Ideology in Media Studies

Idelogy is basically the ideas behind the media text, the secret ideas that arent shown from its producers but represented through text. Ideolgy can be very importand within magazines as it gives a paramatic approach to that magazine. an example of this would be the film "Dances with the wolves" represents sertain idelogies of Native american history. Ideology is a body of ideas or set of beliefs that underpins a process or institution and leads to social relations.




Ideology is shown in many differnt ways in school magazines, an example of this would be the front cover and how its portrayed to in a positive way with pictures and colours. (UNFINISHED)

Questionaire

I have made a small questionaire for people to share there views with me about music magazines. To partisipate in this questionaire please follow this link here.

Semiotics

Semiotics is the Study of Signs. A Sign is something that stands for something other than itself, semiotics is the study of these signs and there interpretation. For example, the colour red could signify Anger or danger. This picture on the right represents how the thought process of signs work. This was Charles Sander Pierce's theory. Another theorist in semiotics is a man called Ferdinand De Saussure. he believed that signs do not in fact represent reality but they do construct it. He believed that signs are purely psychological. 

Data Meathods- Quantitative and Qualitative

When you collect data, you will use two methods of collecting it. The first method would be Qualitative data, and the other is Quantitative data.

• Quantitative data is when you ask questions that only require a one word answer or a option to tick a given answer in a box. The advantages of this would be that it is easier to generalise and it is usually quick. Although this is more efficient, the answers may not be accurate to the actual opinion of the audience.  Quantitative data is more of a fact based answer in which there are minimal answers available.
  
  Qualitative data is when you ask questions that require more of an elaborate answer to what was asked. Getting this type of data is hard to generalise but can give a more honest and informative answer.  Qualitative data is used for a more opinion based answer, or something that is specific to that person.
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Introduction Post

Hello my name is Ryan Evans. I have made a Blog account to keep track of all my Media As work I will be doing between now and April 2012.
My Preliminary Task is to make a front cover and a contents page for a school magazine. 
My Main task is to produce a music magazine including:

• A Front page 
• A Content Page  
• A Double page spread.

I will also be adding any drafts and research planning when creating this magazine.