Research and planning blog tasks
Research and planning blog tasks
Create a blogpost called 'Print brief research and planning' and complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work:
1) Research magazine cover key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and write which of these you will use for your magazine cover.
2) Find at least five culture magazine front covers (either current or former magazines) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (adults interested in popular culture). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work. Some examples you may wish to look at include the Guardian Guide, Sunday Times Culture magazine, Time Out, The Face, the Radio Times, Aesthetica, the move and Paper:
3) Find at least three contents pages from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?
4) Find at least three double-page spread features from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples?
5) Read at least three example features from newspapers and magazine to learn the format, writing style and content for a culture magazine. You may wish to use the following to help you:
1) Plan a title and slogan for your new, original culture magazine. Sketch out possible designs for the masthead - font, style, colour etc.
Title choices:
2) Plan the content for your magazine front cover. Your double-page spread will be the main story but what other cover lines, images and more will you include on the cover?
3) Write a list of the all the features, regular sections and more that will appear on your contents page. If you've chosen to produce a different internal page, plan that here instead.
4) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the issues or topics your TV drama addresses. How can you use this information to create a main feature for your culture magazine about your TV drama that will appeal to your target audience?
5) Write the text for your double-page spread feature. This needs to be a minimum of 400 words and be completely original and feature an aspect of your TV drama. Make sure you include a headline, subheading and any pullout quotes or sidebar contents.
400 word spread
6) Produce an A4 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing magazines and then planned in planning task 1 above.
8) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.
Photoshoot
1) Which of your main characters will appear on the front cover of your magazine?
4) Write a shot list for the photoshoot. Make sure you plan a variety of camera shots you will look to capture - medium shots, close-ups etc.
MCU of Raja
MCU of Veer
MS of Aman.
5) What costume, props or make-up will you require for the photoshoot?
No necessary props required just the costume of Raja ( Black ) and Veer ( Black and White )
Create a blogpost called 'Print brief research and planning' and complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work:
1) Research magazine cover key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and write which of these you will use for your magazine cover.
- Central image – most magazines tend to employ a single, strong central image which serves to‘anchor’ the cover i.e. provide it with weight and focus, and help establish the magazine’s core values and identity.
- Colour scheme – in order to avoid a cover becoming too ‘busy’ and therefore difficult to ‘decode’, designers tend to stick to a limited colour scheme. Certain colours are generally felt to work well together and to provide a particular ‘vibe’ or palette – oranges, reds and pinks are warm and ‘fun’; blues, greens and blacks are cool and fresh.
- Bar code, Date and Price – for straightforward selling purposes, all commercial magazines need this information on their cover. However, most designers will consider them an encumbrance and will make them as small and inconspicuous as possible, so as not to compromise the ‘integrity’ of their compositional work.
- Title of publication – placed in the top third so that it is easily visible, particularly when stacked with other magazines in limited shelf space.
- Slogan – a short, catchy statement or phrase, intended to ‘sum-up’ the magazine’s image and to stick in the reader’s mind.
2) Find at least five culture magazine front covers (either current or former magazines) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (adults interested in popular culture). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work. Some examples you may wish to look at include the Guardian Guide, Sunday Times Culture magazine, Time Out, The Face, the Radio Times, Aesthetica, the move and Paper:
3) Find at least three contents pages from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?
4) Find at least three double-page spread features from culture, lifestyle or music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples?
5) Read at least three example features from newspapers and magazine to learn the format, writing style and content for a culture magazine. You may wish to use the following to help you:
- Dev Patel: ‘I’m just this guy from Rayners Lane – how the hell did this happen?’(1,200 words)
- Sanjeev Bhaskar Discusses his OBE, his acclaimed career and season 2 of ITV crime series, unforgotten (2,300 words )
- Himesh Patel: ‘It’s weird to think about a Beatle watching me sing their songs’ (1,000 words )
Planning, sketching and writing
1) Plan a title and slogan for your new, original culture magazine. Sketch out possible designs for the masthead - font, style, colour etc.
Title choices:
- Gemini
- euphoria
- serendipity
- rosa
- hermosa
- bella
- Jinx
- mono
- estrella
- sona
- vale
- lunox
- karma
- ashe
- Signal
Title: SIGNAL
Slogan Choices:
- Inspire the new wave of creation
- Charming your Minds
Slogan-
- Inspire the new wave of creation
The style will be a very fresh and modern reflecting a red and black hyperwave aesthetic.
Plan: colour scheme- Black and red
Use of cover lines and conventions such as price and barcode.
2) Plan the content for your magazine front cover. Your double-page spread will be the main story but what other cover lines, images and more will you include on the cover?
- In terms of Contents page I wanted to remain with the house style of serif font and a triangle style pattern to insert pictures of the contents within them.
3) Write a list of the all the features, regular sections and more that will appear on your contents page. If you've chosen to produce a different internal page, plan that here instead.
- Korean skincare feature
- Pride and acceptance
- The feature of mt TV drama
- A general article on Film and TV
- Health and food
- Christmas decorations hacks
- Art Exhibitions in London- anime
- Books- top books of the month
- Music- LoFi.
4) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the issues or topics your TV drama addresses. How can you use this information to create a main feature for your culture magazine about your TV drama that will appeal to your target audience?
- Female leads
- Representation
- Fashion stereotypes-androgyny
I will have my double page spread on the representation of Indian women in British Television in the contemporary age.
5) Write the text for your double-page spread feature. This needs to be a minimum of 400 words and be completely original and feature an aspect of your TV drama. Make sure you include a headline, subheading and any pullout quotes or sidebar contents.
400 word spread
6) Produce an A4 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing magazines and then planned in planning task 1 above.
7) Produce an A4 sketch of your contents page. This can be a single page of A4 or alternatively a double-page spread (A3).
8) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.
Photoshoot
1) Which of your main characters will appear on the front cover of your magazine?
- The main actress (Aman Nandra) will appear as both Raja and Veer.
- I will also feature Harlow (Julia Baginska) as well as the minor characters of Raja's entourage- BTS of the TV drama
- I will need images of the drama to feature as well as other fairly random pictures that will link to the content within the magazine such as nature, a cinema and Christmas paraphernalia
- I will use use a stunning mid shot of the actress playing the protagonist as my image for the double page spread.
4) Write a shot list for the photoshoot. Make sure you plan a variety of camera shots you will look to capture - medium shots, close-ups etc.
MCU of Raja
MCU of Veer
MS of Aman.
5) What costume, props or make-up will you require for the photoshoot?
No necessary props required just the costume of Raja ( Black ) and Veer ( Black and White )
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