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Desk top publishing and editing your magazine
The front cover, contents page and DPS needs to be complete and uploaded to your website. Photoshop for front cover and InDesign for youyr contents page and DPS. -
Planning the Evaluation
The previous work you have done should help you write the evaluation script. -
Research / case studies of real music magazines (Planning)
You will meed to decide on a genre of music to work with for your magazine project. carry out research into magazine of this genre. -
Preliminary Task: LSC magazine
In this task you will produce pages from a college magazine using Photoshop and InDesign. you need to create a front page and a contents page, and include poriginal photography. -
Audience feedback and evaluation - preliminary task / college magazine
Gather audience comments and feedback on your college magazine. This may be done in class, as a focus group, online via your blog, or on survey monkey or similar. Use the feedback to write your evaluation of your production skills to date. -
Magazine newsstand task / distribution of magazines
Go to a newsstand. this might be a newsagent and / or a supermarket. Have a look at the music magazine titles available, where and how they have been displayed, and anything you notice about the front covers, mastheads, cover lines and images. Take some pictures on your phone and upload them.
Research other magazine distribution methods, especially those which make use of other media technologies. These might include the ways in which musiuc magazines use FB , twitter and others - blog this -
Drafting and finalizing house styles, drafts and layouts
Write your shorr proposal for your magazine. -
Audience research task
evaluate the audience feedback from the picth from focus groups / or survey monkey. Make any changes to your plans as per feedback and clearly signpost changes on your blog. -
Photograph (construction)
you will be shown a DSL camera in the studio to take photgraphs to use in your magazine. take photos and notes and put on your blog -
Audience Research - main task / music magazine
gather audience comments and feedback on your music magazine. -
Creating the evaulation
You will be marked according to how appropiate your chosen technologies are to the presentation of your answer, and how creative / interactive you are, as well as the content of your answers. the evaluation answers need to be uploaded to your blog.