The magazine group practical makes up 50% of your upcoming key assessment. The other 50% comes from the mock you will sit on the magazine industry. Check the blog for more information!
Your key assessment for the magazine unit will be a whole class project working to create a new magazine.
The magazine will be published on the blog, and possibly in the Long Road student magazine (but probably not)
Brief – To create a counter-cultural women's fashion
There are two broad roles: journalist or designer.
Journalist
- researching a subject and story
- writing and editing news stories and features in the publication's house style
- conducting interviews, either in person or remotely
- sourcing images to accompany written pieces
- meeting with colleagues to plan the content of the issue and the character of the publication
- keeping up to date with trends and developments relating to the magazine's subject matter.
Designer
- Design and create visual concepts, using Photoshop or other software to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers.
- Develop the overall layout and production design
- Create advertisements that parody and subvert consumerism (culture-jamming)
- Compose graphics/imagery to accompany articles and features within the article
The magazine must….
- Represent women's high end fashion
- Be counter-cultural and subversive in its ideology
- Target women as primary audience and men as a secondary audience
- Use real photos and images taken in class (as well as others..)
- Have an identifiable house style
For today’s lesson
- Compose stories/research topics and issues to cover
- Plan photoshoots (costumes, locations etc.)
- Sketch out designs for style/front covers (using A4/Photoshop)
- Plan a theme/ style for the magazine
- Design culture-jamming adverts
- Research counter-cultural magazines for inspiration..
