2. • Create a blog and personalise it best you can –
you can continue to change it…
• Take photos and use Photoshop to create the
cover and contents page for a school magazine.
Don’t bust a gut over this, but get the pages
posted on your blog with a few comments about
what you did.
• Using various presentational methods, post
research on your blog – start with at least three
magazine covers, three double-paged articles,
three contents pages. Put them in three different
posts.
• By the end of the academic year, you need over
60 posts, which is not too hard to do…
3. • Methods you could use: slideshare, slideboom,
prezi, buubl.us, animoto, go-animate, emaze,
slide.s, zoho, powtoon, metachart, pollsnack and –
many more. If you find a good one, tell other
people. You’ll have to register for these (avoid the
sections that ask for money) and you’ll need to
post the embed code – after you’ve clicked html
NOT compose. You’ll work it out.
• Some of these will require you to post straight to
the site but others will need a powerpoint
presentation to upload.
• You should also aim to do a podcast every couple
of weeks, perhaps summing up what you’ve done.
You can upload this on Soundcloud
4. • A post on Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth –
ask if you’re stuck
• A post on Marjorie Ferguson’s theory about
facial types on magazine covers
• Blumler and Katz’ Uses and Gratifications and
how magazines fulfil the four needs
• A post on three magazine
publishers/distributors – one of which should
be Bauer – brief descriptions of all three
• A post on the significance of magazine reader
profiles – do this by looking at one in
particular. You can find these on the net
5. • A pitch for your magazine – be specific about
PRIMARY target audience in terms of gender
and age. Secondary target audience can be
more loosely defined. Does your magazine have
a unique selling point? What does it do that
others don’t? How does it reach its audience?
• A questionnaire into the needs of your target
audience – you could do this on Survey
Monkey. I would suggest that you skew the
results so they are the answers you want…
• Post your results in the form of pie charts or
bar charts and make sure you make some kind
of comment on their significance
6. • Create a reader profile for your own magazine
• Sketch out some initial flatplans – these will
have to be scanned and posted
• Masthead designs – you can use font sites but
at the moment, the better ones seem to be
blocked – you can select several and ask your
‘target audience’ to evaluate one and,
surprise, surprise, it will choose exactly the
one you want!
• Keep doing podcasts. If you want to be really
ambitious, speak to a camera and post that!
7. • Complete a photo analysis. See here:
http://hannahwoodmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/phot
o-analysis-all-saints.html
• And here:
http://hannahwoodmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/phot
o-analysis-oasis.html
• Take some initial photographs but when you start
working on them, you will need to post evidence of your
progression – so lots of screen-shots and comments…
• Write your article/feature – make sure you capture the
right tone. Mode of address is important. Use the right
kind of language – so have a look at something similar
and see how it’s done. You need at least TWO sides of a
word document, Times New Roman font; size 12. Don’t
set it out in columns because you’ll be transferring it to
InDesign later.
8. • Write your article/feature – make sure you
capture the right tone. Mode of address is
important. Use the right kind of language – so
have a look at something similar and see how
it’s done. You need at least TWO sides of a
word document, Times New Roman font; size
12. Don’t set it out in columns because you’ll
be transferring it to InDesign later.
