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AS Media
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Planning the project a production schedule:
Produce a schedule for the foundation portfolio to help you organise your time for the project. -
Research / case studies of real magazines (Planning)
A) Textual analysis, Images :(shot type, framing, mise-en-scene including lighting, costume, props,make up). Convention of page layout: font choices, margins, textbox, dropcaps,relationship between image and text, captions,pull quote. Language used in journalistic copy: tone, mode of address, structure. Genre elelements and representation:which group stars, subcultures and genres and how? Consider locations and props, costumes, language... make sure you use (denotation/connotation) -
Research/ case studies of a real music magazines (Planning)
b) Audience and institution. Who are the audeince for the magazine?
Secondary audience research: look at the press pack / media kit for each magazine and annotate include a screen shot.
Who publishes the magazine? Get some information about these institutions, the other productsthey publish and cross - media interests they have. NO cut and paste from Wikipedia / similar -
Preliminary Task: LSC magazine (Planning)
In this task you will produce pages from a collge magazine using PhotoShop and InDesign.You will need to create a front page and contents page, and include original photography. Include the following:
Front cover: a medium close-up (MCU) of a student, text such as teasers and coverlines, a masthead, date, issue number, bar code, price / free (PhotoShop)
Contents page: sections, images, number pages, editor's letter( InDesign).