Print magazine research and planning
It is crucial that you research, plan and design print work that could comfortably holds its own alongside professional examples. You will also need to include a short paragraph regarding your print magazine work in your redrafted Statement of Intent. A reminder of the coursework brief is here, with the key tasks as follows:
Print
You should create 4 pages of a culture magazine. The magazine targets adult audiences who enjoy the analysis and critical discussion of popular culture.
You should create a front cover and a two-page feature on the genre you have chosen to work in.
You can choose the focus of the feature article but for example, the feature could offer a history of the genre, an analysis of the genre’s conventions or offer a critical discussion about some aspect of the genre such as its gender representations.
The front cover and the two-page feature should relate to the TV show you are promoting in task 1 in some way.
The third page should be one of the following:
What do you need to produce?
1) The front page for a new, original culture magazine that you have created:
2) A contents page (or one of AQA's alternatives listed above):
3) A double-page spread feature linked to your TV drama production as outlined in AQA's guidance above:
Print brief - overall minimum requirements
We recommend that all of the above should be A4 page size (with the double-page spread doubling up so A3 size).
Research and planning blog tasks
Create a blogpost called 'Print brief research and planning' and complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work:
1) Research magazine cover key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and write which of these you will use for your magazine cover.That magazines aimed at both males and female audiences commonly use female cover models – the difference will usually lie in the way in which the model is ‘addressing’ the gaze of the camera.
2) Find at least five culture magazine front covers (either current or former magazines) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (adults interested in popular culture). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work. Some examples you may wish to look at include the Guardian Guide, Sunday Times Culture magazine, Time Out, The Face, the Radio Times, Aesthetica, the move and Paper:
3) Find at least three contents pages from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?
They all have a primary focus picture and to the plan of their magazine every one of them additionally have red content on there to make it stick out. The shading plan is very unbiased and dim yet has a pop shading through the red.
4) Find at least three double-page spread features from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples?
Planning, sketching and writing
1) Plan a title and slogan for your new, original culture magazine. Sketch out possible designs for the masthead - font, style, colour etc.
Title: Youth
Slogan:Youth that wants to live to the fullest
Masthead: FASHION|LIFESTYLE|
2) Plan the content for your magazine front cover. Your double-page spread will be the main story but what other cover lines, images and more will you include on the cover?
3) Write a list of the all the features, regular sections and more that will appear on your contents page. If you've chosen to produce a different internal page, plan that here instead.
4) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the issues or topics your TV drama addresses. How can you use this information to create a main feature for your culture magazine about your TV drama that will appeal to your target audience?
5) Write the text for your double-page spread feature. This needs to be a minimum of 400 words and be completely original and feature an aspect of your TV drama. Make sure you include a headline, subheading and any pullout quotes or sidebar contents.
6) Produce an A4 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing magazines and then planned in planning task 1 above.
7) Produce an A4 sketch of your contents page. This can be a single page of A4 or alternatively a double-page spread (A3).
8) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.
Photoshoot
1) Which of your main characters will appear on the front cover of your magazine?
I will be letting Daneeshta and Julia be on my front cover.
2) What image or images do you need for the contents page?
I will be getting more scenery pictures that will make it more appealing and give a more formal style to the magazine.3) What image or images will you use for the double-page spread? Remember, you need seven different original images across the print brief.
I will be using a close up for one of my images for the double page spread.
4) Write a shot list for the photoshoot. Make sure you plan a variety of camera shots you will look to capture - medium shots, close-ups etc.
5) What costume, props or make-up will you require for the photoshoot?
I will be having very beige colours for the front cover then the double page spread i am thinking of having more of a colourful theme and the double page spread as black and white.
You should create 4 pages of a culture magazine. The magazine targets adult audiences who enjoy the analysis and critical discussion of popular culture.
You should create a front cover and a two-page feature on the genre you have chosen to work in.
You can choose the focus of the feature article but for example, the feature could offer a history of the genre, an analysis of the genre’s conventions or offer a critical discussion about some aspect of the genre such as its gender representations.
The front cover and the two-page feature should relate to the TV show you are promoting in task 1 in some way.
The third page should be one of the following:
- a contents page
- a single page advert reflecting the potential interests of the target audience
- a single page feature on a contemporary cultural product
- a single page providing a summary of recent cultural news items
What do you need to produce?
1) The front page for a new, original culture magazine that you have created:
- Title and masthead
- Selling line
- Cover price
- Dateline
- Main cover image and at least two further smaller images related to the content of the magazine
- At least 5 cover lines
2) A contents page (or one of AQA's alternatives listed above):
- Content that is appropriate to the conventions of the genre of magazine being created
- Each page to use original images as illustrations (the main cover image must not be repeated but the smaller images from the front cover can appear on internal pages)
- Internal pages should reflect the design codes and conventions of the genre of magazine being created
3) A double-page spread feature linked to your TV drama production as outlined in AQA's guidance above:
- Content that is appropriate to the conventions of the genre of magazine being created
- Original copy (at least 400 words)
- Each page to use original images as illustrations (the main cover image must not be repeated but the smaller images from the front cover can appear on internal pages)
- Internal pages should reflect the design codes and conventions of the genre of magazine being created
Print brief - overall minimum requirements
- A clear house style should be used in the presentation of all pages.
- A minimum of 7 original images should be included in the submission.
- All copy should be original and a minimum of 400 words should be
- submitted
- Work should be presented on pages that are an appropriate size or in proportion to the size of paper used by magazines
We recommend that all of the above should be A4 page size (with the double-page spread doubling up so A3 size).
Research and planning blog tasks
Create a blogpost called 'Print brief research and planning' and complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work:
1) Research magazine cover key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and write which of these you will use for your magazine cover.That magazines aimed at both males and female audiences commonly use female cover models – the difference will usually lie in the way in which the model is ‘addressing’ the gaze of the camera.
Not much content but rather the fundamental spread picture sticks out and is the principle center. I believe is the altogether different as it just spotlights on the primary picture and truly shows who their intended audience is. Additionally the principle picture is a medium shot and the theme all fits together.
3) Find at least three contents pages from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?
They all have a primary focus picture and to the plan of their magazine every one of them additionally have red content on there to make it stick out. The shading plan is very unbiased and dim yet has a pop shading through the red.
4) Find at least three double-page spread features from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples?
One page is only a principle picture of the star and which is a medium shot. The content is very short and not a ton as the principle center is the picture From these models I can obtain the fundamental picture as it is a simple method to fill the twofold page spreed and it shows to be targeting a smaller audience.
Planning, sketching and writing
1) Plan a title and slogan for your new, original culture magazine. Sketch out possible designs for the masthead - font, style, colour etc.
Title: Youth
Slogan:Youth that wants to live to the fullest
Masthead: FASHION|LIFESTYLE|
2) Plan the content for your magazine front cover. Your double-page spread will be the main story but what other cover lines, images and more will you include on the cover?
3) Write a list of the all the features, regular sections and more that will appear on your contents page. If you've chosen to produce a different internal page, plan that here instead.
5) Write the text for your double-page spread feature. This needs to be a minimum of 400 words and be completely original and feature an aspect of your TV drama. Make sure you include a headline, subheading and any pullout quotes or sidebar contents.
6) Produce an A4 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing magazines and then planned in planning task 1 above.
7) Produce an A4 sketch of your contents page. This can be a single page of A4 or alternatively a double-page spread (A3).
8) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.
Photoshoot
1) Which of your main characters will appear on the front cover of your magazine?
I will be letting Daneeshta and Julia be on my front cover.
2) What image or images do you need for the contents page?
I will be getting more scenery pictures that will make it more appealing and give a more formal style to the magazine.3) What image or images will you use for the double-page spread? Remember, you need seven different original images across the print brief.
I will be using a close up for one of my images for the double page spread.
4) Write a shot list for the photoshoot. Make sure you plan a variety of camera shots you will look to capture - medium shots, close-ups etc.
5) What costume, props or make-up will you require for the photoshoot?
I will be having very beige colours for the front cover then the double page spread i am thinking of having more of a colourful theme and the double page spread as black and white.
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