Conventions of A Magazine

Masthead- The title of magazine, is usaually found in the top left corner of the splash. This is for display purposes so the magazine's title easily visable when been displayed on a shelf with other magazines overlaping the right hand-side

Cover Lines- Cover lines sell the magazine they tell the audience/demographic what is in the magazine, usually the main cover line ties in with in the image on the splash

Splash- The entire front cover of the magazine

Kicker- A kicker is a smaller-font headline, often underlined, just above the main headline. Kickers are often a one or two word identifier used to help readers select articles. Ideally, kickers classify articles

Teller- coverlines telling the audience what the magazine holds and what topics it contains

Barcode- Read electronically and decoded into usable information

Skyline-  A banner above the mast head usally containing text

Graphology-  the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, ect.

The Brief

Preliminary excercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce theh front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photo graph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a mast head. Additionally you must produece 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.

Presentation of your Work:
The presentation of the research, planning and evalution may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following:

A presetntaion using slideshow software
A blog
A podcast