Key Features of a Magazine Cover

Key Features of a Magazine Cover

 

I found this image using google images and edited it by labelling the features around the image

Masthead:
The title of the Magazine, it allows buyers to see what magazine they're buying but is not the main aspect of the front page.

Coverlines:


The coverlines are to tell you what this issue of the magazine will contain and will be  smaller versions of the subheadings.

Subheadings:The subheadings are a teaser as to what else will be in the magazine so the reader will want to buy it.

Essential Data:The essential data (the date, issue number, price and website) are all to inform the reader of basic details of the magazine, the smallest font on the cover.

Main Image:
The image is the first thing the reader will notice, it takes up most of the cover, it informs the reader what the main focus of this issue of the magazine will be and is used as the main selling point.

 

Foundation Portfolio Brief

Print Brief

You must complete two linked tasks. The set brief is as follows:

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 you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group must produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.