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Planning the project: production schedule
Your first task is to produce a production schedule for the Foundation Portfolio, to help you organize your time for the project. Use the dates and tasks on this assignment brief to help you and publish the schedule on your blog so you can refer to it regularly. -
Research / case studies (individual work)
Once you are organized into a group, you will need to decide on a genre of music to work with for your magazine project. Carry out research into magazines of this genre. The purpose of this task is to help you understand about the layout, content and generic conventions of magazines. Analyse the front cover, contents page and a double page spread(DPS) feature of two magazines. -
Preliminary Task: LSC magazine (individual work)
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 original photography. -
Audience feedback and evaluation- preliminary task / college magazine (individual work)
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 an evaluation of your production skills to date. -
Magazine newsstand task
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 phone and upload them. Write up your findings on your blog. Research other magazine distribution methods, especially those which make use of other media technologies. -
Drafting and finalizing house styles, drafts and layouts (group / individual)
Do a formal pitch, using Powerpoint or Prezi. Pitch your proposal, house style, draft and layouts. How did your case studies of professional music magazines help you with your ideas and design? Record the feedback from the audience from focus groups and / or survey monkey or similar. -
Audience research task
Evaluate the audience feedback from the pitch from focus groups and / or survey monkey. -
Planning and shooting (individual work)
Use the SLR camera in the studio to take photographs to use in your music magazine. You should also start to shoot on location. For location shoots you can borrow a college digital camera, or use your own cameras. You need to plan and book any shoots, using a photography call sheet and booking forms. -
Construction: Desk top publishing and editing your music magazine (individual work)
The front cover, contents page and DPS needs to be complete and uploaded to your website -
Audience research- main task / music magazine
Gather audience comments and feedback on your music magazine. This may be done in class, as a focus group, and/ or online via survey monkey. -
Evaluation