12E: Ill Manors print platform

Read the following print articles:

• Men’s Health interview
• Q Magazine interview
• Guardian interview
• Shortlist interview

For each text, identify the target audience (demographics/psychographics). How is that particular audience attracted?

Then answer the following questions...

1. What identifies that this is a print platform?
2. Do any of the articles do more than entertain? How?
3. Does this platform allow the audience to participate/contribute?
4. What codes/conventions of print interviews are apparent in the examples?
5. How is narrative used to tell a story in each text?
6. What synergy can you find between this text and the broadcast examples we have studied?

Print platform: advertising

Find at least three different print examples (adverts, DVD packaging etc.) for Ill Manors. Post the images up on your blog and answer the following questions for each text:

1. What are the key conventions that help you identify the print text?
2. What design features help identify the Ill Manors brand?
3. What examples of synergy can you find with the broadcast platform or other print examples?

Homework

Finish these tasks for homework - due next Tuesday (4 March).