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         I am taking the AS Media Studies, and this is what I aim to do:

• enhance candidates enjoyment and appreciation of the media and its role in their daily lives;
  
• develop critical understanding of the media through engagement with media products and concepts and through the creative application of practical skills;
  
• explore production processes, technologies and contexts;
  
• become independent in research skills and their application.
  
  And the brief for my course is as follows:
  
  
  
  Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
  
  Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.