Magazine Front Cover (Conventions)

Front Covers

Purpose of a Front Cover

The front cover functions to attract reader, the front cover has many parts (conventions), each magazine will have similar conventions. 

Masthead

This is the title and name of the magazine, this is always located at the top as this is the first thing hat reader see. The font style and colour helps sell the magazine, this gives an indication of the content and audience. The name needs to be chosen carefully as it has so be memorable. 

Tag Line

This is located near the title and tells you about what the magazine is about and who its aimed at. 

Central Image

This is the most important part as this captures the audiences attention before they look at the printed text. The  dental image has to be relevant to the magazines content. 

Cover Model

A cover model is used, they are mostly celebrities and model, this increased the selling point of the magazine as they can see a familiar face on the front cover. It can also determine the content of the magazine due to their pose.

Anchorage 

What the images are referred to, this helps as the image gives it meaning and helps the reader to understand the significance of the picture. 

Secondary Image

The front cover helps to promote other features in the magazine. 

Cover Lines 

The cover lines are located at various points on he front cover, this tells the reader about what is in the magazine and what articles are in the magazine. There are often 6-12 cover lines on the front cover of the magazine. 

Mode of Address

This is how you address the public, e.g. 2nd person (you). The address needs to fit with the genre and meaning of the magazine. E.G. 1st person ("I lost weight by using this diet.") 

Puff

This is the device which helps to draw the attention to the magazine and what helps to promote the magazine, the puffs are unusually found in bubbles and circles. Puffs can be the price, gifts ('freebies') and prizes to be won,

Pug

Ears of the magazine found at the top left or top right hand side, this usually is used for a promotion, this will be the edition or possible the price. 

Barcode, Price, Addition 

These three things must always be included in the front cover. 

Use of Colour

The colour is used for greet effect, some colours may alter the addiction and meaning to the magazine. Alter the colour due to coordinate within the central image. Determine whether colour is used to send an image or chosen for them axons theme. 

About Shout Magazine

Shout Magazine

Shout Magazine, is a UK magazine for teenage girls, this was published in 1993 and is published by D.C. Thomson. Shout Magazine is also edited by Maria T.Welch. Within the magazine it includes information about fashion, celebrities, stories, gossip, problems and also embarrassing moments. 

Shout magazine set up a survay for the public, the results came back saying the public would like to read about true stories and moments, therefore Shout release a magazine containing true stories, this was called Shout Secrets, which was released in 2008, this was sold for £3.00.

  

This is one issue of Shout Magazine, as you can see this front cover is very attractive to the eye for teenage girls and it contains colour and a celebrity, it includes the contents at the front explaining whats in the magazine. Shout usually uses a female figure on the front cover. 

Layout and Content of the Magazine 

Within this magazine it contains bright colours, which is appealing to the teenage eye, the layout is very clear and easily understood. Not the front cover of the magazine it explains what is inside of the magazine. There are many pictures within the magazine, this is good for young teenagers as they may not want to read a lot. In the magazine, it includes advertisements which are very relevant for a teenage girl, for example an advert for a body spray, perfume. 

In the contents it includes what is in the magazine, so it is easy to find. The font is very big, bold, colourful and very clear, this attracts the attention very well. There are also fun competitions in the magazine, including winning a iPad. In the magazine it has many posters which teenagers can hang up.

Planning the Advert Day 5

Agenda- Editing in Final Cut


As all the filming is done, we now need to edit the video in order to make it better and more of an advert material. When we are editing we will cut out any unnessary parts and we will try to cut the video down to 10  seconds or less. This will all be done in final cut as this is the best way to edit our video.

This is the final copy of our product. This is the Shreddies advert in which we have created.

This is our recorded pitch.

Planning the Advert Days 4

Agenda- Planning for the filming



We are filming to day and creating our advert for real, we are very confident with our plans and are hoping for the shoot to go well. Everything is booked and is planed for and interruptions or cancelations, even breakages.

The filming went very well and this stuck to plan, it was done on time and everyone was there to participate within the video shoot. The video shooting is now done, all we need to do now is to edit.

Planning the Advert Day 3

Agenda-

We are all very clear of what we are doing within our shoot, we have organised times to meet each other in order to be punctual and on time, this is to make sure that everyone is one time and they are ready to film on time, this will help us to stick to our plans when it comes to the real day of shooting.

We have drawn sketches of the scenes and listed all the equipment in which we need to get ready for Thursday the 7th, this is used as a check listed so we know what we need at what time. We are looking over our pitch presentation in order to follow our original plans.

We are focusing and looking at where the camera is meant to be in all scenes, and at what angles they need to be at, at all times during that day.

Planning the Advert Day 2

Day 2 - Planning For Advert

We have confirmed the date to our actors and our crew, they are able to film with us on the 7th of January, so this is good news. We will be meeting after school in Abbie's house in order to shoot all of the scene requires.

We have got the scripts all ready an the plans in order to follow them on the day, so we are all prepared. During our meetings we have discussed everything that we are going to do in order to make the advert. We are all clear of the plans and will be confident to shoot the video, on that day.

Planning the Advert Day 1

Day 1 - Discussing Plans for Filming

Agender- Plan Filming - Story

Martin and Jamie are going to feature without our advert, Martin will be the son whilst Jamie will be the Dad. they will both be in a kitchen, the dad will be advising the son to eat sherries.

They will both go y the script and we will advise then and run through the scene before we film so they are prepared to act. If one of the boys are ill, e have people on stand by as our back up, so this way nothing will stop us from filming.

We intend to film on Thursday the 7th January 2016. We have booked a camera and tripod out just in case our camera doesn't work or if we forget to bring it, this way we are sorted incase of any confusion or even breakage.

When we are filming we are looking at our plans and intensions at the beginning in order to follow the script and plan correctly as we stating and wanted to do in the beginning.