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I wanted to look at the front page of 3 magazines and recorded my findings.
Zoo Magazine
What colours have been used?
Red, white, yellow, orange, black, grey, colour pictures
What is the general colour scheme?
Red, white and black
How pictures are on the cover?
8
What are the pictures of?
4 of girls relating to main articles, 3 footballers, 1 female tv star
How many articles are advertised?
5
What is the main article?
36 page special on naked girls
Where is the main article advertised on the front page?
In the middle, with the photos around it and big letters.
What is the font like?
Big, bold, simple
What is the background?
Red
Other notes?
The orange makes it really stand out.
Star shapes for some features make them stand out.
Uses rhyme for some articles.
Reveal Magazine
What colours have been used?
Pink, white, yellow, blue, purple, black, colour photos
What is the general colour scheme?
Red and white
How many pictures on the cover?
6
What are the pictures of?
4 celebrities, 1 clothing, 1 news
How many articles are advertised?
10
What is the main article?
Two celebrities ‘Body Mania’
Where is the main article advertised on the front page?
Middle, taking up a lot of the page
What is the font like?
Bold, not really varied
What is the background?
Photo’s of the two celebrities i the main article
Other notes?
Some words about main article are highlighted.
Showtime Magazine (children’s)
What colours have been used?
Lots. It’s very colourful
What is the general colour scheme?
All different colours.
How many pictures on the cover?
11
What are the pictures of?
Children’s tv characters
How many articles are advertised?
9
What is the main article?
A story
Where is the main article placed?
A little lower and to the right of the middle
What is the font like?
Big, simple, bold, red and white
What is the background?
All different
Other notes?
Not a lot of writing
Very smiley and bright
Jam packed
Free toy guitar
Introduction to Media: Timeline Activity
1. First of all, before logging onto any websites take a guess at how old you think the media is.
I think that the media had been around as long as humans have. Even before technology such as computers and radios, people could have used very basic ways to present media such as using their own voice.
2. When was the ‘Diamond Sutra’ printed?
11 May AD 868
Although it isn’t the earliest printed book we have found, the Diamond Sutra is the oldest to have a date on it. It is written in Chinese and is one of the most sacred texts of the Buddhist faith. Towards the end of the scroll, Subhuti (an elderly disciple) asks the Buddha what the sutra should be called. In which his reply is, ‘The Diamond of Transcendent Wisdom’ because its teaching will cut like a diamond blade through worldly illusion to illuminate what is real and everlasting.
3. Who mastered the printing technique of ‘casting and setting’? When?
Ayman Omar who lived in the years of (1596-1661)
4. When did William Caxton patent his printing press?
William Caxton (1415~1422-March 1492) was born in Kent. He was a merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. Caxton was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England.
5. What was the name of the first text he published and when was it published?
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
1473
6. What was the first text printed in English and when?
7. When was the first English newspaper published?
2nd December 1620
‘Namloos’ was an English language newspaper that was published in Amsterdam
8. When was the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays published?
1623
The ‘First Folio’ was the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It had 900 pages and 36 plays. It was called ‘Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies’.
The editors of the folio were William’s colleagues, John Hemminge and Henry Condell, and it was printed and published by William Jaggard and his son Isaac with Ed. Blount.
There were only about 500 copies made which were sold for £1 each. Approximately 238 known copies exist today, a third are in the Shakespeare Folger Library in Washington.
9. When was the BBC established?
18th October 1922
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was found in 1922 and made a publicly funded corporation 5 years later.
It was founded by a group of telecommunications companies and is now the largest broadcasting company in the world.
10. When was the first tabloid newspaper established and what was the name of the paper?
1903
Daily Mirror
Alfred Hamsworth developed the Daily Mirror in London. Not only was it the first tabloid newspaper, but it also started the notion of ‘exclusive’ interviews. The first interview was in 1905 with Lord Minto, the new Viceroy of India.
11. When was the first typewriter invented and by whom?
12. Who invented the modern computer and when?
Konrad Zuse
1941
Konrad Zuse started off as a construction engineer for the Henschel Aircraft Company in Berlin. He made a series of calculators to help with engineering calculations. The Z3 was made in 1941 and had almost all the features you’d find in a modern computer.
13. Who invented the first camera and when?
Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham)
Around 1000 on the Gregorian calendar
Alhazen invented the pinhole camera and explained why the photo is upside down. However Della Porta reinvented it around 1600. People incorrectly credit him with the invention of the pinhole camera when actually he was the first European to publish any information on it.
14. When was the first gramophone invented?
1187
The first gramophone was patented by Emile Berliner.
15. Which company launched the first CD player and when?
Sony
1st October 1982
When Sony released the first CD player, CDD-101, it was on the market at a retail price of $900.
16. When was the first VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) invented?
1971
17. When was the DVD invented?
18. What was the first film with sound and when was it filmed?
The Jazz Singer
October 1927
The first known projected sound films happened in 1900, but sound couldn’t be synchronized reliably.
Sound films that had synchronized dialogue were known as ‘talking pictures’ or ‘talkies’. The Jazz Singer was the first full feature length movie originally presented as a sound film.
19. When was the first commercial radio station?
20. What was the first advertisement on commercial television and when was it shown?
Bulova Watch Company
14:29 1st July 1941
Bulova Watch Company paid $9 to have a 20 second slot aired before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The advert was a Bulova watch over a map of the United States with a voice over of the company’s slogan ‘America runs on Bulova time’
21. When was breakfast television launched?
1950
The first breakfast television show was a local one in Philadelphia called ‘Three To Get Ready’ (named that because it was on channel 3). Because it was so successful it encouraged NBC to do something similar but on a national basis.
When NBC launched the world’ first network television breakfast programme ‘Today’ on 14th January 1952, it sparked channels all over the world to start doing there own breakfast television shows.
Breakfast television is a live news and entertainment programme usually around 6.00am and 10.00am.
22. Do you know wish to adjust your answer to question 1?
No, but I have learnt a lot and didn’t realised how long some of the forms of media had been around.
I made SMART targets for this project that I will follow each step when making my magazine.
1. Research Magazines that targeted at
(a) Male
(b) Female
(c) Children
2. Write up front page analysis
3. Write up contents page analysis
4. Be trained on Photoshop
5. Look at fonts on Photoshop
6. Plan titles for magazine
7. Plan articles for magazine
8. Make mock up layout for front page
9. Make first mock up for front page
10. Make drafts for front page
11. Make final front page
For this particular task I will be following this brief:
I will use desktop publishing and Photoshop to create a front page and contents for a college magazine. This will also include a medium-close photo, a masthead and appropriately laid out text
To get to this point I will have to research magazine content and layout. I will also do planning for my magazine and make mock ups.
