Magazine practical task research and planning

 

Research:

1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project. Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and embed an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.

-Vogue
-GQ
-House and Garden

2) Choose one of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g. GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then find three different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding.

-House and Garden 
















 Planning:

1) In your blogpost, write your main cover line (also called the 'main flash') - this is the main cover story that links to your central image. It must be 100% original - all your own words.

-"A better life during a tough time, the loss of loved homes and life's that can be restored with the new lives we offer".
-"Freedom that is well deserved by the citizens that we can provide".
-"We come together in hopes to join families again".

2) Briefly plan the image you will need for the cover - model, costume, make-up, lighting etc. At this point, simply describe the image you need to capture.

-I will need an image of flats and then edit it so that the colures in the picture are more warm and give a smoky feeling.

3) Write the cover lines and any additional text you need for your magazine cover.

-House & Garden 
-The flats of Greenford 1942
-Family. homes, calamity, love, comfort, spacious, London, lawns, peacefulness.
-Signs of autumn.

4) Sketch out your cover on plain A4 paper using your written planning. Take a photo of your sketch and upload it to your blogpost.

Photoshoot:

We will do a photoshoot in class next week with lighting and backdrop. However, if you prefer you can arrange your own photoshoot for the cover image in your own time - you can use your phone or your own camera to take an image. If you don't have a phone or camera that is suitable, you can sign out a camera from Mr Harrison.

1) On your planning document, write the date, time and location of your photoshoot and the name of the model or photographer you will use (you can choose anyone to be your cover model or you can be the cover model yourself).

-Monday 13th may
-17:00 
-Greenford

Publication to blog and evaluation

1) Once you have completed your design in Photoshop, go to 'File > Save a copy' and save your finished Photoshop magazine cover as a JPEG image. Then, upload it to your blogpost. 


























2) Upload two genuine covers of the magazine you have chosen and put them next to your front cover. This is a brilliant way to check how professional your work looks alongside the real thing.


































3) Write a short evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? Does your cover stand up alongside the genuine covers of your chosen magazine? How professional is your work alongside those genuine examples?

-I think that I have successful tried to create a new and original edition of the existing House & Garden magazine cover. The buildings are quite similar and I have tried to make the colour scheme in the new magazine closely similar to the existing one.

4) Finally, what would you do differently if you completed this assignment again? 

-I would have prepared ahead of time to make sure that I can  be more organised and have more time to edit the picture better. This would have made my cover better and look more professional.

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