A Level Media

Hi again,

This blog at the moment is currently inactive as I am not doing the course any more obviously. 

I think I will be doing Media for my A Levels which is around just over a year later. I think I enjoyed Media GCSE too much not to take it and I think it will benefit for my future.

So for the new GCSE students - Media will definitely be an option as you will enjoy it for sure.

Thanks,

Shervin

End of GCSE Media Course - Overall Year!

Hi Everyone,

As it is now the 7th June 2013, it obviously comes to a point in the UK where you finish an academic year. A month and a day from now I'll be at work experience from July 8th - July 19th which means I won't be at school in the last 2 weeks, school finishing on the last day 19th July. Basically, because it's near the end, I have finished GCSE Media with around 30+ others. The challenging yet decent exam was yesterday which concludes this dedicated and fun journey. I enjoyed GCSE Media a lot, I enjoyed coming to do coursework in the October 2012 - April 2013 period. It just seemed like something daily as I spent nearly every lunch time and after school completing it. After Assignment 3, I got to admit things got really boring, but it is the end and we have about 1 month of chill out lessons. 3 more exams left from this day, which means after next week I have no more exams thankfully. 

I think it's safe to agree with all the other year 10s how quickly this academic year has flown by, because I still remember perfectly when I once stayed in school to around 6.00pm finishing coursework in around October! 

Media has become a big part of my life, which makes me want to take it in A-Level. I'm going to miss these Wednesday and Friday's spending 6 lessons a week in possibly my favourite subject ever. I've made new friends and became closer with people as coursework (mainly assignment 3) meant we had to get to adapt to each other which we did really well.

I'd like to say a big thank you to a few people:

Daniel Masih
Serenna Mahey
Sadaf Fatima Moosvi
Mr Halsey (My teacher)
Salmaan Shah
Raj Kang 


Here is some of my work from over the past year...

Assignment 1

Assignment 2 

And my main Assignment 3 work is this video. (Starring Sabrina and Me)

Thanks for reading,

Shervin Kashefpour

Swot Analysis for Music Magazine Websites

Hi Everyone, 

I am sorry for my inactivity but I will try update the blog more often and frequently if I get too.
I have done this work in school and most music magazine websites have been blocked unfortunately. Here is a SWOT Analysis of NME, mixmag and Rolling Stone magazines.

Today I am going to give a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) Analysis on music magazine websites. 

NME.com - NME Magazine

Strengths
-Pop up adverts
-Audio and Video Content
-Latest and up-to-date daily news coverage and information
-Animations and interactive features
-Shop (purchase merchandise and goods)
-Tabs which link to other pages (e.g. Reviews, Photos, Blogs, New Music...)
-Behind the scene features shown in videos 
-Login and Register (Membership)
-Free cost to user
- Accessibly website through mobile phone and iPad
-Downloadable content
-Easier social network access
-Magazine Subscription discounts on website (40% off)

Weaknesses
-No printable posters
-No revenue of internet websites (free access)
-Advertise brings revenue, but not enough 
-Magazine comes with freebies such as CD's and Posters

Opportunities
-International Editions for users to access from different countries
-Connectivity with Twitter, FaceBook, Myspace, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr etc...

Threats
-Young audience reluctant to possibly visit website (not a 'trend')
-No posters which magazines usually always have as a feature 

Mixmag.net - Mixmag

Strengths

-No cost to consumer
-Website is more up-to-date compared to magazine which is produced monthly
-Nice, clear website layout
-Latest/daily news
-Phone/Technology Reviews
-Links to websites and festival information 
-Embedded videos
-Audio and Video content
-Information is easily more accessible 

Weaknesses
-No cost to consumer - no finance through this way

Opportunities
-International website (Brazil)
-Easy access to FaceBook page and Twitter to 'Like' and 'Follow' for information of the magazine

Threats
-Young audience reluctant to go on site
-No posters

Rollingstone.com - Rolling Stone

Strengths

-No cost to consumer

-Website features daily news, mainly consisting of Rock news

-Clear website layout

-Interactivity slides reviewing latest news

-Featured artists

-Politics feature, which covers political news

-Registration and Login feature

-'100 Greatest' lists

-Features some Hip-Hop content

-Film and Television feature

-FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr pages

-Embedded videos

-Free use cost

Weaknesses

-No printable posters

-No cost to consumer which leads to no finance

Opportunities

-'Give a Gift' feature which allows you to subscribe for a subscription which will send it to a friend or relative as a gift

-Customers Service 

-Social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr)

Threats

-No printable posters

-No revenue can lead to insufficient funds to operate site

-No downloadable content, where as, magazines usually contain CD's and Posters with music

Thanks for viewing this analysis!

Hope you enjoyed reading,

Shervin

Hostage Magazine Cover, my creation ;D

Hi, 

I am uploading my final magazine cover which is called 'Hostage'.

I think it looks pretty good, but I might improve it if I have too.

Here it is...

Thanks,

hope you like it.

Shervin