Planning - Week 1

When planning for my magazine, I did a range of things to get my ideas flowing and going. I started by looking at my mind map and seeing what I could plan first and I decided that doing some stylesheets of my magazine's theme. It helped my alot when decideding a theme and style of the magazine; I started off doing a sheet of potential colour schemes and then develped my chosen colour into a final stylesheets along with images and fonts. After some inspiration of work with stylesheets and mindmaps, I've started making brainstorms and flat plans of each of the magazine pages. I feel as if I need to do a lot more work on the flatplans. I need to hurry up when doing them so I can carry on with the other parts of planning, but otherwise I see myself completing the planning on time.

Follow-up Questionnaire

Doing the follow up questionnaire at the start of the week, I didn't really think it was going to be much help to  me, but as the week progressed, this proved wrong. I thought that I had covered all aspects of my product in my first questionnaire (which I had) but doing the second questionnaire helpled reinforce what the public want in a magazine. The questionnaire has let me know that the ideas that I had in my head about my magazine were good, creative but still had conventional roots that the public seem to like. I think the questionnaire also helped when finding out people's opinions on how magazines work. Overall, the follow up questionnaire was good and helpful; it had helped me with deciding what will actually go in my magazine.

Mindmap

Fonts Moodboard

Front Cover Moodboard

Advert Moodboard

Creating Moodboards, Mindmaps and Stylesheets

When making moodboards, mindmaps and stylesheets, I found it very helpful and interesting. It helped me with deciding what different things would be going in my magazine. I went into thorough detail, noting down where pictures will be taken and what pages will look like. I think this will be really helpful when putting the contents together. It is now clear to me what my magazine will end up looking like and what sort of magazine it will be due to the moodboards, mindmaps and stylesheets. I have explored some major ideas in my magazine which could be outstanding. I now have a rough idea of what sort of font I will have on my front page and how it might look. I think I need to explore my ideas more with the adverts that will go in my magazine; I think that I need to make my adverts much more bigger, very unique and creative. This will support my portfolio for university. Making this moodboards and mindmaps has helped me considerably; I know exactly what I want to produce and how I will do it.