Thursday, 1 December 2011

Introduction to Preliminary Task and Action Plan Preliminary Task

Deadline for preliminary task: Friday 6th January 2012
For the preliminary task I am going to create the front cover and the contents page of a student magazine. This must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up and some appropriately laid out text and masthead. I will use DTP and an image manipulation program to complete this task.

Week One:

  • Introduction of brief.
  • Analysis of magazines and how they target audiences.
  • Research generic conventions of magazines.
Week Two:
  • Analysis of school/college magazines.
  • Research of target audience
  • Set up and introduce coursework task.
  • Put action plan on blog.
  • Complete a textual analysis of a magazine of your choice and post it on blog.
  • Complete textual analysis of school/college magazines and post on blog.
  • Devise a questionnaire to research student audience.
Week Three:
  • Produce a mock-up of front cover and contents page.
  • Begin to design front cover and contents page.
  • Begin to take photos for own magazine.
  • Post research of target audience on blog and review findings.
  • Post mock-up of magazine front cover on blog and provide commentary.
Week Four:
  • Designing of front cover and contents page.
  • Post final front cover and contents page on blog.
(19th December - 4th January: Christmas holidays - Work on evaluation questions)

Week Five:
  • Complete evaluation.
  • Post evaluation on blog


Introduction to Main Task...

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