Codes and conventions of a college magazine

• title
• headings
• Main story
• Pictures
• date
• issue number
• website
• e-mail
• price ?
• advertisement
• Beginnings of stories
• Context

Language

institution

ideology

AUDIENCE

representation

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

Main tesk: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All imagines 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 following

• A presentation using slideshow software such as powerpoint
• A blog
• A podcast