Friday 11 March 2022

1st year magazine group practical

  •  This week you will be making a magazine as a class. A whole magazine! This sucks!
  • Don't worry, you get to do it as a class, and you pretty much get to do what you want. But if you do nothing, you don't get a grade, lol
  • Why are we doing this? To prepare for when you make your magazine for your coursework. Also because it will teach you how to work as a group, under a strict timeline. Also it's fun
  • 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 lifestyle magazine

  • This means fashion, lifestyle, knitting, health, whatever. But all done wrong. Because it's edgy

There are two roles

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

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)

Additionally there will be an editor (LORD OF THE OFFICE) and an art editor (THE LORD OF THE DESIGNERS)

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 a identifiable style 

Other than this, do whatever you like, as long as it's not illegal. If it is illegal, please do not do it. You will be expelled, and I will get in trouble. As long as you do something (ant it's not illegal), it's all good

Lesson one: preproduction

  • 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

Lesson two: production

  • Go out and take pictures and wear weird stuff
  • There will also be art design and editing going on too

Lesson three: postproduction

  • Everything gets pulled together. The editor and the art editor get stressed out. Hopefully you finish on time

Inspiration

Professional magazines







Previous student magazines