P1 /M1 Learners produce preproduction materials for a planned original print media product
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Task 1:
Pre-production materials
Research: Magazine cover analysis
Find three existing Magazine covers (from different genres) and annotate the common features (e.g. release date, star billing…)
Answer this underneath: How does the poster attract the target audience to this particular industry?
Task 2:
Pre-production materials
Planning: Creating own idea.
Pre-production materials
Planning: Creating own idea.
a) Your own idea for a magazine cover. Create a mind map and mood board.
Mind map ideas including:
Industry - what type of magazine will your it be? how will audiences know this?
Setting - where is your product going to be set? Background of your magazine? Why? How does this link to genre?
Characters - Who are the characters, products, locations on your cover? Are they going to be stereotypical of the genre?
Design - What colour schemes and styles are typical of your chosen genre? What graphics will you be creating?
Task 3:
Pre-production: Planning Flat Plans
Create three flat plans for your magazine cover using typical conventions/features. These should be different designs, annotated to show the detail you have included. Hand drawn or illustrator rough layouts on A4/A3 paper.
Your annotations should be detailed and explain what features you have embodied. Include comments on: colour, image, layout,font, text. Give reasons for your choices. For example Layout can be blocks to chow the space where images will go and then room for text layouts as well as sub headings. colour only parts of your layout.
Some key terms to include in your annotations: genre, narrative, character, audience, convention, connotations, signify.
Your annotations should be detailed and explain what features you have embodied. Include comments on: colour, image, layout,font, text. Give reasons for your choices. For example Layout can be blocks to chow the space where images will go and then room for text layouts as well as sub headings. colour only parts of your layout.
Some key terms to include in your annotations: genre, narrative, character, audience, convention, connotations, signify.
Task 4: Pre-production
Research: audience responses
Gather an audience response to your three magazine cover designs. Create a questionnaire then produce an infographic to find out which design the target audience prefers and why.
Research: audience responses
Gather an audience response to your three magazine cover designs. Create a questionnaire then produce an infographic to find out which design the target audience prefers and why.
Sample questions:
- What genre do these covers belong to?
- What products do they remind you of?
Get around five questions and a minimum of 10 people. Present your findings from the audience research as an infographic. (Google for examples).
https://infogr.am/
Task 5:
Pre-production: text designs
Carry out some research into your fonts/graphics/coloursPre-production: text designs
a)Produce a page of potential fonts on Photoshop for the title of your magazine. Summarise which font you think is most effective and why. Use key terms: genre and audience.
b) Produce some more design pages for the other text on your poster e.g Sub headings, star billing and review ratings and article text.
For each convention/feature you choose select your favourite and give reasons why.
c) Produce a colour scheme page using different mixes of colours with examples of a part of your page layout in the specific colours.
Write a brief description for each or your chosen colour scheme and give reasons why linking to audience and genre?
d) Produce a collection of images or graphics you will go to take yourselves or create on Photoshop/Illustrator. Think about the graphics or characters etc that will be included on your cover. For example could be a Spy/bond character on the front of your film magazine, or a collection of retro consoles for a retro gaming magazine.
Make a mood board or collection of images relating to your magazine with some illustrator graphics.
Task 6:
Pre-production: production plan
Shooting schedule.
Pre-production: production plan
Shooting schedule.
You need to have a " plan of action" for the next phase of the unit.
You need to start considering where you will take your photos, who you will take them of, when you will take them, what props you will need etc.
You need to start considering where you will take your photos, who you will take them of, when you will take them, what props you will need etc.
E.G if your producing a gaming magazine you may take your own photos of a console or arcade machine etc.
Produce a production schedule plan for the above. Use template below.
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