Friday 1 March 2019

Magazine group practical

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 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..