Magazine breif

Brief

Create a front cover and double page feature article for a new specialist culture magazine to promote your artist or band to the target audience.  Length: 3 pages

Essential elements - front cover

• Original title and masthead for the magazine; strapline 
• Cover price and barcode 
• Main cover image to establish the identity of the new artist or band 
• Main cover line relating to the new artist or band plus at least 2 further cover lines 

Essential elements - double page feature article

• Feature article (approximately 300 words) to promote the new artist or band. The article should include an interview with the artist or band. 
• Headline and stand-first, sub-headings, columns 
• One main image and at least 2 smaller/smaller/minor images (all original and different from the images on the cover)
• Pull quotes and/ or sidebar

In order to achieve an 'A' grade, you must demonstrate the following over both pieces of the cross-media production

• Use media language to demonstrate intertextuality and/or generic hybridity
• Convey a complex representation of a social group using media language
• Subvert and challenge typical representational stereotypes
• Present an ideological context typical to an independent music label
• Create a magazine that demonstrates clear stylistic, thematic and ideological links to your music video 

Your coursework is marked in exactly the same way as your essays are marked – through your expert use of media language. Just so you're absolutely clear, this is what I am going to be looking for when assessing your magazine:

• Codes and conventions 
• Layout and design
• Composition - positioning of masthead/headlines, cover lines, images, columns 
• Font size, type, colour 
• Images/photographs - shot type, angle, focus
• Mise-en-scene – colour, lighting, location, costume/dress, hair/makeup 
• Graphics, logos 
• Language – headline, sub-headings, captions – mode of address
• Copy 
• Anchorage of images and text
• Elements of narrative