Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Task Overview

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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

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 to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style) Maximum four members to a group. 



Definitions

Banner - an advertisement or a heading appearing on a website.
Masthead - the title of a newspaper or magazine at the head of the first page.
Kicker - the first sentence or first few words of a story's lead, usually in a larger font size.
Deck - part of the headline which summerisies the story.
Byline - the writers name at the start of a story.

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