conventions of magazine layout

Term                                                             Description
Masthead title piece                                  The magazine title, usually displayed on the top left corner
Price                                                            Magazine cost
Date                                                            Weekly; usually from saturday to Friday. monthly, a month head
Issue Number                                             A tally of magazines
Barcode                                                      Read electronically and decoded into usable information
Teaser                                                        one word/phrase acts as an attention grabber
Main feature                                              a phrase that may summarise the main point of the main feature
Subtitle                                                       smaller headline that may summarise the feature
Smaller Feature                                         features included in the magazine
Images                                                        size, close up to medium close up main image. understanding of story
font                                                             style andf size of type face
colour                                                         specific/stylistic/thenatic types
graphics                                                     Graphical shapes to highlight feature(s)
offers/adverts Blurb                                 offers/ adverts blurb
Left Third                                                 position major story, important
Sell Lines                                                  selling the title ( tag line)
Splash                                                       Graphic splashed onto image
Credit                                                       photographers credit
Kicker                                                      leading you in
Teller                                                        explaining the kicker
Skyline                                                     above masthead, special feature
Flash                                                        graphic posted ontop
Graphology                                              the art of graphics : colour, fonts etc
Anchorage                                               explains coverage of photograph
Vocabulary                                              use of language
Screamers                                               capital letters, important thing

Preliminary Task

Using programmes such as Photoshop i will produce the front page of a new college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up shot plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead.Additionally i must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP