Thursday, 29 September 2011


Peter Hook of Joy Division told NME why the band went with Factory records for their first album, despite a £70,000 offer from Genetic Records. "Rob Gretton [manager] thought that taking us dickheads out of Manchester and putting us in a big London studio might mean that we ended up losing control over everything. He felt that it would be better to do it with Tony Wilson and Factory to keep us as we were - grounded."

- ''JOY DIVISION 30 YRS OF UNKNOWN PLEASURES 1979 - 2009''this is the screamer because it entices you to the magazines but also tells you what it's about.

- ''The Barcode'' is situated at the right side of the magazine cover

- ''The price'' is underneath the masthead

- ''Images'' is of Ian Curtis to show what the magazine is about

- ''NME'' is the masthead

- ''Colour scheme'' is black and white which links to this issue being about Joy Division

- ''ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL'' is the splash

- ''Exclusive interview inside with the band'' is both the sell line, teaser and splash.

- ''NME'' ''JOY DIVISION 30 YEARS OF UNKNOWN PLEASURES 1979-2009'' are all situated on the left third so that when the magazine is on the shelf people can see exactly what they are buying and the main features in the magazine.

- ''Blur reunited live, New gossip album, Glas Vegas play Las Vegas..etc'' these are the screamers to further persuade and appeal to people the buy the magazine.

Conventions of the front page of a magazine.

Left third: Graphics that take up the left third of the screen. The masthead and sell lines are both placed in this third so when the magazine is on a magazine shelf you can see the name of the it and the stories that will feature in the magazine.

Mast head title piece: it's the name of the magazine, usually placed in the left third section of the magazine in the top corner.

Cover lines: A caption on a magazine cover.

Bar code: Read electronically and decoded into usable information.

Price: Magazine cost.

Date: Weekly: usually from Saturday to Friday. Monthly: a month ahead.

Issue number: A tally of magazines

Teaser: One word/Phrase acts as an attention grabber.

Main Feature: Headline: A phrase that may summarise 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 summarise the feature.

Smaller feature: Features included in the magazine

Images: Size: CU to med CU. Ranges from one main image to x amount featuring 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.

Splash: The full image on the front of a magazine is called a splash.

Credit: Who wrote the article

Kicker: The kicker is a short phrase found set above the headline. Usually set in a smaller type than the headline

Teller: Like a sub-heading

Skyline: Line above the masthead

Graphology: The handwriting

Anchorage: News story.

Vocabulary: The words used on/in the magazine

Screamers: Screamers appear on the front page, because the idea is to entice consumers into buying the newspaper or magazine to read what's inside.

The Brief

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 and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.