MAGAZINE FRONT COVER MK. 1

FRONT PAGE MOCK UP



CONTENTS PAGE MOCK UP

Front Cover

• Sell Lines
• Mast Head
• Skylines
• USP (Unique Selling Point)
• Barcode
• Date
• Price
• Thumbnail
• Colour Scheme (House Scheme)
• Main Image
• Headline
• Teller

Contents Page

• Main Image
• Featured Articles
• Regular Articles
• Page Numbers
• Vocabulary
• Letter from the Editor
• Previous Editions
• Main Story

Double Page Spread

• Title
• Stand First
• Drop Crop
• Main Article
• Text In Columns
• Page Number
• Masthead
• Main Image (Takes Up The Page)

MOOD BOARD

The Genre I have Chosen is Alternative Rock

 

Alternative rock music became popular in the 1990's but the history or alternative rock music goes back farther than that. Before this genre was brought into mainsteam society it was mainly played with the college crowds and music underground. In the 1980's REM where just becoming big in the alternative rock music world, mmostly through collage radio, and from this air time a fan base started to form for this type of music. Alternative rock music also made a big splash in Britain where punk rock was more popular. In fact, Alternative rock music entered the mainstream earlier in Britain than it did in the United States. This gave alternative bands a broader venue even before the popularity of alternative music in the United States.

Conventions of a Magazine Front Cover

 

MASTHEAD

A masthead is the main Banner, Flag or Name of a magazine or a newspaper, this is commonly large font with eye catching colours at the top of the text.

 

SKYLINE

A type of banner the goes across the top of the page just above the masthead. This is there to appeal to the audice.

 

HEADLINE

It is usually the larges text on the page excluding the masthead. this is there to tell the audience the main point of the magazine.

 

MAIN IMAGE

The background of the magazine. Most of the time this includes a male or female model about the same age as the target audience or a well known celebrity in the genre in order to appeal to them.

 

BAR CODE

The bar code and date is a convention used for the institution the magazine will be bought from. It will then let the store know that this particular magazine is now not in stock in the store.

THUMB NAILS

Thumbnails are the parts of the cover that go below or next the the sell lines to give a preview of the contents of the magazine.

SELL LINES

The sell lines are a convention of a magazine cover used to tell the audience the feature articles in the magazine.

 

 

 

Med-Close Up

The Brief:

Preliminary exercise:

Using a DTP and an inmage program, produce the front page of a new school/collage magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid out text and masthead. additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task:

The fornt page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.