- Page numbers
- Headings/Subheadings
- Sponsors
- Featured photographs with page numbers
- Highlighted cover stories
- Cover picture and editor's letter
- Simplistic contents, easy to read, lots of white space
- Magazine contact information
- 'Features' section
- 'Regulars' section
- Masthead (featuring magazine title and feature titles)
- Feature titles
- Date
- Website
- Main photograph
- Simplistic layout
- Variety of colours
- Institution logo
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally, you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.
Presentation of your Work: the presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of any one or combination of two or more, of the following:
- a presentation using slide show software such as PowerPoint;
- a blog;
- a podcast.