This document lists 10 tasks for creating a magazine, including researching codes and conventions of magazine elements like covers and articles, brainstorming magazine ideas and names, creating mood boards of inspiring magazine covers and contents pages, choosing fonts, researching background designs, and taking photos for the cover. The tasks are meant to be completed, printed, and placed in a research and planning folder. Examples and requirements are provided for many of the tasks.

1. MAGAZINE TASKS
You must complete the following tasks, print them
off and put in your Research and Planning folder.

2. Task 1
Explain what the codes and conventions of a
magazine front cover, contents page and main
article are.
This will result in 3 different pages that will go inside
your folder.
Front Page Contents
Page
Main Article

3. Front Page Example

4. Contents Page Example

5. Main Article Example

6. Task 2
Brainstorm 10 ideas that your magazine could be
based on.
My
Magazine
Ideas

7. Task 3
Create a mood-board of images of front covers
that will inspire your own front cover .

8. Task 4
Referring to your mood-board choose 3 covers that you
really like and explain what you like about them / how they
will inspire your own front cover.
You should discuss:
• Layout
• Photography
• Colour Scheme
• Use of text / Fonts
• Anything else?
Example: I really like the use of pastel pink for the
background of this magazine cover because it
looks stylish and grabs the readers attention. There
is a lot of creativity in how the model is presented
and the simple layout further makes the magazine
look stylish. The bold fonts are easy to use and the
variety of fonts makes the page more interesting to
look at.

9. Task 5
Once you have decided on the type of magazine you will
create you must research magazine names of that type of
magazine that already exist. To evidence this create a
brainstorm of magazine names that will inspire your own.
Existing
Music
Magazine
Names
NME
Clash
Q Music
Rolling Stone

10. Task 6
Referring to your magazine research create a list of names
that you could use for your own magazine. You can present
this how you want but be creative!

11. Task 7
Evidence research of the different fonts used for magazine
names and create a mood-board or brainstorm to evidence
this.
Find at least 10
example names
to refer to.

12. Task 8
Evidence examples of the different types of fonts you will
use in your magazine, for a higher mark explain why you
think the are effective.

13. Task 9
Create a mood-board of images of contents pages
that will inspire your own contents page.

14. Task 10
Referring to your mood-board choose 2 contents pages
that you really like and explain what you like about them /
how they will inspire your own front cover.
You should discuss:
• Layout
• Photography
• Colour Scheme
• Use of text / Fonts
• Anything else? Example: I really like the simplistic layout of this
contents page and the creativity of the fonts used
in the title of the page. I think the image is
interesting too and the colour within it make the
contents page more interesting to look at.

15. Still to do…
• Front cover imagery research
• Front cover photo-shoot contact sheet

16. Task
Research 10 images and create a mood-board to
determine what the background of your magazine
will look like.
Background
Design
Ideas

17. Task 4
Choose 3 images from your mood-board that you
like best and explain why you like them and how
they will inspire your own work.
Example: I really like the use of
pastel pink for the background of
this magazine cover because it
looks stylish and grabs the
readers attention. The colour also
links to the magazines target
audience as pink is stereotypically
associated with the female
gender.

18. Task 5
Rese.
Example: I really like the use of
pastel pink for the background of
this magazine cover because it
looks stylish and grabs the
readers attention. The colour also
links to the magazines target
audience as pink is stereotypically
associated with the female
gender.