TASK 6: COLLAGE: Use found images from the Internet to make a collage of
iconic front covers and images from magazines for your chosen genre.
Comment on how these could link to your own video.
TASK 3: CONVENTIONS: Research the key conventions of current affairs magazines. Consider the design, layout, types of articles. You could use the Big Issue Powerpoint and the Big Issue Cover Guide to help you pick out key conventions. like the big issue did the week and the econimist The Week Image: Consists of illustations of normally a few people behaving abnormally. The person or thing on the front cover is the main focus of the page. The text speaks to the image but sometimes does intrude on it, it helps add contect. No matteer who the person or thing is, the image is bold, striking and attention grabbing. The illistration is well lit, the background is either plain or uncluttered, with the focus around the main image. The image on the cover can really sell the issue so getting a sense of that person's personality or the way they are being portrayed. The most important aspect of this cover style is to help engage the readers with the a glance. Illustration...
https://gal-dem.com/ Essential ingredients of a magazine cover: Magazine title on masthead Image (or images) Price Date (sometimes issue number) Barcode Coverlines Sometimes a logo Sometimes a slogan Web address Essential ingredients of a website homepage: Magazine title in same font/logo/colour as magazine Subscribe button Search bar Menu bar Text explaining the purpose of the website/magazine Social media icons: twitter, Instagram, facebook Links to magazine articles A range of original images to illustrate every article
TASK 10: TYPICAL SYNOPSIS: Take 2 different current affairs magazines and write a paragraph summarising the main stories and issues covered in each. What ideas do they give you for your own magazine? The Big Issue Main stories Poverty --> Marcus Rashford, Emma Thompson and more urge PM to review free school meal Celebrities teamed up with more than 40 charities and education experts to demand government action on the food system failing pupils. Written a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanding action on the free school meals system which has “lurched from one crisis to another”. Disadvantaged children already disproportionately impacted by Covid-19 should not “continue to bear the brunt” of the pandemic, the letter said. Ride out recession alliance --> Will the 48-hour working week be scrapped? The Government has insisted it has "absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights" The Financial Times reported worker pr...
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