Analysing a Empire Magazine Cover

1. The big red title stands out so we know what the magazine is.

2.The subheading right at the top "Two Massive Posters"

3.Picture of the posters advertised in the subheading.

4. A title which says what the magazine will contain"Terminator Salvation"

5. Big Picture of Christian Bale acting as the whole magazine background cover.

6.I think that the target audience would be people over 15+ due to a child wouldnt be able to get into see Terminator.

7.Price of the magazine and the date.

conventions of college magazine contents page

Titles and page numbers
So we know what is on each page and what will be on it

Pictures
aome pictures relate to the title "page 20, Money winners" with a picture of a money bank

Phone number and email
So you

how to subscribe

advertisements

publishers and editors

competition

Conventions of a college magazine front cover

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A large heading/title
So we know what the magazine is, and that it is for teachers "Secondary Teachers"

A big picture on he front
A clue as to what the magazine contains

Sub headings at the top 3
Short stories and what the magazine will have inside it. So that the reader has a idea before he/she buys it.

Date
So that we know when it was published, no point reading a 2007 magazine in 2009

Website

Bright colours

creator

the brief

Preliminary excersise: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 appropriatley aid-out text and masthead.Additionally you must procede a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate thier grasp of DTP.

mainTask; 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 ofthe research,planning and evaluation may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more of he following:

a presentation using slideshow software such as power point

a blog

a podcast