Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger

this youtube video showed me how to start up using the blog.

10/12/2010 - The first day of my blog.

Today i was getting to grips with how to use the blog and trying different things to make my blog look the way i wanted it to look. I learnt how to make posts and to upload jpeg photos onto my blog. Next lesson i hopefully will be adding more of my work that i have already done onto my blog and get on with editing the appearance of it to the way i want it to look. :)

This is my final design for my front cover. I applied a technique of the lines forming in the image to make it look more professional. I also used indesign for my front cover and the fonts i used are to grab the readers attention and i believe that the word success for my title is a very appropriate title.

Flatplan for my front cover.

Preliminary Exercise

AS Media – Preliminary Exercise

·      Who are you aiming your magazine at specifically? I am aiming my magazine at students who attend college from the age 16 upwards.

·      What will your magazine be about? My magazine will contain information about learning, and things that are going on around college, informing students about the new things coming to college as well.

·      What are your ideas for cover lines? Student monthly, Pursuit to success, college life, etc.

·      What fonts do you want to use? I will be using fonts that will attract the readers attention, for example on my front cover I will have san-serif writing so it stands out more. The front cover will contain more urban fonts, so that it attracts the students attention, for example I could use arial black.

·      What are your ideas for taglines? I will probably use the taglines for interviews with students and informing students about new things going on so they will want to read the inside.

·      What kind of image do you expect do you expect to put on the front cover and how will you go about getting this image? I have been round college and taken many digital photos of people around college, but I expect to have a image that will make everything think it is a good magazine, and stereotypically for students who have college lives.

·      How frequently would it be published? Monthly.

·      What are the dimensions of the cover?

·      What images/colour would you use on the contents page? Unisex colours, not colours that will attract one gender more than the other, also I will probably use images of the college and people in college.

Media Front Cover Questions

Media Front Cover – Mollie Beale

 Student Magazine Title Task

What might a magazine for students here be called?

Pursuit to Success

Oh Happy College Days

College Life

La Vida De Estudiantes

What terms carry connotations of successful learning?

Achieve

Succeed

Cover lines and Language Use

Declaratives – She loves to learn (making a statement)

Imperatives – Learn That Knowledge (making orders or requests)

Interrogatives – Will you succeed? (asking questions)

Exclamatives – Learn! (expressing surprise)

Linguistic Tools

Rhyme – Learn, yearn, turn, burn.

Alliteration – Learn, love, life, live, lecturers

Assonance – Gay Mates

Superlative – The ultimate