As you can see this is a rough draft of the plan of my school magazine cover. In class we had to do a rough draft of the front page and the contents page of the school magazine. Every time I do some more work like this I will upload it onto here.

This is my rough draft of my contents page of the school magazine.

This was just a rough plan on what my magazine was going to be called and also what my cover lines were going to be.

Camera work

In lesson today, we got sent into 3 groups and had to take certain angle shots etc,

Over the shoulder shot
Nature shot
Long shot
Extreme long shot
Stress
Friendship
and so on...

We then went back to our class & saved them onto our computer's and labelled the shots that we produced that day. We got to look at everyone else's shots to and talk about whether the shot is right or wrong and what they could do better, we also got to see how some people shot there's differently to other peoples plain boring ones.
End of the lesson we started planning out School magazine's and what central image & colour's we will be using.

Codes and conventions of a music magazine contents page

Also in the lesson we looked at the codes and conventions of the contents page, we were able to draw thes conclusions;

- The images are used to advertise the story, they usually have a small caption which is generally a very short description of the story.

- Content pages are usually divided into columns.

- The text is ually squashed, this means it can fit more in and the images be more eye catching as the content page is also trying to advertise the magazine.

- Page numbers are commonly found with the images and are placed before the title of the story.

- The storys are not usually listed in chronological order.

Codes and conventions of a music magazine front cover

Today in lesson we studied the codes and conventions of a front cover for a music magazine, below are the codes and conventions i manged to identify;

- Typography of masthead has to relate to the genre of music, it has to be bold and eye catching, and must be unique to the brand name.

- The issue number is commonly found on the cover page as it shows how developed the magazine is.

- The barcode shows that it is a official product.

- The main images is usually found in the centre of the cover. If the image is looking directly at the reader it is called direct mode of address, this reflects the attitude of the magazine. The main image can be either male or female.

- The other images (inserted images)  shows the the content of the magazine and are usually linked to the cover lines.

- Cover lines are text which advertise what is in the magazing.

- Various magazines have promotions for example a free cd, they also use buzzwords such as plus and exclusive, these try to attract the attention of the potential buyer.

- The colour of the magazine can also the reflect the genre of music the magazine contains.