Year 11 Planning Work To Do

Layout conventions in a flat plan drawing

Continue creating your initial planning ideas for your own magazine. Refer to yesterday's lesson post to help you remember the tasks you need to get completed by Friday 9th October. 

Magazine publishers spend time creating detailed layout plans to ensure their content is presented in the most effective way. You need to show how your ideas have developed, step-by-step, in your Media Portfolio. Remember SAVE EVERYTHING you are doing on these first drafts in your media folder.

Year 10: Magazine Task

1. Create your own magazine front cover, using Photoshop.
2. Analyse your own front cover, labelling the conventions. Use this list to help you name each convention. Say why you believe it appeals to your chosen target audience.
3. Choose a magazine cover. Recreate it, using your Photoshop skills. The layout has to be exactly the same as the original.
4. SAVE all your work carefully in your Media Studies folder ready for the next lesson.

Year 11 Planning: Create your first Magazine Front Cover

Create your initial ideas for your own magazine front cover.

You need to use your research to begin planning your first draft front cover of your own original magazine. Today, you need to focus on a name and what key image you need to suit your target audience. Think about the layout of your magazine, based on the magazine examples you have been deconstructing in your research work.

Task 1: Using Photoshop, recreate the magazine front cover you deconstructed in your research work. The layout must be exactly the same.

Task 2: Create your own magazine front cover, using a found image that would suit your Target Audience and magazine genre. Create an original name and then add some of the sell lines you intend to include to appeal to the interests of your readers.

Create your magazine draft using Photoshop. Remember to give each element a different layer, like you did when creating your film poster product.