This document provides instructions for students to create their own school magazine as a class project. Students must work in pairs to design the front cover and contents page. They must include an original cover photo of a student that they have manipulated, as well as a masthead and mock layout of the contents page. Additionally, each student must individually take and edit 4 photos demonstrating their photography and design skills. The project is due on October 23rd and should involve research on typical school magazine styles and target audiences.

1. Creating your own School magazine Getting started…

2. AS\ G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Preliminary task You must work in pairs to design your own school magazine front page and contents page

3. What is the purpose of this task? The point of doing this task is to give you a basic understanding of the conventions of various types of print media To help you to understand audience and purpose when creating media texts This task will enable and encourage you to use the DTP packages with confidence

4. Details of the task… You must produce the magazine for a new school/ college so this can be a primary, secondary or sixth form institution You must include an original cover shot (medium/close-up of a student) which you have manipulated using DTP

5. Details of the task (cont...) You must also include some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. You must also mock up the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your knowledge of magazine conventions/DTP

6. … there’s more Although you are working in pairs for this project, you must produce 4 images each using cameras and demonstrating composition/DTP skills The completion date for this task is the 23 rd October – this date is not negotiable

7. Key points to consider… There should be an element of research involved- What do school magazines look like? Who is the target audience? What type of school magazine are we creating?

8. Parents, teachers and students Consider your image, who are you representing on the front cover and why? How does your font/typography reflect the type of school you are representing? Try to develop a ‘house style’ What will be your ‘mode of address’? What features will the magazine contain?