59. Media checklist for Advanced and Foundation Production

Media checklist for Advanced and Foundation ProductionCorrect on 2 Jan 2008 

Element	Evidence	Date Complete	Marker 1Comments	Internal Verifier	Mark awarded E/V
A2 only -   Differentiate from AS work
Planning
0. Teacher evidence
A. Part I of Critical Evaluation
1. Smart Brief inc SWOT
B. Appendix:
2. Organisation of time
3. Organisation of equipment
4. Efficient use of actors, settings and props
5. Group/peer assessment
6. Prior scripting/drafting
7. Prior storyboarding
C. Target audience:
8. State demographics
9. Other reasons such as amount of disposable income.
D. Initial research:
10. Research -existing media practice and products – practices; technical, concepts, trends
11. Individual research & planning checklist
12. Questionnaires
13. Focus Groups
14. Interviews
Construction
E. Stages of production
15. Technical account of decisions and revisions made.
16. Risk evaluation sheet
17. Risk reduction sheet
18. Releases & agreements
F. Analysis of finished product.
19.  How decisions about form and content have affected meaning.
20.  How the text communicates through its forms and conventions.
21. Explicit reference made to critical theory; narrative organisation, genre, representation, inter-textuality.
Evaluation
G. Context
22. Production in wider context of media institutions and audience by analysing ways in which text compares to real media output.
23. Relation of product to audience which must include audience feedback.
Other evidence inc link to blog.

58. Parts of a newspaper/magazine

Parts of a Newspaper

 Layout, typical features and technical terms Some or all of these may be found on the front pages of newspapers. 

!  Box-out – A small part of the page, shaded in a different colour.

 !  By-line – the name of the reporter, if they are important is often included at the beginning of the feature, rather than at the end, or not at all. 

!  Caption – typed text under photographs explaining the image. 

!  Credits – the author of a feature may be given credit in the form of a beeline.  Photographs may have the name of the person who took them or the agency that supplied them alongside them. 

!  Crosshead – this is a subheading that appears in the body of the text and is centred above the column of text. If it is se to one side then it is called a side-head. 

!  Exclusive – this means that newspaper and no one else solely cover the story.  The paper will pay their interviewees, buying the story so it cannot be used by another paper. 

!  Feature – not necessarily a ‘news’ item (current affairs), but usually with a human-interest angle presented as a spread. 

!  Headline – this is the main statement, usually in the largest and boldest font, describing the main story.  A banner headline spans the full width of the page. 

!  Kicker – this is a story designed to stand out from the rest of the page by the use of a different font (typeface) and layout. 

!  Lead Story – the main story on the front page, usually a splash. 

!  Lure – a word or phrase directing the reader to look inside the paper at a particular story or feature. 

!  Masthead – the masthead is the title block or logo identifying the newspaper at the top of the front-page.  Sometimes an emblem or a motto is also placed within the masthead.  The masthead is often set into a block of black or red print or boxed with a border; the ‘Red-tops’ (The Sun, The Mirror, The News of the World) are categorised by style and the use of a red background in the masthead. 

!  Menu – the list of contents inside the paper. 

!  Pugs – these are at the top left and right-hand corners of the paper and are known as the ‘ears’ of the page.  The prices of the paper, the logo or a promotion are positioned there.  They are well placed to catch the reader’s eye. 

!  Secondary Lead – this is usually only a picture and headline, it gives a sneak preview of a story that you might find inside the paper. 

!  Sidebar – when a main feature has an additional box or tinted panel along side of it. 

!  Splash – the splash is the main story on the front of the paper.  The largest headline will accompany this, along with a photograph. 

!  Spread – a story that covers more than one page. 

!  Standfirst – this is an introductory paragraph before the start of the feature.  Sometimes it may be in bold. 

!  Strapline – this is an introductory headline below the headline. 

!  Tag – a word or phrase used to engage a reader’s interest in a story by categorising it e.g. ‘Exclusive’, ‘Sensational’.