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Magazine Layouts

Click on link above to view a really helpful blog that has posted inspiration for magazine layouts.

Sterling advice on film openings.

The exam board just keep giving. Essential reading for those of you who are attempting to create a film opening. Click on image.

Work to complete prior to Christmas Break (December 22nd) plus examples

  Analysis of Cover x 3  (make sure you use the correct terminology ) Analysis of contents   x 3  (make sure you use the correct terminology) Analysis of DPS x 3  (make sure you use the correct terminology ) Moodboard (this can only be completed AFTER 3 magazine analysis. Use ANIMOTO ) Style of Magazine / inspiration from other texts  (create posts showing inspiration for your potential magazine) Audience profile ( who is going to buy your magazine?) Looking at   fonts  (there is also a guide to fonts on this very blog!) Looking at colour palettes   Decide on magazine title .

Straight from the horse's mouth.

Pete Fraser (OCR bigwig and all round media guru) has posted an extremely useful article on magazine covers at AS level. Highly recommended reading. Click on image.

G321: The Briefs

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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate. Video Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstr...

Cover Junkie

Cover Junkie is a great site for magazine covers. Click on image above.

Tush

Rankin: covers portfolio

A gallery of Rankin's magazine covers. A great place to look for ideas. Click on image to access gallery.

Magazine covers

Click on the image to view a small selection of covers from Ray Gun a short lived American magazine (1992-1995). The rest of Chris Ashworth's website is worth a look too.

Spin

Interview

Fader

i-D

Vibe

Complex