Music Magazine - The Brief.

Preliminary Exercise: 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 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.

Main Task:
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.

LIIAR Anaylsis Language Language is everything that the magazine front cover, contents page and the double spread needs to contain. - A masthead is necessary factor for the front cover. Usually mastheads are one word, and are easy to remember to avoid confusion. - The main image is an MCU shot, and relates to the main article of the magazine. - Colour Scheme is usually bright, so it's eye catching and appealing, and the colours usually relate to the target audience. - The thumbnail images on the front cover and contents page relate to the articles inside. Rather than readers searching the whole page to see if they can see a band that they like, they can just search for pictures instead. On the conents page, the page number is usually written with the pictures too, which also makes it easier and more convenient to the reader. - The barcode and price is also necessary on the front cover of a magazine, and is typically located in the bottom right corner of the magazine. - A teaser, usually offering an offer or free gift, is usually spread across the bottom of the page. This is a persuasive technique into tempting the audience to buy the magazine. Institutions The institution is whoever has published the magazine. Many publishers publish the same, or similar genres to each other. Other publishers choose to publish a variety of different genres in order to create a 'gap' which could also be a positive thing. Ideology Ideology is chosen by the magazine, and is a set of beliefs and ideas that as a magazine, they want to send out. Audience The target audience I am planning to aim my magazine at is teenagers/young adults who are interested in magazines such as Kerrang!