Planning:
1) Write a 100 word statement of intent explaining what you are going to make for your preliminary exercise.
I plan to produce a two-page spread for a magazine discussing an author's recent book, about power and rediscovering yourself in order to improve lifestyle. To communicate this, the main image will use direct address, emphasising the strength of the author. To accompany the main image, I will use a series of photos of the author in order to allow readers to connect with them. I will use a clean, sans serif font for the text to give the company a modern, fresh feel.
The body of the second page will discuss how readers can improve their self-confidence and be proud of themselves, to improve the way they live and carry themselves. The tone of the text will be encouraging and heavily informative.
2) Write an outline for your preliminary exercise on your blog. This needs to include talking points and photo lists. To see how a magazine is presented, and to look at professional examples, check out the following link which gives lot of tips and tricks on how to layout and plan your magazine.
Talking points for the text:
- Experiences the author had that made them doubt, and how they overcame them
- Lessons the author has learned over the course of their life
- How these lessons can be applied to the life of other people
3) Casting: Who will be in your magazine?
I will feature two or three of my friends in my magazine depending on availability.
4) Plan your locations: Where you will shoot your preliminary exercise? (You can take photos off-site if you wish to do this for homework - this is what we would strongly recommend). Important note: You CANNOT take any students out of any other lessons OR disturb any other lessons in the school. If you wish to take shots in-school then you will need to shoot with Mr Ray supervising or after school with a Media teacher present.
I will shoot the photos for the preliminary exercise in and around Greenford/Northolt.
5) Write your shot list: every shot you plan to film. This needs to be far MORE shots than you will actually use in the final edited version - plan extra angles, close-ups, long shots and more. You can find an example shot list here. This is for a narrative film but the layout will be the same.
> Medium close-up shot for the main image on the front cover
> Multiple images at different angles and distances for the single-page spread
