Media CourseworkPrint – G321

Eloise Kenton –Barnes

Preliminary Exercise: To create a school magazine to a standard level of presentation, also produce a mock layout of the contents page to accompany the magazine.

Contents Page

• Preliminary Research

• Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary Research

Conventions • All mastheads are located across the top of the magazine page. The colours used highlights them from the

rest of the text which directs the reader’s attention to the masthead.

• The images featured in the magazine relate to the theme of ‘school life’. They are an anchor for the magazine as they are in the centre of page the images are all of students.

• The background of the images vary the magazines ‘campuslife, college, and studentlife.’ show a photo-shopped background whereas the magazine ‘college life’ shows a real un - edited background.

• The institution of ‘college’ is represented as modern and stylistic this is done through the contrasting colours and the poses of the models within the images.

• The topics shown are all under education the audience could either be students with queries or parents who need information.

Conventions Of A College Magazine

• Bold masthead which contrasts with the grey - scale background, Attracts readers. Located at the top of the page.

• Large central medium shot, anchors the topics featured around the model.

• Colour scheme of red, black and white feature throughout. Offers the magazine a modern and young look which correlates with the audience.

• Bold masthead in yellow which contrasts with black background.

• Central medium-long shot which anchors the rest of the topics.

• the featured articles (all in yellow) are placed around the articles.

•The image features books indicating the audience is of post -16 age – relating to mise-en-scene

• The masthead is in the font of ‘Lucida handwriting’. It is in the colour of orange and clearly highlighted.

• The medium shot is central and features a girl from college –relates to theme.

• Featured captions are in conflicting purple and orange colours. Although the colours stand out it’s hard to read them against the background.

• The masthead is white and located a the top of the page

•The edition of the magazine is in the top left hand corner.

• One solid block colour as background, differs from other 3 magazines.

• Picture located in middle of magazine acts as an anchor and is a picture from a school trip which relates to the topic of ‘student life’.

• The magazine features the college logo this is the only magazine that does this.

College/School

Magazine

Image:

• One student side on visible tie. Magazine name coming from a speech bubble.

• Two students holding prospectus’ for the college in a dominant pose.

• 6th form student and school student – varying ages.

Name:

• Coolage

• Questionmark

• The Move

• Prospects

Ideas:

• Revision tips

• Uni advice

• Fun pages - funny exam answers

• General school news

Contrasting colours give a modern

look.

Background:

• One block colour to contrast with masthead.

Will use a contrasting colours palette - white masthead and white sub-headings.

Contents Page

Codes and Conventions of Contents Page

• All feature the mast head of ‘contents’ clearly labelling what the purpose of the page is.

• Featured numbered pages for easy access to the relevant articles, numbers are clearly displayed with a small description of the articles details.

• All of the contents pages have contrasting colours with images that are relevant to the topic of ‘school life’ the images are the anchor of the page and draw the readers attention into the magazine.

• The backgrounds on the pages are plain in colour and usual only feature one block colour.

Result