Level 4 Criteria.

From looking at past AS students Level 4 Magazines I can identify that they have used many different aspects to achieve their grade.  They have used brightly coloured titles and large bold fonts for them to stand out and the pictures used are relative to the stories. For example, the “Drowned In Sound” pictures have been selected purposely for the mise-en-scene of the magazine and for the mood from what they want the audience to see and feel, the pictures have been manipulated to the context of the magazine by using ICT appropriately to the task they have been set. The lighting they used was bright to go with the mood of the front page. They have also used appropriately integrating illustration and text in all the front page, double page spread and contents page. They have showed understanding of the conventions and layout of all the page designs keeping it all very formal and running the same theme throughout.

From looking at the planning of my magazine, I think that I have the potential to achieve a Level 4 for my proposed magazine if I think particularly about the ideas of my photography and the range of different shot types so that they are not all the same, they all also have to be relevant. I have thought about the mise-en-scene of my photographs for my magazine as taking photos in a background with un-related things to my audience would not appeal and also not look as good as it would, this is why I chose to take all the photographs with a blank background behind. The language that I have planned is relevant because I haven’t used words that the target audience would not understand and have used relative words that they would know and use themselves. My layout will have to follow my conventions and the range of suitable fonts would have to be a wide variety as using the same would be boring and not attract the reader’s attention and would probably not want to read on more.