Planning Week 2

Since last week, I have completed my flat plans for my magazine pages: it took me much longer than expected. I still need to complete my planning for the adverts that will go in the magazine. I will then places all my flat plans together and make a mock-up out of them. I am also half way through doing my mock-up pages on Photoshop. I have also written down a list of models that I will use to go in my magazine and images. I have done some research on who and what company will print my magazine; I have found that most big companies will only print a minimum of 50-100 issues of the magazine rather than the 1 that I need. I have noticed that it's not too much money to print a few issues of the magazine with a smaller company so if I can't get 1 issue printed, this is what I'll have to do. I have also done the planning production schedule of producing the magazine after Christmas. A few final things I need to do, is to finish off remaining job and I need to pick apart all the different, big images that will go in my magazine and do the location, props and costume planning of them. I need to focus on completing my planning for the deadline which is very soon.

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

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