Python Notes for mca i year students osmania university.docx
Media coursework
1. G321: Foundation Portfolio in
Media
Charles Alexander Landsborough
Candidate number: 2107
Centre number: 27258
2. Chosen Set Brief
• 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,
produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the
contents page.
15. Features advertised to appeal to any
target audience
Topic of interest Feature Language on the cover
Universities UK Rankings University Rankings:
Find out your options
School Sports Football match Year 9 take county cup
by storm!
Movies Star Wars: The Force
Awakens
VII Facts about episode
VII
Music Justin Bieber Bieber Fever
18. Generic Conventions
Mast Head: the
masthead is normally
the name of the
magazine.
Price: usually kept
desecrate if
expensive bought
must been on the
front page for legal
reasons.
Barcode: Usual
put in the
corner
Sell Line:
attract target
audience and
give away
subtle
information
within the
magazine
Main Image: it
is central and
catches the
audiences eye. Colour scheme:
brings out the
main image
20. Masthead top of the
magazine, often
overlapped by image due
being well known.
Barcode, issue number and date
are on the right and appear
insignificant.
Contents layered over
the main image.
Celebrity’s face is
never covered by
the text.
21. Presentational
Devices
Range of font
sizes to
differentiate
content
Colour scheme:
Black, yellow,
blue, white
Photograph of Billie
Joe Armstrong
relates to the main
feature
23. Eminem uses a direct
mode of address in the
image too show his
serious facial
expressions. The direct
approach singles out
the viewer, which
invites them to look at
the magazine.
Eminem is wearing a
black tank top in this
image, this basic top
takes attention away
from his outfit and
onto his fully
exposed tattoos
which reveal his
hard, street look that
we often associate
with tattoos.
Eminem has crossed his arms, to
show that he's closed for
arguments. By crossing his arms,
it puts a barrier in front of his
body, as some sort of
protection, suggesting him as
strong and intimating.
24. Masthead: This
is to re-inforce
the brand image
so that people
will know who
they are.
Page Number:
Allows quick
access to the
content the
viewer wants
to read
Subheadings:
People can see
distinct sectors of
the magazine
Pictures:
Shows off
the artist