Semniotic theory

Semiotics is the study of signs and the sign processes, it give a relation to likness and symbolism  and the importance of communication. Its structure is closely related to language specifically and it is devided into three branchs.

1. Semantics- The relationship between signs and what they refer to and their meanings
2. Syntactics- Relation among signs within their formal structure
3. Pragmatics- The relation between signs and how they effect people using them 

what is the feminist theory

The feminist theory comes from the women movements when they were believed to be from different origens of inequality, in the vast majority of the cases looked at it was aimed at sex, wether they can be sociable or not and ruled by there husbands. the actavists from the movement campaigned for 'Womens rights' this protest was for them to be able to run and purchace land,vote in elections, right to equal pay, oppertunitys in careers and to start own businesses. they also wanted body integrety and reproductive rights as they where faced with domestic violence and sexual harrasment and assualt by there partners.

Qualititive and Quantitive

There are two methods of me finding out infomation from the audiance on what they would like to see in the music magasine of there choice, these methods being qualititve and quantitive.

Qualitative research is a elongeged and is this way by interviews case studies and more questions in detail being asked. It is more specific than quantative research as the results i get are from the persons point of veiw and how they feel about the subject as more personal questions can be asked than what there could be in questionaires as they are retricted to set answers. it has its negatives as it is more expensive to run and due to the ammount of time and equipment needed, due to this i cant gain as many interviews as I would hope due to the prelonged sessions it will invlove getting peoples in depth opinions.

Quantitive data on the other had in 'short and sweet' it gets strait to the point, this means that more people can asnwer meaning i have a broader range of answers, this will be done in the format of questionnaires, this is a set question with a multiplue choice question where it can be ticked on what they believe is the answer, this is quicker however is has its disadvantages, due to it being set questions and stating small ammount of options for answers they wont be able to give thier true opinion in such a manner as they would so wish however it targets a much wider audiance than qualititve but due to the informalitiy of the format it can be seen to be that the results are tailored to what the designers and market what to hear.  
I will be running the quantitive format as i can reach a bigger audiance in a shorter time giving me more time to sit down and analyse the results and make a just decsion on what my outcome will be like.

My introduction to my media coursework

In my media AS course will it will consist of a front cover, contents page and a double page spread. They will be aimed at a music audiance of my choice and I will have to design all three sections myself. 

In the process to completeing this i will have to include: 

2 music magazine front covers

2 music magazine contents page 

2 music magazine double page spreads

2 college magazine front covers 

This appears to be alot of work to fit into the time scheduel that i have so i will produce i mood board and time plan so i can hit targets and keep myself up to date to produce a professional looking magasine.

The latter stages of my project will invlove me taking photos and editing them on photoshop so I will also be posting bit by bit progressions to show my personal developement aswell as my magasine. they will consist of:

• Front page
• Contents page
• Double page spread
• Shots