Reminder for Miss Osborne's class - Mon 10th and Mon 18th

As discussed, by now you should have all of the theory and information you need to proceed with planning and producing your music magazine so you should spend our Monday lessons in a computer room working on this.
There are no rooms available for us to use as a class, so please work in one of the following rooms, assuming they are not fully-booked: S2, S13 (some PCs available sharing with Ms. James's Year 11s), M15 or M16 - or the sixth form study area.
I will be based in S12 as usual should you have any queries; please report to me in there at some point during the day so I can mark you present. And of course, don't forget I'll be accessing your blogs to check on the progress you are making!
Tuesdays - Please continue with your coursework as usual.
Thursdays - Our lessons will take place as usual in S13.

Remember that after Christmas, all lessons will be spent preparing for the exam, so you must make excellent use of the remaining lesson time you have!

Good luck.

Blogs of the week!

Congratulations - some of you are working really hard and your blogs are not only looking professional, but they are also really detailed.

We will post links to blogs of the week here to celebrate your work (smiley faces are on their way to you!) and share it with the rest of the class so that they can learn from the excellent examples you are setting!

Week starting 26th November
http://kimmusicmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/


Week starting 3rd December
http://catnealasmusicmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/


Week starting 14th January
http://catnealasmusicmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/

Week starting 21st January

Flat planning and pagination

Before you start finalising the design of your contents page, you need to have decided:
a) How many pages your magazine will have (Think about: price, frequency of publication, existing media etc.)
b) The types of contents your magazine will include (Think about: audience research findings, existing media)
b) The pagination of your magazine - the order in which you'll arrange your pages and why

What is a flat plan?

Link to a blank flat plan

Planning your magazine cover - linking your design to your brand

Once you have established a clear idea of your magazine's brand identity, how it fits in with existing media and how you plan to attract your target audience, you are ready to start planning.
Refer to this lesson and your analysis of Q and Kerrang! magazine to help you explain your planning and design decisions for your own music magazine

Research - Impact - Planning

• Some people are launching into their photography without having fully established a sense of their magazine’s brand identity or how they want to represent their artists in the magazine.

• It’s essential that you do this first, so that your findings inform your planning decisions and to ensure that you take the right sort of photographs in the first place!

• Think about it like a three-part process…

Refer to this lesson from 26/11/12 to ensure you understand the importance of linking your research and planning together and check that you are able to answer the first four questions in detail before proceeding!

The key features of a magazine cover

As previously discussed and to use as a reminder - Ensure you are able to identify the following when analysing music magazine and also when constructing your own magazine.

The features of a magazine cover

Masthead:                         The name of the newspaper or magazine.

Skyline:                                This is at the very top of the page and gives information about what the magazine has to offer i.e. free posters / competitions.

Slogan:                                 The words associated with the magazine or product the magazine is advertising i.e. ‘Because you’re worth it’

Anchorage Text:               This is the writing that is next to the main picture so it tells you what the main picture is about.

Price:                                     This is usually hidden in a corner if the magazine is expensive or written in large writing if the magazine is cheap.

Main Image:                       This is the big picture in the middle of the page or there may be lots of different pictures however there is usually one bigger than the rest. This is the main image.

Bar code:                             This is so the magazine can be scanned at the checkout till, the barcode is usually in the corner.

Sell Lines:                            These are the writing down the sides or along the bottom of the front page, this gives information about the other articles inside the magazine.

Layout:                                 Is the front cover very organised or is it very busy? Are there lots of arrows and text boxes or lots of puffs? Does the front cover say ‘You’ or ‘Your’ a lot?

Puff:                                      This is in the shape of a circle or a star and it gives other information about the magazine articles.

Colour Scheme:                What colours are being used? Is it pink? Is it for women or girls?

As promised an example of a level 1 music magazine!