I thought our questions were very important if we were to address our target audience and this newspaper in the correct way. We needed to think clearly about our target audience and not make any assumptions just because they study media like we do.
1) Do you know your audiences?
2) Do you know what they want from a study guide?
3) Do you know how they learn?
4) Do you know what the examiner wants?
5) Do you know what you client wants?
6) How can you ensure you 'hit' the expectations of your audience, your client and the examiner?
Our answers as a class were briefly:
1) A2 media students for OCR
2) The main point is motivation, it is important not to be like a revision text book so that there is some initial interest
3) Visualisations and bullet points summarising the information help me personally to learn, which I think would be a good idea as it keeps the information clear and concise, we can always bulk the information up later if neccessary.
4) We do not know what the examiner wants as of yet, mainly because we haven't heard back from them. We could use Pete as he is also a senior examiner and would also be a good source of information.
5) It's a national distribution - it is important as everyone who reads Media Magazine comes from different parts of the country and we must not make any assumptions about their abilities.
Here you can see Nick writing the questions on the board and us discussing them as a class, soon after a while clear notes appeared on the board which I think helped us understand as a class these were key issues. The picture below shows some of the notes.
I personally thought these questions were important if we wanted to create a newspaper people would be impressed with and could actually learn from. Therefore, Mike Alex, Kirk and Myself (the quality control team) set on creating a questionnaire for pete tomorrow which he can take to Rhygate to the students at the school he is visiting.
This way, we will learn the answers to a few questions above and it will help us to determine further what to put in the magazine, including ways to learn, exam questions, articles etc.
Nick then asked us to put up ideas for potential content of the magazine and what we thought personally what we should include. We wrote them on slips of paper and stuck them to the board, which are what the pictures below show.
Throughout this exercise and for the next lesson after this, myself and the rest of the quality control team worked further on questions we could ask pete, and kirk had an activity at the start of the lesson which helped us gather up questions for the questionnaire, we could then determine which ones were important for the questionnaire etc.
In the end we came up with 7 questions in total which should give us a very good idea of what we can include in our newspaper from the feedback we receive. Mike typed them up in lesson and created a PDF of the questionnaire which we sent to pete.
1) Do you have any ideas for the name of the newspaper?
2) Would information on exam revision techniques, past papers and questions be useful to you? If so, why?
3) How would you like the information to be presented? (E.g written, images etc)
4) Is there any additional material you would like us to include in the newspaper? (E.g crosswords, wordsearchs, comic strips, competitions)
5) Would you like the newspaper to be informal or formal, or a mix of both? (please explain your reasons behind your answer.)
6) Would external links be helpful? For example, blogs, websites and relevant articles?
7) What revision methods/techniques do you find useful and why?
Overall, I think these are a well thought up set of questions that are not closed questions and we will not receive just yes and no answers, therefore we will be able to gather some information about the kind of material we need for our newspaper.
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