Article introduction examples

Article introduction examples for my magazine article:

Shock/Horror intro with Questioning the reader: Research concludes that 2/3 children have witnessed or been a victim of cyber bullying! Is your child one of these and can you help?

Quote intro:  "I text about 250 times a day" says a young girl at a local high school!

Anecdote/shock/horror intro: 15 year old Amanda Todd life ended after being brought into drug and alcohol abuse through cyber bullying. Read the shocking story here!

First, second and third person narrative examples

1st/2nd person informal, range of youth/northern language

Most of you lads and lasses probably know of the dangers that are on social networking sites like Facebook. But do you know ways to stop these dangers from happenin to you? It's pretty simple like, and really quick to do. One way to stop those creepers is by restricting the amount of information you give out about you, not every one wants to know your home address love. By doin this you can stop them creepers from findin out too much about you. Another way to keep your ass safe is by making sure you don't give out too much information while you banter with your mates, I know some lads who are stupid enough that they could give out their bank details during a good online banter. So i'm sure you will be fine with your mate not knowing every little thing about you.

3rd person formal, use of longer sentences and more educated language, use of facts and figures.

One of the biggest threats for todays youth is something which no-one would of expected, after a study conducted by PEW research centre which concluded that more then two thirds of people aged 12-22 have been bullied or witnessed some form of bullying through social networking sites. This is a relatively new type of bullying which occurs online called "cyber bullying" and can consist of many different forms of bullying from simple name calling to disgusting death threats.

I am most likely to be using a 1st/2nd person informal narrative within my magazine, as it appeals to a younger audience due to the casual nature of the writing, this will make the audience relate to and be entertained by the text within the magazine more, thus successfully applying my magazine to the target audience's preferences.

In-Design work

This is my first attempt at using the in-design program which we will be using later on to create our final magazine project, in this first time i was practicing adding images, adding text, text manipulation, text wrapping around images and text wrapping around text boxes

I added images on in-design by creating an image box the size i wanted the image and placed the image inside, the only problem with this is that you cannot edit the image on the program itself, so i had to crop it down to the right size on photoshop first before placing it into the image box.
I added text by creating text boxes within the designated areas where i wanted to place text, i then pasted some text into the box and linked the text boxes together so the texted followed onto each next box.
i could manipulate this text using the toolbar at the top of the software, this allowed me to change the colour of the writing, size of the writing and also allowed me to add special word art effects onto the titles of the draft, i could also manipulate the text within a text box by using the same tool bar or by control clicking the box this allowed me to put specific text with different coloured background, for example in the quote box i used a lighter shade of black.
Text wrapping was one of the harder tasks to perform as the way the text is wrapped is often awkward making it hard to manipulate correctly, but after a few tries i learnt how to do it correctly, through the use of the same toolbar which manipulates text boxes i can wrap other text around it, for example on the quote box, i made sure the text moved around the box rather then overlapping or going under the quote box. I also did the same to the large image on the right side of the magazine draft which allowed the text to freely wrap around the image.
Lastly i used the anchor link tool to allow me to edit the image on the right, the tool allowed me to cut out specific parts of the image, i did it to get rid of a white background the image had and also to smooth the image out all together and allow it to fit into the magazine draft better. i used the tool by selecting a variety of lines to which i used to accurately cut around the image, i felt this tool was hard to use but after a few tries i got used to it.

The colour scheme of what i will use in my actual magazine will be very similar to these displayed in this work, the use of black, white and red will be used often as my images will be using a mix of high and low key lighting, so the black and white colours match the lighting on the images.

†he font i have used for the text does not exactly match the desired font which i would like to use on my final product, but i will be making sure to use a sans serif font style as it tends to appeal to a younger target audience and makes the text more informal and casual. But i want to change the positioning for some of the text on the DPS and add a break out box for additional text.

The images used within this design work do not accurately represent what i want to have in my final product as i was just learning how to insert and manipulate the images within this example, instead i wish to have my images with a range of camera shots such as a mix between close ups and medium long shots, i also wish to position the images in a different position on the DPS.