The Project overview

Task 1

18.1/ 11.2: Research the print industry; what are the following- hand crafted printing, mechanical printing and digital printing; explain with examples in each category. How is print distributed and has this changed over the last fifty decades?

Task 2

11. 3: Collect research and prepare a 1000 word report explaining with supporting arguments and examples, financial issues and current market trends in the print based media industries.

Task 3

11.1/ 11.2/ 11.3/ 50.4: Produce a PowerPoint on the following:

- what job opportunities are open to people in the Print industry?

- what types of contracts are offered?

- what professional bodies are affiliated with the industry?

- what are the legal and ethical issues that affect this industry?

-what do you think are the responsibilities and obligations that a journalist holds?

Task 4

50.3 Consider a number of different audiences and how printed material is designed with the audience in mind. Produce an annotated report on a variety of printed material that clearly targets different audiences. Produce some mock ups of articles that you have written for different audiences.

Task 5

50.1/ 50.2: Carry out some primary and secondary research to gather information about your target audiences’ reading habits and their needs and wants with regard to the magazine. Include research on stakeholders; for example parents/ governors/ teachers etc. Ensure you store and manage the research and tag appropriately.

Task 6

18.2/ 51.1/ 51.2/ 51.3: Produce a 2000 treatment for your magazine explaining in detail your proposals for the factual copy, the design layout, illustrations, competitions, and marketing strategies to ensure the magazine is commercially viable. Please include mock ups of pages as examples for each category (design layout/ copy/ illustrations/ marketing/ competitions)

Task 7

52.1/ 18.3: Produce a 1000 word production plan for your magazine explaining what technology will be needed to produce the magazine and what qualities you think your magazine needs to imbibe to ensure that it is an effective factual communication; please include in this plan time schedules/ deadlines and roles and responsibilities within the group.

Task 8

18.3/ 52.2/ 52.3: Produce a magazine according to the design brief agreed at your meetings with your clients (this will be fictitious in most cases).

Task 9

18.4/ 52.4/ 51.4 Produce a 2000 word evaluation of your magazine. Use the evaluation model to produce this.

Stakeholders

 Include research on stakeholders; for example sponsors/ advertisers etc. You will need to use your research to form your ideas about the design, layout and content of the magazine. Ensure you store and manage the research and tag appropriately. Remember it is needed as evidence so electronic storage will need to be backed up.Evidence of completed questionnaires and surveys from stakeholders (can be fictitious)

Tasks for Magazine Research task 5

You will need to do the following tasks for your magazine research:
1. Produce an ideas sheet for a magazine of your choice. Decide on

• content
• advertising
• target audience (remember for the target audinece you need to state whether male/ female, and then consider the psychographics, geodemographics, socio economic status etc (see pages 50/51)

2. Market research; research what other magazines are being sold in the genre of your magazine (your competitors). Write a report on content, layout and design, advertising etc. Gather evidence of readers from www.nrs.co.uk

3. Find out about your target audience and their needs and wants; this could be using questinnaires and surveys. Compile tables of the results and remember to gather both quantitative and qualitative data

4. All your work should be presented using a header with your production name and logo, title of production, date, your name and client's name (as per examples in the classroom)

Magazine Production Tasks 1,2,3 & 4

Magazine Production
Task
1.
Research the three types of printing- hand crafted, mechanical and digital. Explain the different techniques within these types and the technologies used, providing examples of each.A research document with illustrated evidence explaining each of the three main types of printing and the various techniques within each type.

2.Write a 1000 word essay describing the print industry and the types of printing and techniques. Why is this industry so important and what are the challenges facing it in the 21st century? Describe the techniques and technologies; consider why it is so important- printed literature wherever you look, education, health, politics without print? How has it changed in the 21st century? Advent of internet, blackberries, desk top publishing; is the role of mechanical printing still valid? Will we always need mechanical printing? Think about books, newspapers, magazines etc?1000 word essay or combine tasks 1 & 2 into one document
3.
PowerPoint:· What job opportunities are open to people in the Print industry? This is similar to what you investigated on chapter 6· What types of contracts are offered? You will need to look at adverts for the print industry- are the contracts permanent, casual etc?· What professional bodies are affiliated with the industry? Unions like NUJ etc?· What are the legal and ethical issues that affect this industry? Explore the Press Complaints Commission site; use your notes from our visit· What do you think are the responsibilities and obligations that a journalist holds? NUJ has some information on this including the code of conduct
PowerPoint
4.
Consider a number of different audiences and how printed material is designed with the audience in mind. Produce an annotated report on a variety of front pages of magazines that clearly target different audiences (teenager, child male, female, general). Produce some mock ups of front pages for these audiences.
Collect a selection of articles for different genres and then write a selection (three) for different audiences. 200 words

Unit 3 Research Learning Outcomes

For this unit you need to show that you:

1. understand what the research techniques are for example; the difference between production and market research and the differences between primary and secondary research; what research methods are available and what type of data can be gathered (qualitative & qualitative); and what research institutions can be accessed to gather data.
2. be able to apply these methods to your own research for your documentary ie: gathering secondary research and primary research on your topic.
3. can present a PowerPoint explaining the above.

Magazine Evaluation

Produce a 2000 word evaluation of your magazine.
1. What was your brief- what magazine did you intend to produce?
2. Who was your target audience and what research did you carry out to establish what kind of magazine they would read?
3. How did you adjust your ideas to meet the brief and the target audience?
4. What were the successes of your production?- explain in detail key elements of the magazine and how you achieved them.
5. What would you change in terms of the production in terms of targeting your audience more closely or do you think that you have already achieved this?
6. How did you fully utilise the technology and were there any issues between the digital element and the mechanical printing?
7. When were you most successful; working on your own or working in collaboration?
8. What constraints did working with like this place on you?
9. What feedback have you received from the first edition?
10. What is the ideal team to assemble for a magazine production and what advice would you give others starting their own magazine?
11. If you had the opportunity to start from scratch what would you propose to produce for your magazine- give an outline plan and include a mock up.Please ensure you explain your answers fully.

Factual Documentary

A showing of your DVDs will be arranged for the last week of this term; please ensure your DVDs are completed by then.