MEST 4

1: Outline the Text and Topic to be investigated

Topic - why does sports hold so much importance in the current media landscape and is this through public demand or institutional control. Also the amount of media coverage and the topics they address and why.

2: Outline the proposed linked production piece

A range of pages from a sports publication.

3: List at least 2 Media texts that you plan to investigate.

4: Why have you chosen these texts?

Sky Sports News Channel - a news channel which broadcast the sports news 24 hours a day and shows obsessions of a sports fan and the types of stories which are show i.e. sports related, scandal and personal.

FourFourTwo Magazine - Typical sports focused magazine specifically football based and will give me some conventions for linked production piece

5: Apply MIGRAIN to the 2 texts.

sky sports news

M layout of the screen as well as the use of presenters, guests and so on.

I Sponsors i.e gillette. BSkyB the producers of the show and the adverts shown

G Sports News Channel

R of the sportsman, the fans, the clubs and the sports them selves

A Sport Fanatics

I Sports over everything

N the layout of the shows interviews and so on for example hourly report and Lunchtime Report

FourFourTwo

M Layout of the page, adverts and articles

I Hayemarket magazines, number of advertisers and football clubs in the magazine

G Football Magazine

R of the footballers, fans, men, women and teams

A Football Fans

I Football over everything

N articles, words to pictures.

6: What are the issues and debates surrounding these two texts?

Are people too engulfed with sports and how is it effecting people negatively. Does it unite or isolate people. Is sport fixed.

7: State why you believe the 2 texts fit the 'contemporary media landscape'.

Because are both current and on going as well as having large readership and viewership.

8: Discuss the reason this topic area resonates so deeply with you?

Because i follow a number of sports personally and what to know the effects on me as well as how society is possibly being manipulated by the institutions behind the teams.