Key Features Of A Magazine Cover.

I have created an image to identify the main features of a magazine cover.

 

 

 

Masthead

A masthead is the title of your magazine and the main title. This is meant to jump out at people so they recognise the name straight away.

 

Main Image

The main image usually tells you more about the main story and is bigger than the rest of the text and other images. It sometimes overlaps the masthead to draw peoples attention.

 

Coverline

The coverline is the main story in  the magazine. Its in a bigger font than the other stories as it is the most important.

 

Sub-heading

The sub-heading tells you more about the main coverline and makes people want to read on.

 

Essential Information

Is things like the date, issue no and price. These are normally in a smaller font as they are not seen as important and people may be put off by the price.

 

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme is very important as its ties the whole front cover in. If there too many colours it may look confusing and unorganised. On the other hand, if there is not a lot of colours then people may not notice it as it wouldn't stand out.



Print 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 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).