Audience, Key Conventions, What I have learnt.

During this preliminary activity I have learnt lots of different media terms for example Media Language, Media Institutions, Media Audiences, Media Representations. I have learnt the key conventions of an effective masthead. Learnt Denotation and Connotation, I can now create a professional magazine front cover and contents page, I can also analyse a magazine front cover in detail and binary opposition (Complete contrasts that exist within media texts in-order to construct a narrative for example good and evil, Happy and Sad, day and night) I have learnt how to layout a front cover or contents page and use different font sizes for emphasis. The four big media concepts are Media Communication Through Language, Language is everything the media uses to communicate - Photos, camera angles, costumes, and style of music as well as boring old words. Institutions companies and organisations that create the media.
Audience of a media product are the people who watch, read, listen or play that media product.
My Audience for this magazine will be ages 12+ as year 7's start at the age of 11 also teachers will be reading this magazine to know what is going on in the school too. My primary audience for this magazine will be 11-19 year old students and the secondary audience will be staff, parents, Governors.
Media Representations involves the way that events, Ideas and different people are presented in a way of Media. This could possibly be represented through websites, news, films etc.

Media audience are all the people who will read, watch or listen to specific media. Radio/Podcasts, TV adverts/ Programmes, Newspaper/Magazine article.

Media institution defines as an established, profit based organisation, Distribution of advertising.

Best example of this has to be ITV or any company that advertises and provides useful information to their customers.Media language consists of  how a text is portrayed to the audience. Media language works through the signs and symbols.