KEY TERMS: COVERLINES, AIDA, INDEX, PAGE NUMBERS, INTEREST, INFORMATION, ENTERTAINMENT, ATTRACTION
Research and planning the layout
Compare and contrast some real contents pages – what do you notice that is similar among them all? Use the real magazines in class.
Menu/Ingredients
- Editors hello
- Page numbers
- Hyperbole and superlatives in headlines
- Images and word clues
- Graphic illustrations and designs
- Reminder of the magazine’s name and mission statement
It will also contain some photos that relate to the listed articles / features.
SOME INSPIRATION
Use some of the ideas in the ‘Headline Grabbers‘ post to craft some intriguing, exciting, captivating captions and cover lines. And see the previous blog post for coverlines for your front page.
TASKS FOR THE POST
Research, evidence and practice laying out a contents page. Then reflect on the purpose of a contents page, the technical conventions (insets, captions, index, page numbers, coverlines etc).
- 1 x slide of inspirational contents pages.
- Hand drawn draft layouts x 3
- 5 x catchy headlines. Commentary and reflection Technical conventions of a contents page and an overview of the reason behind them.
- 5 x catchy headlines. commentary and reflection Technical conventions of a contents page and an overview of the reason behind them.