1. Assignment 1 Comics Task 2 & 3 Name ________________________________
1 Planning
Audience – age, gender
Style and genre of comic
How are you going to
design a front cover that
will attract your audience
2 Design
Title. Why?
Design masthead and
logo
What style of font. Why?
3 Content
What sort of
articles/competitions/free
bies will you have on the
front cover? Why?
What type of
characters/images will
you include? Why?
Character profiles.
How are you going to
use colour on the front
cover. Explain choice of
colours
4 Layout
Draw a mock-up of your
front cover. Use frame
boxes to indicate where
different features will be
placed
Decide which features to
include and why?
Audience research
5 Production
Having drawn up a
mock-up on either A5 or
A4 of your front cover,
begin to design it
Include original
photography, hand or
computer drawing
Use computer generated
text for part or all of the
front cover.
6 Write Up
Explain how the layout
and design of your front
cover would attract your
target audience. Discuss
representation of
characters featured on
front cover. Bullet points
(100 words)
Refer to other comic examples you have seen when explaining why you have chosen to do something in a
particular way.