Introduction to Main Task

To create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a new music magazine.

Evaluation My Strengths and Weaknesses

EVALUATION

Strengths-

· I have included the generic conventions of a magazine (Bar code, price and issue date and appropriate layout)

· I have used iconic students for both my cover and contents pages, with relevant shot types (Medium)

· I have used appropriate font types and sizes. For example, the Masthead is the boldest and largest font size, whereas the cover lines where a thinner and smaller font size

· I have used a plain off white background to make the model stand out

· I have included features that my target audience would like to read about. For example, I have included a competition to win a £5 Costa Coffee voucher that the TA had asked for

· My cover page and contents page are consistent as I have used the same colour scheme for each page

 

Weaknesses-

· I have used inaccurate branding as I used the nickname for a company. (‘Costa’ instead of ‘Costa Coffee)

· I could have edited my photos more accurately, as some parts of the hair look unprofessional

· I could have used more content on the cover page to advertise my magazine more effectively (more cover lines etc)

· I could have layered my magazine more effectively, using more banners across the page

 

Cover Page and Contents Page

Pre-edited photographs of my student

Features to appeal to my target audience table

 

The Target Audience for My School Magazine (Prezi)

http://prezi.com/k1mw8etn-khg/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

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Generic Conventions of Magazine Cover and Contents Page

http://www.slideshare.net/michaelfagan/generic-conventions-of-magazine-cover-and-contents-page

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Success criteria- Preliminary task

 

SUCCESS CRITERIA

Include-

· Generic conventions (bar code, price tag, date of publish etc)

· Representation of student, how they are portrayed

· Medium shot of student

· Difference in font types/sizes to make importance clear and emphasize foreground/background

· Simple background to make text clearer and student stand out

· Well organised layout/structure

· Stick to 3 main colours

· Include deals and information that will appeal to the target audience and advertise the magazine

· Use relevant props and costumes

· Use a ‘perfect student’ role model as the front cover

· Short headings

· Consistency between front page and cover page

Avoid-

· Obstructive overlaying

· Busy background

· Using font size irrelevant to importance

· Having no consistency between the front page and contents page

· Using no colour scheme

· Long headings

· Generic fonts

· Any explicit/offensive content that may offend your target audience

· Irrelevant topics that won’t interest your target audience

· Using clashing colours

· Un-professional editing of images

· Using irrelevant  backgrounds eg. A celebrity

Prelim task

Print- 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 appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.