codes and conventions of a college magazine

1. the masthead must be clear
2. cant be a tabloid, must be a broadsheet
3. clear images, relevant to the stories in the mag
4. has to have a name
5. issue number
6. date
7. website
8. e-mail, way of getting in contact to share your views on stories in mag
9. main image for main story and smaller images for other stories in mag
10. the cost of magazine, unless its free
11. show free-bees on cover of mag
12. have an advert on the back

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.

Presentation of your work
The presentaion of the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following:

• a presentation using slideshow software such as PowerPoint;
• a blog;
• a podcast;

Don't worry if you havn't ever produced a blog before as we will investigate a range of techniques to present your work electronically in your production sessions. If you would like to make a head start then visit www.blogger.com and take the guided tour of what the site has to offer.