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1. Unit 51 Page Layout and Design
Production Commentary

2. Slide 1: Design Programmes
• For my picture and formatting work I used Photoshop and also templates from
Moodle so that I could line up my words and columns so it would look like an
authentic magazine and not just a word document, I also used Photoshop to also
alter my images I changed the colour saturation to manipulate the pictures so that
they looked like something more out of a magazine.

3. Slide 2: FORMATS
I took a pretty standard format when it comes to rugby league magazines they all have
a main story then two or three small side articles to complete the front cover
normally the main picture on the front of the magazine is related to a double page
interview on the inside and this is what will persuade the customer to engage in
reading also the colour and writing on front of the magazine is related to the team or
player on the front of the cover. I also tried to keep to the writing style the same which
is small tight articles talking about your opinion and then a sit down interview with
either a player or a coach.

4. Slide 3: Conventions & Visual Language
Here is the primary optical
area this is where you will
see the title of the
publication and also possibly
a monthly notification of
which edition it is and also a
magazine slogan
This is the weak fallow area
here is the end of the
magazine and normally just
wraps it up with things such
as the barcode and price
The strong fallow area is where
your main image will start and
also will be where there will be
an indication of the main story
for the month which is about
London this month.
Here is where you normally will see
sub stories that will gain readers
interest these surround the main
story and are dotted around the front
cover

5. My double page follows convention of the rugby league magazines from the way it is
formatted to the chatty style of the writing with a mixture of interviewing and opinion based
writing in order to keep to the convention used normally I split the page into two and kept
one side the more informative and formal interview and then on the other side a more
chatty opinion based piece, the colours I used are always the same as the club that is the
main feature of the magazine so this is something I kept by having my Main colour in blue as
that is the main colour of the London Broncos.

6. Slide 4: Audience
Because my magazine is a specific sport based magazine there is no real specific
gender range just a magazine for people are interested in the sport the age range is
for an older contingent as there are less images and its more about the in depth
writing and the social class is D to B because normally those are people that go to the
games.
I feel my article and the cover meet the audience needs as it covers a wide variety of
subjects from images and one on one interviews to discussions from experts within
the game.