G321:Foundation Portfolio in MediaTom Hughes

Candidate Number:2089 Centre Number:27258

Chosen Set Brief

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, Produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

Audience Research

Mind Map

Results

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Features Advertised to Appeal to my Target Audience

Topic of Interest Feature Language on the Cover

UniversitiesUK Rankings University Rankings

Where do your choices stand?

Competition Win driving lessons Win! 10 free driving lessons courtesy of (company name)

Social Media Pros and cons of twitterTwitter:

The good, the bad and the ugly

Part time work Job vacancies Looking for work?Job vacancies inside!

TV Walking Dead New SeriesTalking Dead:

Rick Grimes returns to our screens

Celeb news Kanye west runs for president

Due West:Kanye for pres

Generic Conventions Front Cover

Large Title of magazine (masthead)

Main Article(often related to picture)

Other ArticlesSmaller Sub Headings and brief descriptions

Barcode

Dominating Picture relating to main article

Attention grabbing tagline

Bright, stand out colours

Price/Issue

Standout words give very brief preview on articles

Smaller pictures related to other articles

Generic Conventions Contents Page

‘Contents’ Title

Magazine Logo

Page number of article

Article title and brief description

Date/IssueDominating Image (usually related to main article)

Preliminary Task: Student WeeklyCover: Contents Page:

Music Magazine Survey

Analysing Results

Analysing Results

Masthead

Direct Mode of Address

Title Cover Line

Sub Cover Lines

Date, Issue, Price, Website

Central Image(s)

‘Featuring’ Plugs

Sub titles

Key

Feat

ures

Left Third:Main focus of the cover; face on eye contact and largest, most prominent font to grab the reader as they read left to right.Having key information on the left of the magazine also accounts for the possibility that the magazine will be stacked on a horizontal shelving system ensuring the main features are still visible.

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Date, Issue Number and price placed on the right to appear insignificant, a barcode would also usually be found on the right of the magazine.

Masthead usually found at the top of the cover spanning the entire width of the piece to dominate layout.Figures will often overlap masthead to provide a sense of depth and layering, not all of the masthead is required to be visible as the reader will be able to piece what's missing together especially if the brand of magazine is well known and has a recognisable masthead. Contents very

rarely covers facial image.

Most magazines would usually utilise a small variation of fonts to keep the cover lively yet consistent however here they’ve stuck to a very minimal use of font to keep consistent with the minimalist monochrome theme of the cover. Instead of changing the font style to differentiate content this example has instead altered the size of the text and also the colour.

Cover StructureDiscord

The UK’s Leading Rock Magazine!Issue #1 January 2016

Win (Band/Artist) tickets!

£3.50

The Raw Uncut

Tom Hughes reveals all in an exclusive interview!

Rocks greatest legends condensed into 1 epic list!

Hall of Fame:

Picture of Dave Grohl

The Evolution of Guitar:

From Hendrix to Zeppelin what's changed?

Picture of guitar

Photo Editing Cover Image

Original Initial Editing

Possible Title Fonts

Contents Page Generic Conventions Masthead

Logo

‘Features’ Subtitle

Article Title

Article Summary

Issue No. Image of

Cover

Page No.

Image illustrating main article

More prominent

main article

Date

Simple Colour

Scheme

Contents Page Convention Use

Issue No. To inform the reader of what issue the magazine is now up to.

Masthead Logo To reinforce the brand image and awareness of the magazine.

More prominent description of main article To promote the main attraction being the title feature.

Date To inform the reader of the date of release.

Article Title To help the reader understand what each feature contains.

Images To visually illustrate what the magazine contains.

Article summaries To give a more in depth but brief description of the feature

Simple Colour Scheme To draw attention to the images and make it easier for the reader to understand and take in all the information.

Page Numbers To inform the reader of the pages on which the articles can be found.

‘Contents’ Title To inform the user that this is where the contents can be found.

Image of Cover To reinforce the features of the magazine.

Possible Contents Page Fonts

Double Page Spread Analysis