Sophie Russell-Jeffrey AS Media CW

A conventional magazine follows the ‘Left Side third’ rule: This is where the most Important information is located on the left side as it is stereo typically the first place we look as we read from the left to the right, top to bottom. In this cases the main article/ headline is located on the top right adjacent to the masthead making these the most important.    Conventionally well-known magazines that are established the masthead is often overlaid by the model however not always.  For newer magazines the masthead tends to be completely visible to help with branding due to this ‘Q’ magazine ( an established magazine brand) . The barcode is located on the bottom left this is so little attention is drawn to it as it is the last thing you’ll see. The artists photograph is typically either central or off to the right to allow room for the most important articles to sit on the left hand side. The main article in this issue of ‘Q’ magazine is in the t...

I have taken/ learnt many things as a result of creating a draft magazine cover and contents page through research and the physical process.  One of which being conventions of magazines and how they bran them, I discovered that many magazines use the masthead from the front cover and continue it onto the contents page and editorial notes page, at the bringing of the task I did not notice that this was a key convention of magazines however, I now know that this is essential to magazines branding strategies therefore I decided to include my masthead onto the contents page and editors. Another convention I learnt when I began this task is that all well branded magazines stick to using only three to four colours and the same for fonts, using this convention for my own magazine I found that this allowed be to create a much more successful and realistic magazine, also it made it easier to create the content and editors page as they could be linked through the use of colours and fonts. ...

Strengths and Weaknesses. There are many strengths and weaknesses to the magazine cover I have attempted to create, the magazines ambition is to achieve a conventional school or college magazine issue with an accompanying content page. I believe that i have managed to do this relatively successfully, and example of my success is that i have incorporated many conventional cover features one of which being the colour scheme, for the colour scheme i have used only 3-4 colours. This is very stereotypical and conventional of magazine covers to choose no more than four main colours and continue this scheme thought the magazine. For my cover i managed to stick to this convention as i only incorporated three colours for the fonts and background of the image; these being Grey, white and mustard yellow. Sticking to this convention allows my overall magazine cover and contents appear more professional and legitimate, in addition it shows a clear link between the cover and contents ( an overall ...

Print - Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipualtion 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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.