Magazine Analysis

Advert: on back page (hair product) and first page inside the magazine (lip gloss)
Barcode: on the font page at the bottom, more or less in the middle
Cover Image: medium close up of Rihanna
Cover Price: top left hand corner £1.50
Date: top left hand corner (4 July 2011)
Eyeline: the person is looking like the are looking at you (the reader)
Issue Number: under barcode (issue 702)

Advert: in the back of the magazine the Last 10 pages are all adverts to do with different concerts
Barcode: bottom right hand corner
Masthead: the title is behind the person and you can hardly see it, so that mean it must be well know/recognised. The font is ragged and looks like it ghas been ripped
Cover Image: medium short of Mikael Akerfelsdt
Cover Price: bottom right habnd cornerabove barcode £4.25
Date: bottom right hand corner above barcode (september 2011)
Eyeline: the person is looking like the are looking at you (the reader)
Issue Number: bottom right hand corner (issue 214)

Advert:  on back page (for loans, credit cards and insurance)
Barcode: there is no barcode
Masthead:  the title is in the top left hand corner also the image is behind the people with the bottom right corner not showing
Cover Image: three people from a popular soap (eastenders)
Cover Price: it doesn’t say what the price is but it is free with the sun
Date:  ther date is top left hand corner (16-22 october 2004)
Eyeline: all three people are looking like the are looking at you (the reader)
Issue Number: Doesn’t say what the issue is

Shot Types

In class we discussed different shot types. Here is a list of a few we came up with:

• Long Shot

• 2 Shot

• Medium Shot

• Close Up

• Over the Shoulder

Magazine Genres

Last week in class we covered all different types of magazine genres. Here is a list of a few we found:

• Music:

• Sport:

• Gossip:

• Film:

• Fashion:

Introduction To Coursework.

This blog is being used to record my progress in my As Media Level. all my reashear will my placed on here.

1) Preliminary exercise: using DTP (desktop publisher) and an image manipulation program, produce the front page and contents of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately layed-out textand a masthead.

2) Main task: the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. Must contain a minimum of four original images.