Inspirational Text

I've been on Youtube.com and have decided that these are the type of artists and their music that will inspire my music magazine as it is a wide-range without a set genre so it would have a large audience.

Magazine Key Features

Masthead: The mashead is the title of the magazine and informs the reader of the brand. Most the time, the masthead isin the top left-hand corner as the eyes read left t right.

Main image: The main image is the largest image on the cover and relates to the main story within the magazine. It often conveys to the brand's indentity as all images will remain vaguely similar.

Coverlines: Coverlines are the main headings on the cover, usally relating to the main story within the magazine. It is used to catch the reader's attention and lure the in.

Subheadings: The subheadings give more information about the main story hinted at on the coverline and therefore is used to tease the reader into it.

Sub-coverlines: The sub-coverlines are smaler coverlines that tell the reader about other stories within the magazine.

Essential information: This is the information sch as pricing, dae, website, phone number and the barcode. Usally in the smallest font size on the cover.

Gifts: Used as a way to get people to buy the magazine, they promise the reader something along the lines of a poster, a CD, etc.

Foundation Portfolio Brief

You must complete two linked tasks. The set brief is as follows:

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 your grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group must produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.