Conventions of a Magazine

• Masthead: Top left hand corner or centrally at the top of the magazine cover - eg: kerrangs masthead is central at the top of the magazine cover I have pasted below.
• Frame: Close up/Medium close up - eg: the magazine Kerrang below uses a medium close-up. 
• Feature Stories - eg: 'The Blackout Vs Celebrity BigBrother' and 'The complete history of Rock and Roll success' which are two of the feature stories on the front of this Kerrang magazine.
• Pull Quotes: Certain quotes pulled from articles in the magazine, made to stand out by the use of colour, size and font.   
• Dateline: Which is placed somewhere on the front cover.
• Main Image eg: The band on the front of this magazine, which is a medium shot.
• Model Credit: The person on the front of the magazine eg: On the front of this Kerrang magazine is All Time Low.
• Coverline: Information about articles inside the magazine eg: 'Asking Alexandria' which is probably an interview of some sort.  
• Main Coverline: Information about the main article in the magazine eg: 'All Time Low watch out UK, they're here...' 
• Sellingline: The line that sells the magazine eg:'Punk! Nudity! Total Mayhem!' Which will have been displayed to attract Kerrangs target audience.
• Barcode: Scanned when the magazine is purchased eg: Placed in the bottom right corner of this Kerrang magazine.

The Breif

Premilminary excercise: 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 you must produce mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contentsand double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four pages.