Homework over half term

You need to:

Please use this as a checklist.

• Complete all preliminary tasks (see earlier post for details)
• Ensure everything is uploaded on your blog
• Edit/add to any posts which are lacking in depth. For each post have you?
• analysed the content you have posted (pictures, magazine front covers, contents pages, mastheads titles, audience research etc)
• what choices have you or the designer made?
• why did they/you make those choices?
• what is effective about those choices?
• Update your weekly journal
• What have you done each week?
• What went well?
• What do you need to improve?
• How are you going to apply this to your next project?
• Come to the first lesson back with a chosen genre of music and a name for your music magazine

Additional homework if you have finished the above:

• Design and carryout a questionnaire for your music magazine
• Research the music magazine industry-
• who are the main publishing houses?
• how many magazines are sold each week?
• how does the magazine editing team market their product?
• which are the most successful magazines? Why are the they successful?

Homework due 25th October

Look at your individual mark sheets and complete the tasks you haven't yet finished.

What should be on your blog so far...

• Coventions of magazines
• Analysis of front cover/contents page/example photographs
• Audience research
• Weekly journal
• Photo plans- including location/props/costume/lighting/layouts
• Raw photos and explanations of which ones you have chosen and why
• Three titles and explanations of how your research of conventions/target audience influenced you
• Three mastheads and explanations of how your research of conventions/target audience influenced you
• Plans for front cover and contents page
• Mark sheet from me

Tips from the moderator

Explanation for changes whilst planning were often brief and lacked depth.

Try and show candidate’s work as a journey. How has research influenced their planning? EG Have they discarded images? Why?

Few candidates submitted a selection of raw images.

Wider range. Vary pose/costume/lighting/location.

Image editing was only briefly considered.

Take screen grabs of the process to show what is being done and have kids explain why they’ve manipulated it in that way. Link this to research/convention etc.

Candidates need to demonstrate greater awareness [in their photography] of the need for variety as suitable for the chosen music genre.

As above: Wider range. Vary pose/costume/lighting/location.

Candidates need to demonstrate a better understanding of the conventions of layout and page design.

Further research needed. Analyse and break down several existing mags of their chosen genre.

Front covers lacked content.

Use list from contents page. How many coverlines are usually on covers? How many do you have?

Double page spreads often designed as two single pages.

Research layout of doublepage spreads. Focus on page break.

Deadline for preliminary task: Friday 8th November

Student of the week: NASRINE!!

Homework

Your homework is to continue to complete the preliminary task tasks below.

Preliminary task

Preliminary task: Week 1: Take photos of School + Photos of 2 friends in Medium Close Up Week 2: Come up with 3 titles and 3 different mastheads: Put these ideas on your blog Week3 : Design a front page and find 3 similar front pages: Week4 + 5 : Put it all together to make the front page and contents page of a school magazine Week 6: Evaluation and presentation