24/01/2011. Media Lesson

For the lesson today we learnt all about magazine front covers. I gained more understanding about the placing of the things on the front page, why they are there and their purpose. i also learnt about the names of the things in the front page. Things such as;

• Masthead; the name and title of the magazine
• Dateline; the month and year. Sometimes issues number and price is with it to
• Main Image; the picture on the front cover. There should only be one on the main page
• Main Cover Line; takes up 1/4 of the front page. It promotes the main feature/ story of the magazine.
• Coverlines; other stories within the magazine.
• Bar Code. This is obvious. has to be accessible for the shop worker.
• Selling Line; short description of the magazines main marketing point.

After gaining this understanding we took an example of a magazine cover and analysed it. We also incldued the audince profile for the magazine. Here is my work;