Conventions of a Contents Page

All contents page shows the audience/reader the information what the magazine is about. Connotes the brief of the magazine, like a 'key' on a 'map' and such. It doesn't need to be fancy, the important is that it has to be legible to the reader. So that they know what's the magazine going to be about and shows what story or info is on what page.

Conventions of a College Magazine.

The convention of a magazine is that they all have a front cover, title, bold texts, selling lines, cover lines, date of the magazine publishing.
The title/name of the magazine becomes the language and representation to the audience. The front cover image changes all time, as well as cover lines (text) that shows what the magazine is about for this issue, and the date.
However there always have a front cover, title, cover lines and date of issue.

The Brief

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 some appropriately laid-out text and 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 the double page spread of a new music magazine. All the images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Presentation of your work
The presentation on the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of anyone, or the combination of two or more, of the following:

• a presentation using a slide show software such as PowerPoint;
• a blog
• a podcast;