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.

Year 11 - What do my Readers Want in a Magazine? Creating a Questionnaire

Consider who is your Target Audience and how you are going to find out what they would like to read about in your magazine. To do this, you need to create a questionnaire using Survey Monkey. You will then have data to use when planning the content of your own magazine product.

Task: Go to the website www.surveymonkey.com Sign up and then create a list of 10 questions for your potential readers. Send an email to 20 of your friends asking them to complete the questionnaire.

Year 11 Target Audience Task

Go to the UK Tribes website.
Explore the website to help you research how to define Target Audience groups. Think about how this site may influence your own ideas about the Target Audience for your magazine product.

Task: Create a description of the Target Audience for your magazine product. Add this to your research powerpoint as a new slide. Can you include a description and images that would suit your target audience. You are trying to create a Target Audience Profile to show the kind of person who you imagine would buy your magazine.

CD Cover Task - Evaluation Questions

When you complete a piece of creative work you are required to evaluate it. The questions you need to answer for this task are simplified versions of the ones you will need to answer for your coursework. These are the things you need to evaluate and comment on.

• What is good about your work? (Consider image, layout, colour, font, design). 
• What needs improvement? (Consider image, layout, colour, font, design). 
• What will you do differently next time? 
• What have you learnt?

Magazine Research and Planning Task List

You need to complete the following (use Martha's work as a guide):

• general magazine x1
• specialist magazine x2
• genre conventions
• moodboard(s)
• magazine analysis (cover, contents, double page spread) x3
• colour palettes x6
• fonts (including descriptions) x8
• audience profile (male & female - as applicable)
• UK Tribes audience profile
• questionnaire and questionnaire feedback