Magazine Production

This week is all about magazine design - developing your front cover!

Here's the mark scheme:  
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;

• showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

• showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

• accurately using language and register;

• using ICT appropriately for the task set;

• appropriately integrating illustration and text;

• shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;

• manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.

 As you design, take screen shots (command, shift, 3) of your work and post these with a short commentary which explains what you're doing and why you're doing it. 

Top tips
1. Explain / justify your design choices by making links back to your research (audience / genre).
2. Analyse your magazine design in terms of it's use of generic conventions and the suitability of those for your target audience.
3. Use key magazine terminology: brand identity, mode of address, house style, coverlines, puff / pug, colour palette, spalsh, connotation....etc.

By Wednesday you should be ready to get some audience feedback on your front page. 


 

Two very good blogs so far....

If you want to know what level four research & planning looks like so far this year have a look at Alice's and Amy's blogs.

http://alicegodding.blogspot.co.uk/

http://amysasmediablog1.blogspot.co.uk/

Some really fantastic work - well done!

The Research & Planning Mark Scheme

 A/ B: Level 4 16–20 marks

Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is excellent. 

This is a Level 4 research and planning blog from last year:

http://alicesasmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/

You will have to work backwards with the blog - look at the oldest posts first.

It should give you a clear sense of the posts that you need to complete in order to meet level 4 criteria!

 

Blog Checklist

You should have the following posts:

Introduction to main task & action plan

Initial ideas post

Analysis of 2 X front covers

Analysis of 2 X contents pages

Analysis of 2 X double page spread

Pitch

Pitch feedback & summary of findings

Time Management update

Research of chosen subgenre

Style sheet

Main Coursework Task

The Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Work Flow

Date	Content	Tasks to complete
5 Nov	·         Introduction to main task ·         Initial ideas for music magazine ·         Creating pitch for magazine idea ·         Research of chosen subgenre	1.       Introduce main task and post action plan on blogs 2.       Post initial ideas for magazine on blogs 3.       Develop & complete pitch 4.       Post half term h-work on blogs (analyse 2X front covers, 2 contents pages, 2 double page articles) 5.       If completed post the institution research that we worked on in class before half term 6.       Complete further research of chosen sub genre
12 Nov	·         Present pitch & get audience feedback ·         Further audience research ·         Focus on photography	1.       Post pitch & audience feedback on blogs 2.       Gain more audience research 3.       Begin to take photos for magazine pages 4.       Complete mock-ups of magazine pages
19 Nov	·         Indesign / photoshop  training ·         Designing front cover	1.       Develop front cover: experimentation with layout,  colour, font, language, photos 2.       Post photo shoot on blog
26 Nov	·         Designing front cover ·         Audience feedback on front cover	1.       Develop front cover design 2.       Gain audience feedback on front cover 3.       Make adjustments to magazine design in response to feedback 4.       Complete draft content for double page article
3 Dec	·         Designing contents page ·         Audience feedback on contents page	1.       Develop front cover: experimentation with layout,  colour, font, language, photos 2.       Make adjustments to magazine design in response to feedback
10 Dec	·         Designing double page spread ·         Audience feedback on double page spread	1.       Develop front cover: experimentation with layout,  colour, font, language, photos 2.       Make adjustments to magazine design in response to feedback
17 Dec	·         Finalise magazine design ·         Introduce evaluation	1.       Finalise design of all pages 2.       Begin draft evaluation
24 Dec	Christmas holiday	Draft Evaluation
31 Dec
7 Jan	·         Evaluation	1.       Develop evaluation
14 Jan	·         Evaluation ·         Final blog check	1.       Complete evaluation 2.       Final blog check
FINAL DEADLINE: 18 JANUARY 2013