GCSE Media Studies – Controlled Test

The Music PressAims:

• To revise forms and conventions of music magazine websites.

• To consider audience and purpose.

• To create a generically successful homepage.

GCSE Media Studies – Controlled TestThe Music Press

Why Websites?

• Based on your analysis of websites from the previous lesson, use your notes and write down five points about the significance of music magazine websites. Think about the services they offer, the relationship they have with the actual magazine and the magazine’s audience. Remember if they weren’t worth it they wouldn’t exist.

• Now using your knowledge of websites draft out a home page for www.madaboutmusic.co.uk Base the style and form on the front cover that you created a couple of weeks ago. Remember a music magazine and its website must be unified (look as if they are a part of the same thing).

• Be sure to have a range of services linked to your home page.

• Ensure that it forms an extension too your magazine.

• Use a number of real websites for research if it helps.