Treatment

The following presentation shows a brainstorm of my ideas for this project:

The Treatment: Ideas by Cherie Herman

Prelim Evaluation

The Evaluation of my Preliminary task -using the web 2.0 tool screencast omatic.

For High Definition: 
On the bottom right corner click setting, then click 720 HD.

Preliminary Task

To launch my planning, I started with a quick preliminary task. Here, we were given the following brief:

Produce the front page and contents of a new school/college magazine.

It must feature:

- a photograph of a student in medium close-up

-some appropriately laid-out text

-a masthead

While the task does not have to be polished, or 'the finished article'. The competition of its worth 15 of the 60 marks available for construction.

This needs to be completed on photoshop and must be finished within the one week period. 

The purpose of this task is so I gain a broad understanding of how to construct a magazine front cover and contents page, ensuring I make minimal-if any mistakes, in my final product.

Planning: Introduction

After successfully finishing my magazine research, I will now go continue onto the stage of planning my product. During this process I will get audience feedback, create various drafts, plan schedules and more. All leading up to the development of my final product.

Conclusion of Research

What I've gained and how it will help throughout my final research and production process:

Having finished my initial research, I have gained much insight into not only the magazine industry as a whole, but specifically into the area of EDM magazines. I've become familiar with the publishers and the production process of magazines- clearly being able to define the difference between a low vs high quality magazine. I am confident in the varied conventions of an EDM front cover, contents page and double page spread. I've gained a clear insight on my specific target audience, understanding what makes them fit into their specific niche, consequently what makes them tick. I've learnt the most effective ways to do this through my research into the uses and gratifications theory. All of which are skills I've only gained into creating the highest quality magazine and conducting the best possible research for this.

Target Audience Profiling

Application of Uses and Graticiations- Hard Copy