Year 9 Media Studies

Draw flat plans of your magazine cover.  Take photos of your flat plans and add to your research and planning. Begin to compose your front page. Try a variety of images and save each version of the cover as a jpeg.  By the end of the week you should have: drawn a flat plan of your cover added an image of it to your research and planning drawn a flat plan of your contents page added an image of it to your research and planning made a draft cover using Photoshop

Masthead – The name and logo of the magazine. The Lead – the introductory paragraph of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals. Body copy - refers to the text of your written articles, which should be produced as a printed presentation to accepted industry standards, e.g. correct use of language, font size, word limits etc. Usually written in columns. Serif font – fonts like Times New Roman, or Baskerville Old Face, which have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters. Sans serif font – fonts like Impact, or Agency FB, which do not have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters. Drop Capitals – Really big letter, which start off an article. Cross Head – Small sub-heading used to split up a large block of text. White Space – white parts of a page other than text or pictures. Mode Of Address – How the magazine talks to the audience. Sell Lines – Text on the cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience. Kerrang!’s sell line is “life is loud”. Ba...

Analyse a cover, contents page and double page spread from an existing title within your chosen genre.  Use the examples below to help with your cover analysis.  This will help with the contents page.  This will help with the double page spread.