Magazine Front Cover Analysis.

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• Picture - The picture shows the lead singer of the band called Children of Bodom, this shows that if you like this band then you would want to read what the artical about them is about.
• Headline - The headline says "Children of Bodom" which, like the main picture, tells us that one of the main articals in the magazine will be about that band, meaning people who like that band would want to read on.
• Strapline - The Strapline says "Welcome to their nightmere" this shows that the main artical is going to be about their career. Plus the reason the headline says "welcometo their nightmere" is because since the band is a metal band it tries to relate to the idea of darkness. This could also be to realte to the target audiance. mag
• Barcode - Also includes the date and issue number. This is so that the reader knows how much the magazine will cost, what date the magazine was issued and issue number so you know how many issues of the magazine have been created.

Conventions of a college magazine contents page.

• Pictures...Helps get a closer look at what's inside.
• Page Number... So people know what page the artical is on.
• Name of artical... So people know what they are looking at and get a small idea of what the artical is actually about.
• Description of artical... Just like the name of the artical, it helps give people understand what they are reading, but it give a bit more infomation in order for people to properly understand it.

Conventions of College Magazine Front Cover.

• Main headline - It is big and eye catching, and is to headline the main subjects of the magazine. Take the name of "secondary teachers" for example, the word secondary gives the idea it is for people aged 13-16 and teachers is the target audiance.
• Picture - The picture on this magazine is a school student in a uniform holding his hand up to answer a question. This would help relate to what is going to be mentioned in the magazine.
• Date - Important so the reader the reader knows they are getting the issue they want.
• What is inside the magazine... Gives us a taster of what is in the magazine so that they get interested and want to read on.
• Website - So people know who makes the magazine and where to go if they want anymore infomation.
• Logo - Something that you reccognise to make you know you are getting whta you asked for.

The Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close- up plus some appropriatley spread laid-out text and a masthead. Additionaly you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp od DTP.

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

Presentatiion of your work

The presentation of the reaserch, planning and evaluating may take the form of any one, or combined of two more, of the following.

• A presentation using slideshow software such as powerpoint;
• a blog
• a podcast;