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.