Monday, 28 September 2009

Codes and Conventions of a College Magazine

Codes and conventions of a college magazine
- Title
- Date
- Issue Number
- Website
- E-mail
- Images
- Advertisements
- Headings

Language
Institution
Ideology
Audience
Representation

The Brief

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 a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally youmust produce a mock-up of the layout of the contens page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Presentation of your work: the presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more of the followng:
-a presentation using slideshow software such as powerpoint
-a blog
-a podcast