College Magazine - Key Words & Conventions.

Mast Head Title Piece: This is the title of the magazine, and is usually located in the top left of the front cover.

Price: The cost of the magazine.

Date: This can be either weekly, or monthly. If it is weekly, it usually is available from Saturday to Friday.

Issue Number: This is the number of magazines that have already been released.

Barcode: Used in shops which sell the product. It is electronically and decoded, and allows the store to see how many people have bought the product from the store.

Teaser: A way to grab the attention of the reader, usually in the form of a word, or phrase.

Main Feature: Headline: Explains to the reader in one phrase/word about the main point of the main story to try and summarise it. The word/phrase is usually in a larger print to the rest of the front cover, in a different style, and in bold colour and this allows the magazine to grab the attention of the couple.

Subtitle: The subtitle is the smaller headline of the cover, that usually summarises the feature of the magazine.

Smaller Feature: Summarises features in the magazines.

Font: The type and size of the words used.

Colour: Specific/Stylisic/Thematic types.

Graphics: Graphical Shapes which highlight features that relate to the features.

Offers/Adverts/Blurbs: Set out like a banner and features promotions, and free products involved in the magazine.

Left Third: Involves splitting the page in three, and then using one the left collumn.

Credit: Naming the individual(s) who created the features. Example: Who the model is in the photo.

Flash: Free Product. Example: Free CD.

Teller: Subtitle which tells what the article is about.

Screamer: Words/Phrase which 'screams' from the page, making it stand out.

Cover Line: A caption which is located on the magazine cover.

Splash: A splash of a magazine front cover is everything that can be seen.

Skyline: This is written in a banner across the top of the page. Usually gives a hint of what is in the magazine.

Anchorage: A caption that goes with a picture.

Vocabulary: A use of words.

Images: Pictures used within a text.

College Magazine - The Brief.

Preliminary Exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photgraph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.