Monday 30 September 2013

Codes and conventions of a music magazine's contents page

In today's lesson we analysed 6 different contents pages from different music magazine's and found the codes and conventions they all shared.

Codes and conventions of a music magazine's front cover

In today's lesson we analysed 6 different music magazine's front covers and came up with various codes and conventions they all shared.

The 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 approprioately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce 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.