magazines

After completing your very first post on Blogger, it's time to start using this platform for documenting your NEA journey!

Using the slides below, I would like you to research:

• 1 example of a Reality TV programme
• 1 example of a Real-Life Magazine

In your post, you need to include the following:

• an image/screenshot or still of your magazine cover/reality TV programme
• short commentary on what types of stories are being featured on the magazine
• short commentary on the sub-category or theme the reality TV programme is 
• what audience demographics it could be targeting (Age, Gender, Nationality, Class/Status, Ethnicity, Sexuality)
• Bonus Feature: Include short commentary on any representations/stereotypes are being displayed in the stories/images/people featuring.

Remember to click 'Publish' when you're finished!

If the images above are not displaying due to Internet Filter, these slides are posted on Teams for viewing and I'll see what I can do about the filtered images by speaking with our Tech Crew in IT.

Your First Blog Post

To welcome each other into A Level Media blogging and to flex your digital skills, I would like you to create a blogpost completing the following 4 tasks:

1. At least 1 imported image. There are a few ways to do this. Have an explore using the three dots ... icon in the blogpost toolbar and choosing the picture icon or ask Ms Moore if you're stuck.

2. At least 1 embedded YouTube video.

How to do this:
Find your intended YouTube video in a new tab and click on 'Share' underneath it. Next, click on 'Embed' and copy the code displayed:

Go back to your blog post draft and switch to HTML code by clicking on the 'pen' icon and switching to HTML view, pasting in the code where you want the video to appear:

Return to normal typing mode by clicking on 'Compose view' and you should see your video now embedded into your post.

An alternative is to click the clapperboard icon and search directly in YouTube, but the size of videos isn't as good and will upload something like this:

3. A short, personal response to the question: What I've discovered about Media Studies in Year 12

4. New-found films/actors/directors you have watched following Mr Dettman or Ms Moore's recommendations.

5. Remember to click 'Publish' when completed so your post goes live on your blog for all to see!

Welcome to the world of blogging! Now you can click here to move to your first research post for your NEA coursework evidence.

Screencastify - News Websites

Example Screencastify by a student:

Include:

• Details about which newspaper the website is for and the DATE YOU ARE LOOKING AT
• The organisation of the website - what appears at the top and then other sections of the Homepage
• Discuss images, headlines and the categories of stories (politics, celebs, sports etc)
• Click on at least one other page of the website and address the layout and choice of content here