During today’s tutorial, my group members and I were finally able to discuss where we are actually heading with project 4. Our topic which was assigned to us a few weeks back now is ‘Audiences.’ We have gone into further research in this topic as we had to find five academic journal articles each for our annotated bibliography. We assigned ourselves ‘sub topics’ within this genre to each personally focus on for our research. Amalina was focusing on how using different mediums of media (social media, favourite tv shows or movies, etc.) as an audience members can shape a persons identity. Kelsey focused on how people as an audience use media to communicate. My focus was on media and youth; how the media influences decisions and behaviours of youth audiences. After discussion in class today we decided to narrow our ideas down into something a bit more specific as this will be easier in the long run for our final project. We have decided we are going to be creating an editorial style website which targets an female audience. By using our research (we may also have to do further research), our website will feature a few main feature articles, as well as some fun, kooky, interactive sections. For example we will have a quiz. maybe a photo essay and perhaps an ‘ask’ section where girls or women can write in to the magazine asking for help about any ‘white girl problems.’

Our aim is to make the website kind of ironic as we feel this would be more entertaining and perhaps more captivating rather than just talking about boring facts which we may have found in our research. For example we may write an article or a ‘guide’ showing the audience how to take the perfect ‘sexualised selfie.’ Although we have these good ideas we do have to be careful and make sure that the ironic take we will have doesn’t go too far and we do it well, as well as making sure our research comes through rather than just from the tops of our heads. Although we do need to make our opinion quite clear in our project, the project is not opinion driven as it is important to show evidence of research.