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Planning The Project: Production Schedule
First task is to produce the production schedule for the Foundation Portfolio, to help me organize my time for the project. -
Research/ case studies (Planning)
Get two music magazines and evaluate it. Talk about
- Image
- Covections of page layout
- Language
- Genre
- Secondary audience research
- who publishes the magazine? -
Preliminary Task: LSC magazine (Planning)
Produce pages for a college magazine.
Create a front page and a contents pge.
Include original photography -
Audience feedback and evaluation - preliminary task/ college magazine (Planning)
Get feedback on my college magazine. Then use this to make an evaluation on the magazine
- What went well ?
- What do i need to improve?
- Three clear points to develop on -
Magazine newsstand task/ distribution of magazine (Planning)
Go to a newsstand and look at music magazine titles available.
- where and how they have been displayed
- Take a couple pics on phone and upload it
- Write about what i found on the blog. -
Drafting and finalizing house styles, drafts and layouts (Planning)
- Write a short proposal for my magazine
- Produce house style for the music magazine
- Draft copy (journalism)
- Who is my publisher ? Why ?
- Who are my audience ?
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Photography (Construction)
Get shown how to use the DSLR camera to be able to photographs for the music magazine. -
Audience Research Task
Evaluate the audience feedback from the pitch from a focus group. Make changes if needed from feedback. -
Photography
Have a minimum of 4 pics for the magazine (so take loads of pics to chose from a varity) Take the photos -
Desk Top Publishing and Editing My Music Magazine (Construction)
Draft of cover page, contents page and DPS -
Desk Top Publishing and Editing My Music Magazine (Construction)
The front cover, contents page and DPS needs to be completed and uploaded to the website. -
Audience research- main task / music magazine (Planning / Evaluation)
Get feedback on the music magazine.
comment on the weaknesses and the strengths and how does the final magazine compare to the draft and the plans -
Planning the Evaluation (Evaluation)
This is worth 20% of the coursework grade. Evaluation needs to address the following:
- In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and convections of real media products?
- How does my media product represent particular social groups?
- What kind of media institution might distrubute my media product and why?
- Who would be the audience of my media product?
- How did i attract my audience? -
Creating the Evaluation
I will be marked according to how appropriate my chosen technologies are to the presentation of my answer, and how creative / interactive i am, as well as the content of my answers needs to be uploaded by this date