This document provides a checklist for the steps required to complete an assignment to design a magazine. It includes 10 steps: 1) Choosing a magazine brief, 2) Preliminary research on magazine layouts, 3) Drawing magazine cover and contents page designs, 4) Creating a digital magazine cover and contents page, 5) Evaluating preliminary work, 6) Researching genre conventions of music magazines, 7) Analyzing covers, contents pages and spreads of existing magazines, 8) Creating additional analysis through a video discussion and inspiration collage, 9) Researching potential target audiences through existing magazine profiles and a created reader profile, and 10) Conducting primary audience research through a questionnaire.
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Checklist for AS Print Brief
1. Checklist for As Print Brief
Post Title Post Content Done
1 Chosen Brief
State which of the Briefs have you chosen and what will it require you to
do?
2 Magazine Layout
This is your preliminary research. You will label and discuss a front cover
and a contents page of a magazine.
3 Magazine Flat Plans
Draw out a design for your front cover and contents page. Do this on A4
paper and scan it in.
4 Prelim Product
a) Create your own college magazine front cover and contents page in
Photoshop.
b) Export as a JPEG and add to your blog.
5 Prelim Evaluation
Consider the strengths and weaknesses of your work. Also discuss things
that you have learnt that will benefit your future work.
6 Genre Research
Create a PowerPoint that discusses the generic conventions of particular
music magazines. You should discuss 3 examples. Upload this to
slideshare and embed into your blog.
7 Textual Analysis
a) Create a Prezi titled Textual Analysis.
b) In this prezi you should analyse a minimum of 2 front covers, contents
pages and double page spreads.
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Textual Analysis Grade
Booster
a) Create a video of yourself discussing your findings, consider how this
will benefit your future work.
b) Create a collage of cut outs/Google images of inspirational fonts,
costume, images etc. Reflect and discuss how these are born out of your
textual analysis and how you intend to incorporate them into your own
product. How do they signify your chosen genre?
9
Research into a Potential
Target Audience –
Secondary Research
a) Find reader profiles for 3 magazines
b) Discuss the profile considering the audience it paints and why they
target that group.
c) Add a sub heading to your blog post ‘How will this research affect my
ideas?’ and add your thoughts.
d) create your own reader profile and discuss how you arrived at this.
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Primary Audience
Research
a) Create your own questionnaire using both qualitative and quantative
questions.
b) Answer other people questionnaires while yours is answered by them.
c) Analyse your responses and create graphs to help you discuss the
responses in the blog post. Focus on how this data will help you when
you produce your magazine. What will you take on board and action in
your own work.