Thursday 29 September 2011

Magazine Front Cover Conventions

Masthead title piece: The magazine's title. Usually displayed in the top left corner.
Price: Magazine cost.
Date: Weekly: Uually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly: a month ahead.
Issue Number: A tally of magazines.
Barcode: Read electronically and decoded into usable information.
Teaser: One word/phrase acts as an attention grabber.
Main Feature - Headline: A phrase that may summarise the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader.
Subtitle: Smaller headline that may summarise the feature.
Smaller Feature: Features included in the magazine.
Images: Size: CU to med CU. Ranges from one main image to x amount feauturing one main image and smaller images. Helps make the page look more interesting. It can add understanding of a story and/or entice someone to read  the magazine.
Font: Style and size of type face.
Colour: Specific/stylist/thematic types.
Graphics: Graphical shapes to highlight feature(s)
Offers/adverts Blurb: Banner-style shape feauturing free products/promotions.
Splash: All of the magazine cover.
Anchorage: Summary of the image and gives a description of  the image.
Skyline: A line of text above the masthead.
Screamers: A grabbing headline or text on the cover.
Graphology: The graphics in a text to attract the reader.
Flash: Advertisment for free products.
Teller: The subheading on a magazine cover, telling about the features.
Credit: Name of the person who wrote the article, usually features in the contents page.
Left Third: The left hand side of a magazine, usually where the sell lines are.
Kicker: Something that moves you to another part of the magazine.

Wednesday 28 September 2011

The Brief

Preliminary excercise: 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 you must produce a mock-up of the layer of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.