Conventions of a school magazine
order - numerically ordered, easy to find what reader wants
informs of contents - tells audience what article's what
headings - used to attract attention of readers
images - used to stop it being boring, also catch readers eye a visual description of what article contains
breif descriptions - breif overveiw of what the article contains
colours - for clarity and attention seeking

Coventions of a college magazine
title - its in the same place and the same font as a re-occurence, this is a focal point in the magazine as it informs the audience of what the magazine contains.
article related picture
subtitles
date
layout

The Brief

The breif...

Preliminary excersize : using DTP and n image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photgraph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriatly laid-out text and a masthead. Additonallyyou must produce a mock-up of the layout of the content page to demonstrate thier grasp of DTP.

Main task...

the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. all images and texts used must be original, produced by you - minimum of 4 images.

Presentation of Work...

the presentation of the reasearch, planning and evaluation can take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following...
A presentation using slideshow sofware such as powerpoint
a blog
a podcast