Monday, 15 March 2010

Self Progress

We're close on finishing the front covers and also we're half way through the articles

Action Plan

Book camera and take photos of staff v student match, Finish draft of articles and finish front cover.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Weekly Progress Report and Action Plan

Weekly Progress Report:

We created mock up sketches of our initial ideas and also now created a mock up on the computer to see the basic idea of what the magazine cover would look like. However it was on publisher, as no one in our group has photoshop at home, but it's the basic look of how we want it and with photoshop we can do it properly.

Action Plan:

Mock up of the articles, actual text and layout and also improve on the magazine front cover mock-ups. Start using photoshop to edit the front cover and create a first draft. Consider what pictures we are going to take ourselves, wether sticking to the furure stars aspect or having actual photo's taken by going to an actual match or outside the stadium.

Magazine mock-up

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Action Plan

Week 1- More research in magazines which target A/B readers. What conventions and techniques will be similar to ours?

Week 2- Decide on masthead of magazine. Also starting on the magazine cover.

Week 3- Finish magazine cover and half way through first magazine article.

Week 4- Finish the copy of the first article and starting second article.

Week 5- Complete second article and check all work for any improvements.

Planning and Research

Research:

From looking at various sports magazine front covers we have an idea of what the front cover is, which is have one image of a famous athlete, which is what is common on sports magazines, also in newspaper ones. As the audience is now changed to a more A/B audience, it's going to look more sophisticated and simple. The main athlete would be David Beckham as it corresponds to one of the articles that we are doing. The first article is going to be on the 10 most influential footballers of the decade and the second is going to be a preview of the upcoming French Open and Wimbledon tennis grand slams. We are also going to use Adobe Photoshop to make the magazines, and we will be using the same layout that other sports magazines use for their articles, A/B sport magazines use such as Four-Four-Two and Observer monthly.

Weekly Progress:

We know what we're going to do for each artcle and the front cover by looking at research on other sports magazines. We know that we will be using Dacid Beckham as the main image for the front cover and also the two articles. The first article is going to be on the 10 most influential footballers of the decade and the second is going to be a preview of the upcoming French Open and Wimbledon tennis grand slams. We also know what we will write about for both articles.

Self Evaluation

WWW:

Well paced Presentation
Worked well as a pair
Good use of media terminology
Range of appropriate images
Researched genre

EBI:

Change audience class from C/D to A/B
Make slide simple
Use less words on slides
Don't use sentences
More detail on slides