Conventions of Magazine Layout

Masthead title piece:  The magazine's title. Usually displayed in the top left corner.
Price: Magazine cost.
Date: Weekly - usually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly - a month ahead.
Issue Number: A tally of magazines.
Barcode: Read electronically and decoded into usable information.
Teaser (Coverline): One word/phrase acts as an attention grabber.
Main feature - Headline:  A phrase that may summerise the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader.
Subtitle: Smaller headline that may summerise the feature.
Smaller Feature: Features included in the magazine.
Images: Size - CU to Medium CU. Ranges from one main image to x amount feautring one main image and smaller images. Helps make the page look more interesting. It can add understanding of a story and/or entice someone to read the magazine.
Font: Style and size of type face.
Colour: Specific/stylistic/thematic types.
Graphics: Graphical shapes to highlight feature(s).
Offers/Adverts Blurb: Banner-style shape featuring free products/promotions.
Left Third: Placing important headlines/text on the left hand side of the cover.
Sell Lines: Promotion for the product, like a slogan. e.g. 'Men's Mag of the Year'.
Splash/Flash: Graphic techniques that make something look as though splashed/flashed on the page.
Credit: Photo credit.
Kicker: Leads to story. Draws readers in.
Teller: Explanation to the Kicker.
Skyline: Banner usually across the top of the cover.
Graphology: Art of using graphics including design and placement of graphics.
Anchorage: Photo explantion (caption).
Vocabulary: Relevant words for magazine.
Screamers: Headlines that would be verbally screamed.

Preliminary Brief

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 their grasp of DTP.