Article Planning

 

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	Happy Never After - An article on love/relationships as teenagers and debating whether it is ‘real love’.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	2nd person
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	Relatively formal, start and end in the style of a fairy tale. Use research and mini interview within the article, as well as questionnaire results.
Stylistics	Rhetorical question, ellipsis, list of 3, exclamative sentences.
Tone of address	Mixture of both negative and positive tones. I also want to involve a ‘matey’ and sarcastic tone to add comedy to the article. I want the article to entertain and educate in a fluent way.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	Begin with ‘Once Upon A Time’ and end with ‘Happy Ever After’. In terms of the middle section, I will have a paragraph for each of the three types of love, which will include facts and figures from various sources. I think the article will have an open ending, which I hope will provoke thought.

Photo shoot planning documents

 

 

 

Final revised products

After I had handed in my products I recieved feedback from my assessor, I then created a focus group and asked for their feedback, as well as asking individuals.
I then made changes that I thought necessary, my revised products can be seen below:

This is my improved front cover....

 

This is my improved contents page. My audience wanted "more on the page" as "it looks too blank" therefore I added more content visually- as seen across the bottom of the page. A quote insert- giving an insight into one of the articles and a speech bubble, which again gives an insight to a different article (Different is Good) through a screen shot of the text.

I also added a website (as done on the front cover) to brand the page to my magazine more.

The swirly brush behind the title brings the three main colours (grey, purple and pink) together and finishes off this page, whilst maintaining the feminine appearance and feel I was aiming for.

 

 

Progress Monitoring- Week 6

Progress Monitoring- Week 6

Monday’s lesson consisted of me setting up my page in InDesign. But before I started to do this I asked my classmate Katie to read my article and check for any errors, as well as give feedback. She approved of my article and said that it was “interesting and something I would definitely pick up and read” (See below for my drafted article written up)

I then went on InDesign and set up my page, including margins, columns and leaving picture space. Like with my health article, I found this easy enough to do, but found it hard to imagine the layout without my images and text. Therefore, I added the article into InDesign, which gave me a better idea. I also copied and pasted the banner shape (which I am using for all three articles, in order to maintain a branding to my magazine.)

Tuesday’s aim was for me to go through my front cover, contents page, ‘Happy Never After’ article and my ‘Ladies It’s Time To Indulge’ article to add anything I wanted to/make corrections/complete the products. This lesson wasn’t very well planned and therefore it was up to me which work I chose to complete/edit. I worked on each of my articles and edited minor things and I would say that this lesson was a ‘catch up’ lesson. However, I now wish that I had my photo shoot on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, as this would have given me more time to complete my fashion article- which I had to rush.

Wednesday- This was the day of my photo shoot and I received a text in the morning to say that one of my models (Hannah) was off college ill. This meant that I had to speak to my reserve model (Katie) and ask her to step in, she was a big help and allowed me to complete my photo shoot. I took about 80 images, which gave me a lot of choice. The photo shoot went well and straight after I created a contact sheet in Adobe Bridge. This can be seen below:

Thursday and Friday consisted of me producing my final double page spread. These two days were work-filled and I found it very hard to finish my product in time- I stayed behind after college on Friday in order to reach the deadline. If I were to do my schedule again, I would move my photo shoot forward, which would give me more time to complete my final article. I did complete my product and managed to hand it in on the deadline. Below are the stages of my production:

These are the edited images I used in this article.

First stages: adding images, text boxes, main header, kicker and the start of my article.

Continuing to add text and quote inserts, also a new image/collage on the bottom left of the page.

This is my completed article, which I finished after college on Friday.

 

Progress Monitoring- Week 5

Progress Monitoring- Week 5

Monday & Tuesday- These two lessons consisted of me working in Photoshop to design my contents page. I used the magazine Company as inspiration for my layout as well as a professional look. These two lessons were successful in that I only had a few things to add before my product was complete- I did this during a free lesson on Thursday. Below are the stages of my production:

This is the beginnings of my contents page, I created this in Photoshop and began with two background layers, one grey, one purple.

The blue box contains some of the content of my magazine.

I then added a pink brush stroke to separate some of the content

and to stick to the feminine colour scheme.

I then added more content and some text over the pink brush stroke. I also added a picture of one of my models to the right of the text.

 I altered the image slightly and added a second brush stroke- this time blue- to the right hand side of the page. This has "pg 22" written across it, giving an indication to my audience as to where this image is found in relation to the rest of my magazine. This is the final product of my contents page, which I completed on Thursday as homework.

 

Wednesday- I was excused from college for the day in order to visit a potential university.

Friday- Today I have written up the first draft of my fashion article. I have not yet completed this, so as homework over the weekend I will complete this and during Monday’s lesson I will ask a peer to read over it for me.

Overall this week hasn’t been that successful in terms of work load, as I missed Wednesday’s lesson, however I am aware of what needs to be done to catch up and am very pleased that I have now completed my contents page.

Progress Monitoring- Week 4

This week I challenged myself to do a lot of work and overall I think I did relatively well.

Monday- I worked on my health article and made quite a lot of progress, I then set myself the task of completing this during free lessons.

This is the beginning of my double page spread before I carried out the phpto shoot. I have used the same colour and styled banner running across the top of the page, as I did for my first article. This makes my magazine branded and appear professional.

After my photo shoot I placed one of the photos onto the first page to test it's appearance.

I then edited this photo in Photoshop. Using tools such as Auto Tone, Dodge, Brightness/Contrast, Healing Brush Tool, and more.

This was my product after inserting the new edited image and text. I added a breakout box and the main header as well as the kicker.

 

 

I then added quote inserts and a shape (bottom right) to fill the page. I also moved the image to the centre in order to break up the text and added a third column, which I think works well.

This was the final product of my health article.

 

 



Tuesday- today I began to work on my front cover. At the beginning of the year I created a mock up front cover for a women’s lifestyle genre. I used this mock up as a template and I think that this worked well and made my production a lot easier to do. (See below for the mock up front cover used)

I started the lesson by editing the image of Louise, this was done in Photoshop and didn’t take long.

The original image

This was the image after editing

Adding the masthead, banner and some sell lines.

Wednesday- I continued to work on my front cover, adding more sell lines, a bar code, etc.

 

Friday- I completed my front cover, here is the final product:

  

Homework- I was completed my health article as homework, however this proved difficult, due to computer problems I lost a big section of my English coursework before the deadline- therefore my priority outside of lessons this week has been to rewrite that, as it is due today (Friday). If I have any remaining time after completing my other products I may go back and edit this article further, however I am relatively happy with my product.

My fonts were all installed in a free lesson on Monday, therefore the production of my front cover was made easier.  

Happy Never After Construction

This is the article written up:

This was my original mock up article:

 

This was my mock up article. I was very pleased with the work I achieved, but thought I could improve it. I asked a focus group what their thoughts were (this group consisted of people who I would consider to be my target audience.)

 

I then redrafted my product and handed it in:

 

My assessor then gave me feedback and I also put together another focus group and asked for their opinions, both positive and critical.

 

My final product can be seen on the post 'Final Revised Poducts'