magazine Ancillary task guide

Blogging Task

Billboard

1.     Analyse 3 existing products —  Choose the billboards. Annotate the billboards for: —  Colour palette  —  Protagonist —   Camera shots —  Intertextuality —  Camera angles —  Semiotics —  Genre —  Representation —  Audience —  Narrative —  Connation —  Denotation —  Theory (youth-Hall, Hebdige, gender-Mulvey, race-Malik, Barthes-signs and enigma code, Medhurst-awful because they are not like us.)

2.     Genre and institution research Billboard conventions: what is expected, common conventions: —  Choose one Billboard to annotate. List what you expect to see in them, consider: —  Layout —  Colour —  Text use —  Content —  Image features Research into the billboard institution: —  How are they created —  The cost of creation —  How much does it cost to have a billboard displayed. —  How magazine use a billboard —  When they started —  Successful examples —  Technological developments.

3.     Survey monkey on what the TA want What is your age? What is your gender? What are your hobbies? What genre of magazine, film, documentary do you like? What features do you like in magazine, film, documentary? What colours schemes  do you find appealing? ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features, style, writing vs image ratio,  (film and doc) ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features Locations to promote, (mag)

4.     Design 3 flat plans ·      Draw out in pencil what the basic layout for your billboard will be ·      Annotate why these will appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the product.

5.     Photography research ·      Look at an overview of technological advancements in photography and how this would impact your photography. ·      What styles of photography are used in your type of magazine? ·      Research a photographers style that you like. ·      Collect images of the photography you like and annotate why this will appeal to your audience.

6.     Lighting Research ·      What types of lighting are used in photography? ·      What impact does this have on the images? ·      What kind of lighting will you use and why?

7.     Original images ·      Publish all your images ·      Annotate ones that you like and why these would appeal to your audience ·      Comment on why these would be used and effective in your magazine.

8.     Journal reflection on the photoshoot

9.     Screen grabs of editing

10.  Draft Billboard

11.  Final Billboard

Website front and double page listing

12.   Analyse 3 similar website pages —  Choose the website Annotate the website for: —  Layout —  Text use —  Fonts —  Lexis —  Colour palette  —  Camera shots in photos —  Intertextuality —  Camera angles in photos —  Semiotics —  Genre —  Representation —  Audience —  Narrative —  Connation —  Denotation —  Theory (youth-Hall, Hebdige, gender-Mulvey, race-Malik, Barthes-signs and enigma code, Medhurst-awful because they are not like us.)

13.  Genre and institution work Website genre: what is expected, common conventions: —  Choose one trailer/poster to annotate. List what you expect to see in them, consider: —  Layout —  Colour —  Text use —  Content —  Page features Research into the website institution: —  How are they created —  The cost of creation —  How much is spent on upkeep of websites for the regional magazine. —  How magazine use their websites —  How the internet and websites have impacted on the magazine industry —  How the magazine companies have responded to the internet.

14.  Survey monkey on what the TA want What is your age? What is your gender? What are your hobbies? What genre of magazine, film, documentary do you like? What features do you like in magazine, film, documentary? What colours schemes  do you find appealing? ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features, style, writing vs image ratio,  (film and doc) ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features Locations to promote, (mag)

15.  Sections research on the websites for content Screen grab and annotate the sections to show what you have found: —  What sections you find in a website —  What the links are —  What the other pages contain —  Who the sections appeal to —  How the sections link to the main product.

16.  Masthead ideas ·      Screen shot text ideas ·      Annotate why they would appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the genre of website ·      How they fit on the website in layout.

17.  Title ideas The same research and design process that came up with your title for your main magazine, copy this over from your other post.

18.  Flat plans for each section ·      Draw out in pencil what the basic layout for your posters will be ·      Annotate why these will appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the product.

19.  Photography research ·      Look at an overview of technological advancements in photography and how this would impact your photography. ·      What styles of photography are used in your type of website? ·      Research a photographers style that you like. ·      Collect images of the photography you like and annotate why this will appeal to your audience.

20.  Lighting research ·      What types of lighting are used in photography? ·      What impact does this have on the images? ·      What kind of lighting will you use and why?

21.  Equipment list

22.  Original images

23.  Journal reflection on the photoshoot

24.  Screen grabs of editing

25.  Draft website

26.  Final website