Conventions of a Contents Page

Images can be used to give the page more colour and also link to what subjects are being covered within the magazine.

Headings are used on a contents page to inform of us of the subjects that are being covered in the magazine and are also accompanied by page numbers to show us which page we need to turn to to read that particular article.

Welcome notes are usually used in a friendly manner to make the reader feel welcome therefore making them want to carry on reading the magazine due to the fact that they had a pleasant welcoming note.

Subscription notifications are used so if somebody that hasn't subscribed to the magazine but has read it and likes it can find out to subscribe by looking in the contents page.

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Conventions of a Magazine

Mastheads in a magazine are used to let the potential purchaser know what the magazine is called and also usually suggest the target audience e.g. 'Secondary Teachers' wouldn't attract a teenager who likes gossip, instead it would attract a secondary school teacher.

The image used on the front of the magazine is to mainly draw attention to itself by the use of bold colours and being in a big size.

Sub headings are used to inform the purchaser about what other subjects and topics are being covered in the magazine.

The date is also on the cover to tell us when that specific edition of the magazine was released so we know which is the most frequent edition.

Contact details are also printed on the magazine cover so if the customer that buys the magazine is not happy with it they have a way of contacting them.

A variety of colours also tend to be used on a front cover to attract people becaus eif it was black and white it wouldn't be too appealing to people.

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 medium close-up pluse 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 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 following:

• a presentation using slideshow software such as PowerPoint;
• a blog
• a podcast;