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Production
Production
Drafting
Drafting
Whilst in the process of completing your magazine, you should document the design process. This is to prove to the examiner that you have been responsible for every step of your magazine production. The best method to do this is to export your magazine (according to this tutorial) and post it onto your website once a week, with a brief description of the elements you have amended or added during that week.
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
If you wish to push the boundaries and create a 360 video of your studio set up, you can use a Ricoh Theta camera and then demonstrate your layout of the studio. This will be more challenging and require a greater understanding of technology, but will also reflect in your overall grade. You can see a tutorial of how to use the Ricoh Theta 360 camera here (TBC). If you wish to keep things simple you can use your smartphone to record a 'walk around' of the studio, explaining the set up as you go.
Timelapse
Timelapse
You should set up an additional camera at the back of the studio, either filming or taking time-lapse photos using an intervalometer. This should then be uploaded to YouTube and posted to your website as evidence of each of your shoots, to prove you did not have professional assistance. You can view a tutorial of how to stitch photos together into a time-lapse video here (TBC).
Contact Sheet
Contact Sheet
You should create contact sheets of photos taken during your photoshoots. These are evidence of the images you've taken during your production stage and should be laid out very specifically according to industry conventions. You can view a tutorial on how do to this to the right. Do not feel as though you must include every photo you have taken; a sample of 20-30 of your best photos from each shoot you have done should be sufficient. The aim of this post is to prove you have taken a variety of photos at each location.
Article Draft
Article Draft
InDesign does not offer a robust spell checking solution, as a result you are strongly advised to write your article in Google Docs before copying and pasting into your InDesign document. Your article should be 1500-2000 words, in which you must write about your front cover model and their career. The easiest way to do this is via a simple Q & A where questions are posed to the interviewee by the writer of the article and the responses are given by your cover model. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CONDUCT AN INTERVIEW IN REALITY, you may simply make up your responses on-the-fly. Try to imagine a fictitious life for your cover model, through which you can take the reader through your article. If you are feeling more adventurous you can write a more creative piece, where you describe their career and your impressions of the artist from a more opinionated perspective, this can be more challenging but again will reflect
Producing Your Images
Producing Your Images
In order to do this you will need to take your own original images which should include, but not be limited to:
- Five images of your feature model for your front cover, contents and feature article
- One image of four additional models for your contents page.
This is very much the bare minimum and a greater quantity of images are recommended.
Making Your Magazine
Making Your Magazine
You must now begin producing your magazine. Along the way you should document your progress on your blog via screenshots/screencasts or any other format you feel may be appropriate. You can 'scaffold' the design of your magazine using placeholder images sourced online if you have not yet taken your own images. It is strongly recommended that you follow the guidance in the Magazine Production tutorial linked below:
Marketing Your Magazine
Marketing Your Magazine
In order to impress the examiner, if you have additional time it would be beneficial to produce some marketing material for your magazine. You can do this through creating artificial Social Media platforms, displaying your intentions for their use and by mocking up artificial banners of your magazine and superimposing them into photos of public locations. You can use the following guide to help you with this:
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