pro forma

1. Factual:
Idea Development and Planning
Harriet Smith

2. Task 2: Idea Development and Planning U9 2.1
You could create a mood board of images related to your product. They could be inspirational or visually interesting.
Analyse what you have gathered.
Decide on content and think about how you will structure your piece – consider the conventions of your chosen
style/genre, think about the best methods to appeal to your audience.
Finally work out a production schedule for the project. Once you have a final proposal, begin to plan how you intend to
realise your project and what you will need to create/collect.
Planning will vary depending on if you are doing a web series, podcast or a fanzine.
Web-series: A script, storyboard, organisational docs and clearance forms for your contributors/sources.
Fanzine: Content outline, visual style, pagination, organisational documents.
Podcast: Script, organisational docs, clearance forms for your contributors/sources.

4. Mood Board Analysis
• The key features I would want to include in my own product from the already existing products is the similar
sort of layouts they use e.g. having the main title in the center of the page and then having an image and/or
an array of images overlapped to make the cover look more interesting and eye-catching. I would also want
to use the same similar colour schemes used which were mainly brighter/vibrant colours. When looking at
all of the images I have collected I’ve noticed that they all have a similar simple art style, having an image
used as a background whilst having the main title overlapped on top. I also found that a lot of the covers
frequently use subheadings that were either present at the header or the footer.
• I also liked a lot of the font styles used e.g. a lot of the fonts were quite cursive which I think appeals more
rather than just having a plain bold font. Looking at these covers has helped me to see what works well in
terms of colour schemes and how they fit in with the overall theme of the book/magazine/comic. The
images I have collected for my mood board will help me to create my final product since they’ve helped to
influence on what I think would look well for the layout of my fanzine e.g. how I want it to look and the
colours I want to use as well as the kinds of fonts I want to add for my titles/subheadings. I think that this
will definitely help me to create a product that attracts my audience.

5. Content:
I plan to create to create a fanzine based on the aspect of books and how they are adapted into movies as well as talking about
the differences between the original and the movie adaption. I would also want to try speculate as to why the movie had made
certain changes e.g. How/Why would the movie decide to change certain parts of the film? What is the process of creating the
film and how they decide what bits to film and what bits to leave out?
I would also want to explore the aspects of how the book/film impacts the reader e.g. how it made them feel, what they liked
and what they disliked about it. I think that writing about famous books/films is a good idea since a large majority of people will
have read/watched those kinds of books e.g. Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars. However I would also want to make sure that
the book(s)/film(s) I choose are ones that I’ve seen myself. This will help me to point out the clear differences between the
original and the adaptation. I think that the best way to appeal to my audience will be talking about things that will interest
them e.g. since I’ve chosen an older audience I think that they would be more interested in books and movie adaptations as
well as how/why the movie differs from the original. I think if I had chosen a younger audience I don’t think that would have
been as interested behind the scenes of the movies and would prefer just to watch or even just read the book.
I will apply my mood board into my final product by including similar colours I had seen in the products I had researched e.g.
bright/vibrant colours such as yellow, orange, blue, red. I will also apply the similar kinds of layouts I’ve seen e.g. having an
image(s) used for the background and then having the main title overlapped on top. The use of subheadings was also used
frequently either at the header or the footer, I think that I would also want to incorporate this into my own product. I plan to
create experiments where I can test out my ideas to see what goes well and what doesn’t go as well. From there I’ll be able to
see what I need to improve on and how I can do that. I think that it’s also a good idea to also ask my intended audience about
my experiments and get their opinions as to what I’ve done right and what I might done have done as well at. This will also help
me to see what I need to improve on.

6. Planning:
I intend to create a fanzine based on the aspect of books and how they are adapted into movies as well as talking about
the differences between the original and the movie adaption. I would also want to try speculate as to why the movie had
made certain changes e.g. How/Why would the movie decide to change certain parts of the film? What is the process of
creating the film and how they decide what bits to film and what bits to leave out?
In order to create this I did research into different book genre’s e.g. ‘Teen Fiction’, ‘Sci-Fi’, ‘Fantasy’ as well as different films
that were adapted from famous book, making sure to note any similarities or differences that I saw. From there I decided
how I would want to do the layout of my product such as how I wanted it to look, what colours what I want/wanted to use
and any fonts that I think would be appropriate. For my product I intend to use bright/vibrant colour such as orange,
yellow, pink, red. Before I start to create my final product I plan to create experiments to see what works well and what
doesn’t work as well. I plan to create 2-3 experiments, using a variety of different colours and layouts to see what I think
looks good and works well. In terms of software I need in order to create this, I’ll mainly need Photoshop to create and
edit my experiments/my actual product as well as PowerPoint in order to show and explain how I create my product and
why I chose to do certain things.
When thinking about the overall layout of my cover, in terms of where I want the text and various other images might use,
I think I would want to have the information I use spread out between two pages so that the text doesn’t look crowded
and looks more spaced out. This will also allow me to put in different images that are relevant to what I’m talking about as
well. This will make my product look more appealing rather than just having a blank page full of text and nothing else. I
would also want to consider using different fronts e.g. using a cursive font for my main title on the page.

7. Production Schedule:
Week 1: Create the experiments in Photoshop (2-3 in total)
In order to create experiments I will need the Photoshop software in order to create the product and then use PowerPoint to use
the screenshots I will take to explain what I did and why I chose to do it.
Week 1/2: Go over experiments created and think about how to improve on what I had created.
(Could also ask for opinions from my intended audience)
Ask intended audience what they think of my product and ask them for ways to improve and make my product better in terms of
colour, layout etc…
Week 2: Start to create final product, using experiments as reference as what to make.
Begin to create final product using experiments as reference to make my product as good as possible. I will need the Photoshop
software in order to create this.
Week 3: Continue to create final product.
Using experiments as reference to make my final product looks as good as possible. I will need the Photoshop software in order
to create this.
Week 4: Finish making final product and start writing “Production Reflection”.
I must make sure to take screenshots of my work process in order to write up my “Production Reflection”.
Week 4/5: Continue to write “Production Reflection”.
I must make sure to take screenshots of my work process in order to write up my “Production Reflection”.