Deadlines for planning stage

Deadlines

16^th January: House style

-Name of the magazine – related to the genre of the magazine

-Font(s) of the masthead and throughout the magazine

-Font of the masthead should relate to the genre of the magazine

-Colour scheme – look back on the charts

-Plan what pictures should be taken

-Deciding a price, possibly theme, and amount of pages

-Theme should target your audience and the genre

-Initial layout of front cover, contents page and double page spread on blog

23^rd January: Front cover

-Possibly second draft of front cover

-Planning the image (shot types, setting ect.)

-Take the photographs and analyse (must be before the 10^th of Feb)

-Planning the layering based on your initial layout

-Planning the placement/positioning (of masthead and cover-lines)

-Deciding the cover-lines – pull quotes etc

-Detailed layout of the front cover

30^th January: Contents page

-Possibly second draft of contents page

-Planning the images (shot types, setting ect.)

-Take the photographs and analyse (must be before the 10^th of Feb)

-Deciding the content

-Use pull quotes and bold fonts to make bits stand out

-Detailed layout of the contents page

6^th February: Double page spread

-Possibly a second draft of double page spread

-Decide what your main article will be about

-Have a beginning stage of your article

-Planning the image (shot types, setting ect.)

-Take the photographs and analyse (must be before the 10^th of Feb)

-Plan and create a headline/subheading and stand-first

10^th February all above must be done.