Preliminary task: Draft of school magazine contents page

Preliminary Task: Draft of school magazine front cover

Preliminary task: Content of my magazine

• A list of regular content which will appear in your new school magazine;

Editorial, Puzzles/ Quizzes/ Questionnaires/ Competition's, what the month has been like (by mr dyment), school advice, members from elephant ears helping year 7's and 8's, charity events going on, and lunch and afternoon club of the month.

• A list of at least 10 feature articles which will appear in your magazine;
• Grades set and match
• How was open evening
• Coping well??
• School dinners
• tie the knot
• year 12's, As's and non uniform
• the frightening first world war - horrible historys
• half term - Doesn't time fly when your having fun
• swine flu advice
• ofsted report
• A list of images you will use on your contents page;

An weatherhead logo, student, common room, canetine, salad bar.

Preliminary task: Details of my front cover

• Title for your new school magazine

Bring on the weather

• Details of the mis-en-scene of your front cover image.

The front cover image will be a student cut out and put onto a white background.

• Coverlines for the front cover of your magazine.
• Grades flying high.
• Halloween's coming.
• how are you coping??.
• Open Evening... oh Open Evening.
• School dinners... nice or nasty ??.
• Top for the ties.

Preliminary task: Codes and conventions for a magazine contents page

Contents page

• Most magazines acknowledge it is a contents page.
• One main image, with other smaller images of what is in the magazine.
• all have specific columns, it is organized.
• not everything in the magazine is numbered.
• pages are not organized numerically.
• all contents have a colour theme, can be the same as front cover but not always, theme connects with front cover, images and masthead.
• most mention the month and year - issue date.
• can be an editorial to connect with the audience.
• plain background.
• information on competitions.
• focuses on cover story.

Preliminary task: Codes and conventions for a magazine front cover

magazine front cover's

• One main image.
• all masthead are situated at the top of the magazine.
• most prices on the right side of the magazine.
• the name of the main image (celebrity or band) is next or on top of the picture.
• Buzz word = plus/free/exclusive (not on high fashion magazines).
• well know magazine have the masthead overlaid with and image.
• most magazines have tag lines.
• all have a particular theme (design, due to cost issue).
• interview's.
• Main image and Main cover line.
• most magazines include other images (usually photographs).
• 2 to 3 different fonts, the masthead is in different font.
• central image relates to genre.
• banners with summary of information.
• between 6 to 10 cover lines.
• website address.