G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media

William Clarke

Candidate Number: 2042Centre Number: 27258

Chosen Set Brief

Print – 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, produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

The following image s shows the questions I asked, in order to a get a compiled set of results so I can be able to develop my magazine e.g. finding out what price is suitable, what people’s favourite music genres are etc.

Survey Monkey- Username: wmclarke - Password: ********

Target Audience Research

Target Audience for

my school/college

magazine

Age16-18

Gender-Male

-Female

Interests-Sports

- Music- Socialising

ConcernsWorkload

ManagementRevision

Daily routine

Features Advertised to Appeal to my Target Audiences

Topic of Interest Feature Language on the Cover

World Culture • Weekly blog/fact-file about random countries.

• Foods and languages• Pictures of cities and groups of

people

Play on words Various languages perhaps

Latest News • News from around the country• News from around the world• Funny news• What's currently happening in

the world?

- Main national headline- Main world headline- Other humorous article

Fashion • Latest deals• Student discounts• Celebrity OOTW

“Student Discounts! Save money on the latest clothes from your favourite places”

Driving Lessons • Driving Tips• Insurance information• Local driving school info

Freedom on the Road – tips, tricks and other info for young drivers

UCAS and University • Various university courses• Information about universities• Rankings in UK and Europe• Interviews with students who

have attended university – points of views, tips for settling in etc.

The next step . . . UCAS, universities and more!

Generic Conventions Big, boldmasthead

Main image ismain article

Issue/Date/Price

Contents Page

A contents page of a magazine informs the reader of what features and articles there are within a magazine. Magazines differ in layout and style but conventionally, the features are sectioned into separately sections under various headings e.g. ‘Excusive’.

Rough draft of Prelim Front Cover

Prelim Task

Target Audience Research

Music Magazine Cover (Contents)

Recognisable masthead

Puffery

Tagline

Plug

Direct modeOf address

Central image(usually medium shot)

BarcodeDate/Issue No.

Plug

Main cover lineLeft-side third: Important information designed to attract readers is placed in the left-hand side, the 1st third of the front cover page. This is in case the magazine is displayed in a horizontal shelving system rather than a vertical one.

Music Magazine Cover (Layout)

Left-side third: Important information designed to attract readers is placed in the left-hand side, the 1st third of the front cover page. This is in case the magazine is displayed in a horizontal shelving system rather than a vertical one.

Celebrity’s face is never covered by text.

Masthead is situated top left of magazine.(Occasionally celebrity’s face will overlap the masthead).

Barcode, issue and date are made small as they are insignificant to the overall cover.

The contents is laid over main image.

Music Magazine Cover (Presentational Devices)

Superlatives

Exclamation marks to emphasise words

Use of quotations

Short, to the point

Lily Allen is depicted as feisty, saucy, vicious women. This is shown as she is topless meaning she’s sexy. Props: the two panthers represent as dangerous. Pose: She’s looking over her shoulder with her hand up to her mouth and her other hands on her hips.

Eminem is shown here to be ruthless, hard and thuggish as shown through is tattoos and his short hairstyle. He’s wearing a black vest, the blackness to show he’s dark and dangerous, the vest to reveal himself and show he isn’t hiding anything beneath a jumper or anything.

Representation of David BowieDavid Bowie is shown here to be wacky and unorthodox. This is because he is wearing unusual coloured clothing you wouldn’t normally wear in everyday life and is surrounded by a wacky bright background, representing his uniqueness and shows he's different to the world around him.

MAGAZINE FRONT COVER STRUCTURE

FRONT COVER PICTURE

ORIGINAL EDITED

Contents Page: Conventions

Masthead is prominent and bold

Mini subheading of each article to inform the reader which story is on which page.

Caption of each picture in order to explain who/what the picture is of and a little bit of extraDetail. It also references the page number of the article.

Images can vary from close-ups to long shots, depending on what or who the image is of. In this case, the image shows a close-up of a singer, suggesting he is the main topic of an article.

Page number tells reader what page article is on.

The regulars tell us the usual features of MOJO magazine. Similar to agony Aunt,

another regular feature where readers send in questions to a MOJO writer.

As well as the regulars, the magazine also features other headings to tell readers what else there is to read other than the regular features.

Double Page Spread