more heart-rending for
teachers than for students,
Competition alert! Win an iPod Shuffle!
but whatever your views
about GH, it may signal a
low point in children’s TV
programming, which is a
serious concern for many.
The Ultimate, Best-Ever, All-Time Greatest
On page 54 Rob McInnes has identified his choice of the Ultimate Teen Movie, and has thrown down the gauntlet
with an invitation we couldn’t refuse. We want to know your choices of the Best-Ever Ultimate movie in your own
Visit www.savekidstv.org.
favourite genre. Whether you’re a Western fan, a Horror addict, a RomCom or Musical freak, all you have to do is:
uk to explore the issues and
1. Read ‘Another Genre, Another Teen Movie’, on page 54.
join the debate. Meanwhile,
2. Choose your genre.
hello Waterloo Road?
3. Decide on the ultimate, favouritest, best-ever example which sums up the genre for you.
4. Write about it – between 500-1000 words max – explaining exactly how and why it represents the genre. How
Goths are from Leeds,
does it meet, challenge, subvert or play with the generic conventions? What (or who) makes it such a brilliant
heavy metal fans from
example – and why do you yourself love it so much?
the Midlands – or are
5. Email your writing to jenny@ englishandmedia.co.uk by 1st April – just in time to reach MediaMag before it goes
they?
to print. If you have ideas for images, or pictures which show the all-time greatness of your choice, send them too
A Guardian report has
(but if they’re images, send them high-resolution or they will be too small to print).
identified major differences
We’ll print the most persuasive ones in MediaMag 24 and the best one will win the iPod Shuffle.
between musical sub-
cultures in different regions
of the UK, with some
interesting analysis from
Future issues
leading academic Simon
In September we’re
We need your feedback
Frith. Particularly interesting
hoping to run with the
is the difference in speed
theme of Fan-dom. What
What do you think of MediaMag’s design?
(beats per minute) at which
are you a fan of? What
We’ve asked this before, and found it really useful in
we like our dance music
should we cover in this
helping us to give you what you’re interested in. This
– 190 bpm in John O’Groats,
issue? Or do you have
time, we’d like you to write about one of the following:
down to only 80 bpm in the
ideas for another theme,
The MediaMag ‘look’. You may (or may not) have
West Country. This suggests
and what might it include?
noticed that our design has changed over the last few
that despite increasing
What for you would
issues – and we want to know what you feel about it.
globalisation, the internet
be an ‘ideal’ edition of
You could:
and the dominance of
MediaMag? Send us your
• Apply some of the design principles described
national radio playlists our
thoughts.
by Lucy Scott-Galloway in her analysis of print
a deconstruction of a
cultural roots may still be
As above, mail us by 1st
advertising on page 43, and do
page or spread.
important. And, of course,
April – and get yourself
• Comment on how far the layout and design help or
you may disagree entirely
into print!
hinder your reading of the text, whether the graphics
with the findings – but
grab you, or whether the balance between text and
check them out at www.
images is right.
guardian.co.uk/britain/
article/0,,2253103,00.html And the content?
Are we getting it right, or are there topics we’ve
neglected? Do you like the student articles, or would
you rather see more instructional or factual pieces –
from examiners, for example, or from teachers? Has the
magazine been helpful in your studies, and if not, how
could we support you better? Is there something you’re
burning to see in the mag – a feature on a director or
auteur, a look at the production of a particular genre,
something on stars or performers, more music? Over
to you!
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