Prelim Work / Research PowerPoint

1. G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media
William Clarke
Candidate Number: 2042
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.

3. The following image s
shows the questions I
asked, in order to a get
a compiled set of
results so I can be able
to develop my
magazine e.g. finding
out what price is
suitable, what people’s
favourite music genres
are etc.

5. Survey Monkey
- Username: wmclarke
- Password: ********

7. Target Audience Research

8. Target Audience
for my
school/college
magazine
Age
16-18
Gender
-Male
-Female
Interests
-Sports
- Music
- Socialising
Concerns
Workload
Management
Revision
Daily
routine

9. Features Advertised to Appeal to my Target
Audiences
Topic of Interest Feature Language on the Cover
World Culture • Weekly blog/fact-file about random
countries.
• Foods and languages
• Pictures of cities and groups of
people
Play on words
Various languages perhaps
Latest News • News from around the country
• News from around the world
• Funny news
• What's currently happening in the
world?
- Main national headline
- Main world headline
- Other humorous article
Fashion • Latest deals
• Student discounts
• Celebrity OOTW
“Student Discounts! Save money on the
latest clothes from your favourite places”
Driving Lessons • Driving Tips
• Insurance information
• Local driving school info
Freedom on the Road – tips, tricks and
other info for young drivers
UCAS and University • Various university courses
• Information about universities
• Rankings in UK and Europe
• Interviews with students who have
attended university – points of views,
tips for settling in etc.
The next step . . .
UCAS, universities and more!

10. Generic Conventions Big, bold
masthead
Main image is
main article
Issue/Date/Price

11. Contents Page
A contents page of a magazine informs
the reader of what features and articles
there are within a magazine.
Magazines differ in layout and style
but conventionally, the features are
sectioned into separately sections
under various headings e.g. ‘Excusive’.

13. Rough draft of Prelim Front Cover

14. Prelim Task

15. Target Audience Research

16. Music Magazine Cover (Contents)
Recognisable
masthead
Puffery
Tagline
Plug
Direct mode
Of address
Central image
(usually medium shot)
Barcode
Date/Issue No.
Plug
Main cover line
Left-side third:
Important information
designed to attract
readers is placed in the
left-hand side, the 1st
third of the front cover
page. This is in case the
magazine is displayed in
a horizontal shelving
system rather than a
vertical one.

17. Music Magazine Cover (Layout)
Left-side third: Important
information designed to attract
readers is placed in the left-
hand side, the 1st third of the
front cover page. This is in case
the magazine is displayed in a
horizontal shelving system
rather than a vertical one.
Celebrity’s face is
never covered by
text.
Masthead is
situated top left of
magazine.
(Occasionally
celebrity’s face will
overlap the
masthead).
Barcode, issue and date are
made small as they are
insignificant to the overall
cover.
The contents
is laid over
main image.

18. Music Magazine Cover (Presentational Devices)
Superlatives
Exclamation marks
to emphasise words
Use of
quotations
Short, to the
point

19. Lily Allen is depicted as feisty,
saucy, vicious women. This is
shown as she is topless meaning
she’s sexy. Props: the two
panthers represent as
dangerous. Pose: She’s looking
over her shoulder with her hand
up to her mouth and her other
hands on her hips.
Eminem is shown here to be
ruthless, hard and thuggish as
shown through is tattoos and
his short hairstyle. He’s
wearing a black vest, the
blackness to show he’s dark and
dangerous, the vest to reveal
himself and show he isn’t
hiding anything beneath a
jumper or anything.
Representation of David Bowie
David Bowie is shown here to be
wacky and unorthodox. This is
because he is wearing unusual
coloured clothing you wouldn’t
normally wear in everyday life
and is surrounded by a wacky
bright background, representing
his uniqueness and shows he's
different to the world around
him.

20. MAGAZINE FRONT COVER STRUCTURE

21. FRONT COVER PICTURE
ORIGINAL EDITED

22. Contents Page: Conventions
Masthead is
prominent and bold
Mini subheading of each
article to inform the reader
which story is on which page.
Caption of each picture
in order to explain
who/what the picture is
of and a little bit of extra
Detail. It also references
the page number of the
article.
Images can vary from
close-ups to long shots,
depending on what or
who the image is of.
In this case, the image
shows a close-up of a
singer, suggesting he is
the main topic of
an article.
Page number tells
reader what page
article is on.
The regulars
tell us the
usual
features of
MOJO
magazine. Similar to agony Aunt,
another regular feature
where readers send in
questions to a MOJO writer.
As well as the regulars,
the magazine also feature
s other headings to tell
readers what else there
is to read other than the
regular features.

23. Double Page Spread