Codes & Conventions of a Contents page

The image's that is on the page relate to the colums that is on the contents page, aslo the font soze has to be size 11 notthing smaller or bigger.
On the contents page there is dropqoutes on there and there has to be page numbers on by the images or the colums.
All the text has to be in colums going down the page. There is half images on the page and half text on there and finally sometimes the editor has there very own letter and an image of the editor on there, but only sometimes does this happen.

Codes & Conventions of music magazine/ Double page spread

On friday in lessons we discussed the codes and conventions of a music magazine. The things that a music magazine should include is;
Dropcap (the first letter of the first word of the first paragraph is enlarged)

Dropqoute (qoute inside the colum that is important, for example ''I just love dancing''

Heading is the tittle at the top of the article and is allways at the top and the font is large.

Strapline is when a piece of text that is giving you information about what the colum holds. It is normall in a box under the heading.

Main image is normally on the left and right on both of the pages.

All the text is in colums going down the page.

The contents page has to link to the contents page

and finally the feature article has to be the double page spread.

Evaluation

My media product uses conventions of a real media product as it concludes the following:
It has a mast head on the front page at the top, the tittle is in italian to be unique and to grab the audiences attention. Also I have used a much larger font on the mast head as it is the main attraction to the front cover.
Two other things that I have used in this magazine that any other normal magazine uses is an issue number and the date when it came out, this is mostly under the mast head also I have put it in a black font so it stands out so that people can see what issue number it is to see if they are behind on their daily magazine they get.

Every magazine has a barcode this is improtant for a magazine to include it on there front cover. Its mostly on the bottom on the left or the right side of the magazine, I have put my barcode on the bottom right hand side of the magazine.
My main image is a sixform girl from weatherhead holding a piece of paper that is ment to be her results she got for 2010. The girl is really happy with her results and holding the piece of paper up with joy!
Around the main image I have put my coverlines, every magazine has at least 7+ coverlines on their front page. The coverlines I have used are baised around school and the pupils of this school, the coverlines include Interviews with students/Staff and also reports from it.

To make my magazine I used photoshop, i used this in year 10 but using it now has helped me recap on how to use it, and i am now confident to use it on my main task. To make my Contents page i used a new programme called QuarkXPress, this was new to me but after using it after a number of times i got the hang of it and can now use it in the future.
I think my background of my magazine isnt reay good, as it is just one block colour I would of preferd it if it was to different shades, still colours that consist with my magazine colours. However I liked the font I used for the writing.

Front page of school magazine

Here is my front cover to my school magazine. We had to make this on Adope Photoshop and this also had to be created in a week. It had to have over 5 cover lines on it, I put on 8 just to make sure. It had to have a main image of someone(not yourself) on the front cover.

Contents page
Here is my contents page finally finished, the programme we used to make my contents page was QuarkXPress (R). We had 4 lessons on making this and completerly finishing it. I had to make sure that I had over 4 images on my contents page and that I had over 15 captions. I put 20 on there just to make sure that there was enough.

Lesson

In lesson today we made note's on how to use Quark because we would be using this programme to create our contents page for our school magazine. We made note's on the basics of it and then we had to open it up and get a new page up and name it.

Next lesson we had to finish of our front page of the school magazine, I have personally had problems with making my front cover, but i have now finished it and am moving on with the contents page tomorrow.

Photographs for school magazine


Also we had to go out and take photographs for our school magazine, I had to take a picture of my model holding a piece of paper pretending it to be here GCSE results.

These are a range of photographs that i tuck of my model posing for my music magazine.