MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Production Process

1. Choose an appropriate Style model

2. Prepare

• Choose someone to interview
• Think about what it is you want to ask, what you want them to say.
• Think about the focus and theme of interview
• Try to get beyond the surface, the obvious (the boring?) – think Erving Goffman (front / back regions) or the Johari Window.
• Do your research – what psychographic profile is your interviewee? What character / personality type is your interviewee (homework task)
• Use key language.

2. Produce

Body Text

• Interview your interviewee
• then interview them again
• then interview them again
• make notes when you interview them (or record it)
• build your notes and ideas into a NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
• Use key terms, quotes, stats and other data to show your research and your knowledge
• Type up your interview into word and email into school (homework task)

Layout using Adobe InDesign

• Make sure your technology works (school log-on, Adobe Creative Suite – both in school and at home)
• Follow classroom instructions on how to use InDesign.
• Follow your style model for guidance – particularly in terms of the graphic elements – lines, shapes, colours, small details etc
• Save any work you produce in a single folder (call it induction work) this folder should be created on your M Drive – organising your work is really important, as is keeping a back-up. If you lose your work you will have to start all over again from the beginning.

Some layout suggestions / feedback

Taking a photograph

• Follow instructions from Dr M on how to take a simple ‘head and shoulder’ photograph, using studio ‘flash lighting’ and the infinity screen – which is in your Media classroom. In other words, don’t take / use your own photo! Get into the habit of taking high quality, ORIGINAL photographs.
• Make sure you save your photograph along with your other work in your own folder on the M Drive which will also have your InDesign work. Organising your work is really important, as is keeping a back-up. If you lose your work you will have to start all over again from the beginning.

Processing your Photograph

• For this task you will need to edit your original (high quality) photograph to create a line drawing / pencil sketch.
• The video below will help – but there are other ways of doing this, the main aim is to transform your colour photograph into a black and white line drawing / sketch.

Publishing

• This is a print product, so print it out TO THE CORRECT SIZE – for this product you will need to print out at A3 and crop using a guillotine
• Make sure your the file that you print out is save to a HIGH RESOLUTION to ensure high quality.
• Also, save your digital file as a low resolution file which you can upload to the blog

Evaluate, reflect and assess

• Let’s spend some time looking at all of the productions and asssessing them – using the assessment criteria that we have looked at before (see another link below)
• Write in your note-book some reflections of how you can improve your work for next time.