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1. Unit 51 Page Layout and Design
Production Commentary

2. Slide 1: Design Programmes
• Give details about which programmes you
have used to carry out your:
• Design work
• Word processing work

3. Slide 2: FORMATS
• Give details of the media FORMAT you have
used.
• Give examples of existing media texts that you
analysed in your product research, supported
by images

4. Slide 3: Conventions & Visual Language
• Explain the GENRE conventions that you have
used on your front cover and double page
spread
• Explain use of The Gutenberg Principle in your
finished designs, supported by images
• Explain the connotations of colours and fonts
used and how they suggest genre or attitudes
and tones

5. Slide 4: Audience
• Define the target audience for your magazine
in terms of:
• Age
• Gender
• Social status
• Describe how your magazine meets the needs
of your target audience, supported by images

6. • Add this finished POWERPOINT as PR 11 along
with your finished design work