The Brief

Your chosen topic: Print

Preliminary exercise:

Using Adobe Photoshop produce the front page of a new college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a Photoshop mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of the program.

Research and Planning:

You must present your research and planning in a digital format (although it can be produced on paper so long as it is uploaded to your blog).

Each of you will conduct research into the audiences and institutions within the magazine industry and you will also develop plans that show consideration of your own ideas that will lead into the construction task. Additionally, you will need to plan shoots, book locations and draft layouts of your products.

Construction:

You will create the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be original and produced by you. A minimum of four images must be produced (per candidate).

Evaluation:

You should see the evaluation as a creative task and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources. Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or video presentations.

Mark Scheme:

G321 is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation.