The document outlines the production process for a magazine, including: 1) Managers from all departments will create a pre-production plan with timelines and deadlines. Budgets for staff pay, office rent, marketing, website costs, and printing are allocated. 2) An editorial board will create a content plan deciding topics and items for the new issue. Authors are given budgets for reporting and assigned photographers and equipment. 3) Stories and articles are written, photographs taken, and content added to pages by graphic designers using software like Photoshop and InDesign. Sub-editing checks facts and style. Layout staff use InDesign to typeset pages.

1. Production Process
Data and Time scale,the managersfrom all the departmentswillcome togethertocreate a pre-
productionplan.Theywill thenplanthisonatimescale where deadlineswillbe setandeverything
will be organisedaroundwhentheyhave tobe completed.Whenthe contentstarts tobe produced
the pre-productionhasfinishedandthe productionbegins.Theymaymake atime line onexcel to
planand make it clearerwhatitsgoingto happen.The staff will be paidintotal £82,000 annually.
The office rentwill have tobe paidat the start of the monthwhichwill be £37.25 permonth.The
marketingbudgetwill be £5,000 for the monthand the website will be ano off costof £6,000. All
the budgetswill be discussedatthe verybeginningasitisa baseduponlast issuessales.
Managing the Schedule - There will thenbe acontentplanfor all the pages.Thishelpstodecide
where theywill decide whattopicsthe magazine will coverandeverythingwhichthe new issue is
goingto include.The peopleinvolvedinthiswillbe all the membersof the editorial boardtomake
sure the plan iscorrect.
Editorial and budgetary decision - All thissoftware will costaround £57.16 per month.Whichfor
my magazine wouldbe perissue.Afterthe magazine hadbeenboughttogetherintoacomplete
copy the editorswill lookthroughittomake sure that’swhattheywant and the magazine will be
proof read to make sure that there are no spellingorgrammar problems.Thenthe magazine will
start to be mass producedreadyforrelease.Tomake 15,000 copiesasmy magazine isdoingit’ll cost
£8,529.43. For distributingthe magazine onlinewill onlycost£720.
ContentAcquisition- A detailedplanisthenmade foreachstorywhichwill feature inthe magazine.
The type of storywill be decidedandif itwill be inthe fromof an interview,newsstory,featuresetc.
One of these will be decidedwhichwillputacrossthe story to the bestto the audience.A mockup
designisalsocreatedsoa graphicdesignerwillbe usedtocreate thiswhichwill probablyneeda
computeras there equipment.A detaileddescriptionwill be giventothe editorbythe author on
whattheyare goingto write about.Atthistime whenthe authorsare writingandgathering
informationforthere storyabudgetfromthe pre-production planwillbe allocatedtoeach
journalistforthemtospendon,travel,photos,interviewsetc.Theymayalsoneedtobe provided
witha photographertotake photosand a computerto write there story.The nextstage afterall the
storiesandarticleshave beenwrittenandthe photographshave beentakenitwill be addedtothe
magazine pagesbya graphic designer. Theywill needtouse designingsoftware suchas;Photoshop
whichwill be usedmanipulate the photos,Adobe InDesignwill designthe page layoutandif the
magazine will be putontoa website theymayneedtouse Adobe Dreamweavertodesignthe whole
website.A macwill be the bestcomputertouse as theyhave verygood software forediting.
Sub-editing– Thisisfor qualitycontrol.Mixmagsub-editinginvolvescheckingthe accuracyof all the
facts inthe article,spell checking,checkinggrammarandpunctuation,all articlesfollow the house
style.

2. Page Layout – Mixmagwill have layoutstaff andtheirjobsisto typesetandlayoutthe various
pages.Theywill use DesktopPublishingsoftware suchasIndesign.Advertsare thenplacedintothe
issue.
Proof reading– the editorial departmentwill readthroughthe whole hardcopyof the magazine to
try and correct mistakes.Mistakesare correctedon the DTP files.The wholeteamkeeps
proofreading.
File emailedtoprinter – The magazine isthensenttothe printers.The pre-pressisdefinedasthe
processof checkingto make sure that all the fontsand imagesneededare withthe file.Thenthe
printercompanysendssome printerproofswhichissentbefore all the copiesare made if the
editorsare happywithit.
Distribution– thisisthe last stage where the magazinesare sentoff a warehouse wheretheyare
packagedto be sentoff to shopsto be sold.