Production Schedule For Magazine

Production schedule

Week 1 (commencing 17th September)

-Establish roles and responsibilities
-Set up a way in which the class can communicate outside of college
-Research content for each page
-Decide style of the magazine (e.g. lifestyle, Fashion, Sport etc.)
-Identify a target audience
-Identify weather the magazine will be local, national, international

Week 2 (commencing 24th September)
-Decide a magazine name
-Set up server
-Confirm what will be featured on each page
-Read through the brief with the class to understand the task fully

Week 3 (commencing 1st October)
-Discuss layout/look/theme of the magazine
-Find several magazines that have a similar theme in which we would like to take inspiration from
-Set up masters pages for the server
- Draw up thumbnails of potential designs of the magazine and/or begin designing straight onto master pages

Week 4 (commencing 8th October)
-Start creating dummy pages to get practise ready for final production after half term (this will enable each of us to understand what our strengths and weaknesses are, we can also identify weather we will need several sessions to go over understanding how Indesign works as we may have forgotten the skills we learnt last year)

Week 5 (commencing 15th October)
-Continue working on dummy pages as it is not expected to be able to complete this task in 2 lessons

Week 6 (commencing 22nd October)
—HALF TERM—

Week 7 (commencing 29th October)
-PRODUCTION OF MAGAZINE BEGINS

From Lucyann Mortimore