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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Planning Deadlines

16th January: House style
Name of the magazine
A spider diagram contemplating names
A focus group pitching three different names to my target audience
Font of the masthead and throughout the magazine
Choosing a range of suitable fonts for the masthead
Limiting that selection three suitable fonts, which I will then analyse
Choosing one font for the masthead
Choosing a range of suitable fonts for the subheadings and articles
Limiting that selection three suitable fonts, which I will then analyse
Choosing one font for the subheadings and articles
Colour scheme
Looking back at my poll results
Designating where I will use each colour
Concluding what colour scheme I have chosen
Initial layout of front cover, contents page and double page spread on blog
Create and analyse 3 basic layouts, then upload to my blog

23rd January: Front cover
Planning the image
Deciding if my artist featured will be male or female
Discussing the costume of my artist
Deciding on a shot type, by looking at different shot types and analysing
Deciding on a setting, by analysing the pro’s and con’s of different settings
Discussing the positioning of my artist
Discussing the lighting within the image
Planning the placement (of masthead and cover-lines)
Looking at other magazines
Designing three final drafts and analysing
Choosing one final placement
Planning the layering based on your initial layout
Thinking of different ways of layering, based on my magazine research
Draw three final ideas
Analyse each of these ideas via my blog
Deciding the cover-lines
Looking back into my audience research
Looking at other magazines
Deciding different articles that will be in my magazine
Detailed layout of the front cover

30th January: Contents page
Deciding the content
Look back at my research
Spider diagram of ideas
Deciding my final article names, or possible pull quotes
Planning the background
Looking at my past research of other magazines
Deciding on what kind of background will be present
Planning what the background will look like
Planning the image
Detailed layout of the contents page

6th February: Double page spread
Deciding how my article with feature my artist
A spider diagram of different ideas
Looking back at my research
Deciding three main themes/styles
Deciding on one article, discussing its form and intent
Planning the image
Deciding on a shot type, by looking at different shot types and analysing
Deciding on a setting, by analysing the pro’s and con’s of different settings
Discussing the positioning of my artist
Discussing the costume of my artist
Discussing the lighting within the image
Creating a PowerPoint discussing the negatives and positives of different editing techniques
Plan and create a headline and stand-first
Look back at my research
Create a presentation or spider diagram, thinking of different catchy headlines
Pitch these headlines to a focus group
Based on the headlines write three optional stand-first
Choose, with reason, the best stand-first.

10th February:
Take the photographs and analyse
Taking all photographs featured of the artist
Uploading all photographs
Choosing three for each my front cover and contents page to analyse
Choosing my final images to be used
Creating a first draft of my magazine

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