Evaluation of Sixth Form magazine

Evaluation of Sixth Form magazine

 



Sixth form magazine contents page

Sixth form magazine contents page

 

 



Sixth form magazine front cover

Sixth form magazine front cover

 

 

Generic conventions of a contents page

Generic conventions of a contents page

 

 

Target audience for a college magazine

Target audience for a college magazine

 

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Generic Conventions of a magazine

 

Generic Conventions of a magazine

 

 

Success Criteria

We have looked at some previous media students magazines, we analysed the strengths and weaknesses of the magazine. From the strengths and weaknesses i was able to create a success criteria that would be needed to create a successful magazine. So i will apply all of the things below to my own magazine.

Success criteria

·         Bold, relevant masthead that stands out
·         Generic conventions of a magazine- barcode, price, date
·         Relevant colour scheme visible throughout
·         Relevant font and styles used throughout
·         Features/cover lines
·         Logo or a form of branding
·         Appropriate mise en scene
·         Advertise the content of the magazine
·         Clear layout/format
·         Text overlays
·         Pictures taken with suitable lighting

Preliminary exercise

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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

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 to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

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