Media Coursework

Eloise Kenton –Barnes

Actual Task: To create a music magazine to a standard level of presentation, also produce a mock layout of the contents page to accompany the magazine.

Contents Page

• Preliminary Research

• Preliminary Exercise

Music Magazine Research

Conventions • All mastheads are located across the top of the magazine page. The colours used highlights them from the

rest of the text which directs the readers attention to the masthead.

• The images featured in the magazine relate to the theme of ‘music’, they are a anchor for the magazine as they are in the centre of page. The images are all of well known musicians which we can assume will have a large fan base, this causes the magazines to become attractive to the public and cause readership numbers to rise.

• The layout of the magazines vary; ‘Spin, Q and Rock Sound’ have a chaotic layout with captions featured all over the cover, this could be aimed at their target audience of people from the ages 16-24 which sterotypically dislike regimented layouts. The magazine ‘Clash’ features a block colour background with few headlines on the front cover.

• The institution of ‘music’ is represented as modern and stylistic and fresh this is done through the contrasting colours and the poses of the models, the models are of a young age with concrete links within the music industry.

• The sub-headings are all under the topic of music the audience are of a young age which coincides with the bright colours, topic of the magazine and the chaotic layout of each cover.

Conventions Of A Music Magazine• Situated at the top of the title page is the bold masthead in white which contrasts with the vibrant red rectangle. The affect of this is that the masthead stands out from the rest of the page, attracting the readers attention to the masthead of the magazine. to Located at the top of the page.

• Large central image, anchors the topics. The model is singer for M.I.A who is influential in the music scene.

• Colours of red, black and white feature throughout. Offers the magazine a modern and young look

which correlates with the audience.

• Bold masthead in yellow which contrasts with black background.

• Large central image which anchors the rest of the topics, the featured articles (all in yellow) are placed around the articles.

• Black background gives the magazine a sophisticated look. The image features books indicating the audience is of post -16 age.

•The orange colours highlights the masthead from the rest of the magazine and does attract the readers attention.

• The image is the central anchor features a girl presumably from college –relates to theme.

• Featured captions are in contrasting purple and orange although colours stand out it’s hard to read them against the background.

• The masthead is white and located a the top of the page the edition of the magazine is in the top left hand corner.

• One solid block colour as background, differs from other 3 magazines.

• Picture located in middle of magazine acts as an anchor and presumably is a picture from a school trip which relates to the topic of ‘student life’. It anchors the rest of the magazine.

• The magazine features the college logo this is the only magazine that does this.

College/School

Magazine

Image:

• One student side on visible tie. Magazine name coming from a speech bubble.

• Two students holding prospectus’ for the college in a dominant pose.

• 6th form student and school student – varying ages.

Name:

• Coolage

• Questionmark

• The Move

• Prospects

Ideas:

• Revision tips

• Uni advice

• Fun pages - funny exam answers

• General school news

Contrasting colours give a modern

look.

Background:

• One block colour to contrast with masthead.

Will use a contrasting colours palette - white masthead and white sub-headings.

Contents Page

Codes and Conventions of Contents Page

• All feature the mast head of ‘contents’ clearly labelling what the purpose of the page is.

• Featured numbered pages for easy access to the relevant articles, numbers are clearly displayed with a small description of the articles details.

• All of the contents pages have contrasting colours with images that are relevant to the topic of ‘school life’ the images are the anchor of the page and draw the readers attention into the magazine.

• The backgrounds on the pages are plain in colour and usual only feature one block colour.

Result