Research and Planning

Foundation Portfolio

Research and Planning

Tasks

 

1. Complete your analysis of music magazines. (3 x covers, 3 x articles, 3 x contetnts pages)

 

2. Carry out audience research and post on your blog:

· You must create a questionnaire in order to carry out market research about your target audience.

 

3. Evaluate the findings of your audience research and post them on your blog. – e.g. Slideshare.

 

4. Create a mood board for your magazine.

 

5. Create an audience profile for your magazine.

 

6. Create a draft plan for your music magazine pages.

· Masthead

· Fonts

· Cover-lines

· Image plans

· List of contents

· Etc.

 

7. Create rough design drafts of your magazine pages.

 

8. Create all the images for each page of your magazine.

 

 

Deadline: Friday, January 9th 2015

Coursework Deadlines

Main Task

Coursework Deadlines

Preliminary Task – 7^th November 2014

Research and Planning – 5^th December 2014

Main Task: All Music Magazine Pages – 6^th March 2015

Main Task Evaluation – 24^th April 2015

NB – The final deadline for all the elements of the coursework to be completed and uploaded onto your blog is:

1^st May 2015

School Magazine Covers

Preliminary Task - School Magazine Cover

Preliminary Tasks

1. Create the front cover of a school magazine.
2. Create the basic layout of a contents page for a school magazine.
You should use this task to familiarise yourself with the following software:

• Adobe Indesign

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Bridge

You will need to spend approximately 4-5 hours producing your front page.

Look at the  examples above before your create your own cover using Adobe Indesign.