RESEARCH AND PLANNING

A REMINDER OF THE MARK SCHEMEA/ B: Level 4 16–20 marks

Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is excellent. 

Style Sheet

A style sheet allows you to present your ideas for the key stylistic elements of your magazine quickly and simply.

It will help you organise your thoughts and ideas

It will allow others to see what you have planned

It will let you receive feedback on your magazine without having to make it

It should contain:

Examples of fonts you will use for your Masthead, cover lines and body copy

Examples of the kind of photography you will include – these can be found images for illustration purposes only

Examples of the colour scheme you expect to use in your magazine

Example style sheet

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This is a font the main body text will be written in.

BluesBluesBlues

Potential fonts for article headings

These are the types of images I will use. They are a mixture of live shots and high quality portraits

Colour scheme

Example style sheet

Example style sheet

Example style sheet

Flat plans

Flat plans are simple drawings of a page layout that show where the different text, picture and graphic elements will go on a page.

Flat plans give designers the chance to experiment with a wide variety of different layouts quickly and easily, before coming to a final decision on page layout.

They will allow you to experiment and try and find a layout you are happy with before going into production.

This helps to cut down on production time and leads to a product which has been clearly thought out.

Flat plans

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Flat plans

From these simple first draft outlines you can then produce a more detailed plan which incorporates some example content

This will help to give you a better idea of how your page might look.

Example Layout

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Article Heading

Text TextText

Text

Information bar

www.bluesmag.co.uk www.bluesmag.co.uk

Example Front Cover

Additional cover line

Additional cover line

Picture

Here is a basic layout for a front cover along with an example image

Main Sell line

Additional cover line

MASTHEAD

Example Front Cover

Plaung live again

New releasesGigs

Peter GreenLightnin’ Hopkins

HistoryThe blues progression

Playing live again

Rory Gallagher

Plus:

This example brings together the basic layout with examples of fonts and pictures to make the front cover.

BLUES

Getting good marks

In order to gain high marks you must show that you have drafted a range of ideas. One single idea will not get high marks

You need to present your work clearly and neatly. Badly presented work will not get high marks

You need to make sure you manage you time well, so that you hit your deadlines and you produce a good range of work

Work on layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.

Care taken in the presentation of research and planning

Time management

Grading Criteria

Over to you

Now it’s your turn to produce a style sheet and a flat plan / mock up

Look at what you have found in your research and use it to inform and influence your design

Your project should have a clear progression from research to planning and then to production