Magazine Production

This week is all about magazine design - developing your front cover!

Here's the mark scheme:  
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;

• showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

• showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

• accurately using language and register;

• using ICT appropriately for the task set;

• appropriately integrating illustration and text;

• shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;

• manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.

 As you design, take screen shots (command, shift, 3) of your work and post these with a short commentary which explains what you're doing and why you're doing it. 

Top tips
1. Explain / justify your design choices by making links back to your research (audience / genre).
2. Analyse your magazine design in terms of it's use of generic conventions and the suitability of those for your target audience.
3. Use key magazine terminology: brand identity, mode of address, house style, coverlines, puff / pug, colour palette, spalsh, connotation....etc.

By Wednesday you should be ready to get some audience feedback on your front page. 


 

Useful links on magazine design

1. How to create a music magazine

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/how-to-create-a-music-magazine-cover-in-indesign/

2. Magazine Cover in InDesign

http://layersmagazine.com/magazine-cover-design-in-indesign.html

3. Creating a magazine cover using Photoshop and InDesign

http://www.inspiks.com/create-a-magazine-cover-using-photoshop-and-indesign-cs5/