G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media

Charlotte AbbottCandidate Number:2021

Centre Number: 27258

Chosen Set Brief Print- 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, produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

School/College Magazine Survey

School/College Magazine Survey

School/College Magazine Survey Results

School/College Magazine Survey Results

School/College Magazine Survey Results

School/College Magazine Survey Results

Schools/College Magazine Survey Results

Target Audience for my school magazine

Concerns

Age

Gender

Daily Routine

Interests-Sports -Music-Socialising

-Male-Female

-16-18

-school -social life-work

School:-workload-time Management -Revision

Features advertised to appeal to my target audience

Topic Of Interest Feature Language on the cover

Driving Lessons • Driving tips• Insurance information• Info on local driving schools

Win 2 free driving lessons

UCAS & University • Different university courses • Information about what

university's can offer you• Interviews with students who

have gone to university

The perfect uni for you.. YES one does exist!

General News • What's currently happening in the news

• The weeks latest news

Managing time/workload

• Interviews /tips with learning mentors

“Is you workload getting too much?”

Fashion • Latest fashion tips• Do’s and Don'ts of fashion

Fashion dos’s and don’ts

General Conventions of magazine

Bold, big masthead

Main image is of a famous celeb

Date and price

2-3 colours scheme (pink & orange) stereotypically these are quite girly colours.

Advertisement of competitions

Articles that will be featured in the magazine

Front Page

Images of celebs or things that will be featured in the magazine

Sub-heading to section of the parts of the magazine

Page numbers and what is on the page with short details.

Magazine name with a rhetorical question.

Contents Page

School/College Magazine Front Cover

School/College Magazine Contents Page

Generic Conventions

ContentRecognisable masthead

Plug

Central Image (usually medium shot)

Direct mode of address

Main cover line

Barcode

Puff

Dates and Issue number

Plug

Left side third: Most important as it’s the side people read first. It will feature the most intriguing things contained in the magazine.

Barcode, issue number and date appear on the right, and are quite small so seem less significant.

Masthead top/left, very bold and bright as its one of the first things people see.

Usually well known artist/celeb on the front, so people are drawn because they know who it is and its familiar.

Contents layered over the main image. Main cover line often bold and big, layered over.

Presentational Devices

Range of fonts and different sizes, used to differentiate contents.

Colour theme is maintained, often 3 colour scheme (red, white and black) Mixed gender colours.

Maintains the house style of the Q magazine.

Main photograph (Adele) relates to the main feature and the direct mode of address makes it more personal for the reader, as well as catch their eye.

Mise-en-scene represents Adele as being strong, seductive and fun.

Language

Quotations used, which will usually be the most interesting and controversial to entice people.

Ellipsis often used to suggest there is more to read in side. Also creates suspense for the reader about the feature.

Alliteration, makes it more catchy and fun for the reader this draws them in.

Puns make the magazine more fun and catchy. They are more likely to attract readers.

Props: Panthers are quite dangerous and wild, this suggests Lily is like a panther. Also she's posing with them represents that she's fearless .

Costume: The fact she isn't wearing a top implies she is confident and outgoing. It also has a seductive touch to it and is showing she is sexy.

Pose: She is looking over her shoulder with her hand up to her mouth and her other hand on her hips. This seductive pose, it also make

Framing: The long shot allows the readers to see her sexy

Music Magazine Survey

Music Magazine Survey

Music Magazine Survey Results

Music Magazine Survey Results

Results Summary From my results I found most people would like a monthly

pop magazine that is priced between £2-£2.50. The magazine needs to include competitions, interviews, upcoming artist and bands and more.

The magazine needs to include posters, and the most favoured colour is black and white.

Planning Photo Shoot

Costume My magazine genre is teen pop which means my models

costume needs to be appropriate for quite a young audience.

They also need to look like a pop artist which means quite modern, and stylish clothes.

I also plan to use props such as headphones or microphone something that is music related.

I also want them to wear a different outfit for the double page spread to show they are on tend and up to date like most current pop artist are today.

Setting and lighting I plan for my photo shoot setting to be very plain and simple

as I don’t want the background to distract from my artist. It also makes it easier when it comes to cropping and editing the images.

My lighting needs to be bright as this suits my target audience and genre more rather than a dark and dull lighting hic is more suited to a rock or heavy metal magazine for instance.

When it comes to taking my pictures I want my lighting to be bright this will mean my images will come out to a good quality and standard.

It will represent and imply that my artists is a happy and a positive person, which will intrigue the readers as they want to be happy like the artist.

Facial expression, pose, body language

I wanted my artist to come across as being fun and happy, therefore this can show in their facial expression, so I plan for my artist to be smiling and laughing in the photos.

My artist pose and body language will also be very open for example with their hands on their hips or hands in the air, looking as though they are enjoying themselves.

This will be more inviting for the readers.

Hair and make-up: I wanted my artist to have quite simplistic and natural hair

and make-up to show they are not too over the top. But I want them to have maybe some colourful lipstick or brightly coloured eye shadow to show they have a wild and fun side to them.

Shot types I want to use a variety of shot types as it can reveal more

of my artist and their costume. For example; - A long shot would shows the artists costume and body

language whereas a close up or extreme close up would show their facial expressions in detailed.

I will try to take shots that look professional and not like I have cropped parts of them off.

After the photo shoot At the end of my photo shoot I will need to check my

images before ending the photo shoot, to ensure that I have a good range of images to use for my front cover, contents page and double-page spread. I will also need to ensure the quality of the images are good for example the focus is correct etc. And that I have viable and effective photographs before I begin to edit them.

Music Magazine Front Cover Structure

Conventions of a Contents Page Name of magazine

(masthead) very bold and big. Images taking up half

the page to show readers what are inside and attract them. Most of them have captions with details and the page number.

Main information about what's inside is on the left hand side

There are three subheadings, each have information below regarding what’s inside the magazine. This helps readers find a certain page or to attract readers to buy the magazine based on what it contains. All three are the same font as the main title, this helps readers recognise it’s a MOJO magazine and gives the familiarity.

Numbers along the side of the information, this helps the readers find the information. 3 colours used (gold, red & black) house style that people will recognise and link the MOJO.

Mini subheadings

Conventions of a Double Page Spread

Front Page

Contents Page

Double Page Spread