Magazine Terminology

1. MASTHEAD - the title/logo of a newspaper/magazine at the head of the first or editorial page.
2. THE LEAD - the introduction to a text, often in a bold font or capital letters to attract audiences.
3. BODY COPY - the main article of text.
4. SERIF FONT - a font that has small bars at the end of each letter.
5. SANS SERIF FONT - a font that does not have any serifs.
6. DROP CAPITALS - an incredibly larger letter at the start of a text.
7. CROSS HEAD - a small sub-heading that divides two bodies of text.
8. WHITE SPACE - white space on the magazine other than the pictures/texts.
9. MODE OF ADDRESS - how the magazine addresses it's audience.
10. SELL LINES - a motto for the magazine.
11. BANNER - text that stands out on the magazine.
12. HOUSE STYLE - trademark layout of the magazine.
13. BOARDERS - gaps at end of each page.
14. GUTTERS - two pages meeting the middle with no text.
15. LEADING - the gaps between the lines of text in the magazine.
16. KERNING - the space between the letters in the magazine.
17. STRAPLINES - a secondary header below the main headline.
10. BYLINES - credits to everyone involved in the making of that issue of the magazine.
19. ANCHORAGE - when text and images are relevant to each other.

PhotoShop

PhotoShop is a graphics editing program developed and published by American multinational computer software company Adobe. PhotoShop allows the user to alter images, often used to correct flawed photos that contain problems, such as red eye or spots, by removing these problems in effective ways with the photos maintaining their natural look in the process.
An example of a tool that you are able to use on PhotoShop would be the Spot Removal tool that can edit things such as spots of people's faces or graffiti in the background of a photo. An example of Spot Removal that I have done in the past would be:

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InDesign

InDesign is a desktop publishing software application, created by the American multinational computer software company Adobe. It can be used to create and publish several pieces of work such as posters, newspapers, books and magazines (the topic for our coursework). The features of the software allow us to create a professional-looking magazine, these features including gutters, orphans and widows, wide varieties and text formats among us.

Mock-ups of Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

Organisation of Costumes and Props

After studying how many indie musicians dress to use conventions for my magazine, I noted that many musicians that are focused in indie/alternative music and their fans have similar dress codes such as leather jackets, jumpers and skinny jeans, as these particular outfits look stylish, cool and represents the music genre itself very well. As a result, I got my cover model to dress in these items of clothing to appear representative, relatable and appealing to my target audience. As well as this, I got some of my other models featured in the magazine to dress formally, so as to give my magazine a more sophisticated look.
I used musical instruments relevant to my genre such as keyboards and drums in my magazine to make my magazine seem professional as well as relate it to conventions used in many magazines of the same genre.

Organisation of Locations

In making my magazine, I wanted my locations to be diverse and varied, so I used locations both out in the open and closed off inside. For my shots taken for my cover model, I used outside locations to differentiate my model from the other models featured in my magazine, as well as to signify that my model doesn't care what anyone else thinks and that he feels free in his career and life. For my other models featured in the magazine, I used closed off locations such as music studios to establish that my models are rooted in music, as well as to establish that they enjoy what they do and are happiest when playing music.

Organisation of Actors

On the front cover of my final media product, my cover model is shown to be sitting on the top of a climbing frame, looking up. This may be seen as quite puzzling and confusing to my audience of why this is included on my front cover. However, there is actually a deep meaning of the picture I will explain. The picture is quite symbolic towards the name of my magazine, "Uprising", in that it shows my cover model rising to the top of this climbing frame, looking determined as he looks upwards, hinting to the audience that he has high aspirations and is motivated to achieve them. As well as this, the character that my cover model is portrayed as is described throughout my final product as an "upcoming, increasingly popular, indie musician". This coupled with the character's stage name "The Maze", with him being said to trap people with his music, may hint to the audience that the picture is also symbolic of the character's status and reputation becoming more well-known, with the him climbing the frame representing this.

Another thing that I wanted to show throughout my magazine was the positivity of my music genre, which is why on my Contents Page, I feature two of my actors playing musical instruments and looking like they are gaining enjoyment from this. By doing this, this makes it appear that my actors gain joy from what they do, as well as the indie music genre. Because of this, it makes the audience respect the musicians more and shows the positive side of the indie genre, something not seen in many magazines similar today.