Friday, 28 September 2012

Conventions of a magazine

The key ingrediens:
  • Masthead
  • Dateline
  • Selling line
  • Cover line
  • Barcode
  • Left third
  • Main coverline
  • Model credit
  • Main image

The Brief

Preliminary Exercise:Using DTP (publisher) and an image manipuolation programme(Photoshop), produce the front page of a new school/college magazing, featuring a photography of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead(title). Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP

Main Task:
The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images used.