Level 2 Unit 5/14 - Codes & Conventions for Magazine DPS

Codes & Conventions of Magazine Double Spread Page from Namra Imran

Level 3 Unit 6: Codes and Conventions - Website

General info for codes and conventions of websites:

Website Codes and Conventions from John DF




Codes and conventions > Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.


Linguistic > Language - the way it is written for its purpose/audience. E.g. Mode of address.


Visual > Layout, images, colours, etc.


Symbolic > Logos, images, signs and symbols which makes the website stand out with it's purpose and target audience.

Level 3 Unit 6: Media Products and their Audiences - Websites

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Level 3 Unit 6 - Media Products and their Audiences - Websites

Construction of content (narratives, layout, captions, anchorage)




Narratives continued....

Level 2 Unit 4 & 15 Analysing digital publishing products and writing

L3 BTEC Unit 23 Multi Camera Production clips & pics live shoots

Level 2 Unit 13 - Desktop graphics techniques

Tom's demonstration of desktop graphic techniques required for Unit 13: Graphic Design for Digital Media.

Task 3A: Creating desktop graphics

• vector shape tools
• text wrap
• text tools
• picture boxes
• text box
• columns
• transform tools
• page arrangements
• master page
• importing primary images, e.g. from scanners, digital cameras and video
• pixel (image resolution)
• compression: lossy, lossless
• types of digital graphic, e.g. raster, bitmap, vector
• output, e.g. print, screen, worldwide web
• File extensions, e.g. bmp, png, gif, tif, jpg, psd, ai, pdf, indd.

REMEMBER to take screenshots or use 'snipping tool' - save these images as evidence for using these techniques. 

You will also address/annotate your finished product highlighting these techniques.