This document outlines the pre-production materials and processes for creating a new music magazine called "Musique". It includes details on setting up equipment costs, staff costs, pre-production plans such as hand-drawn drafts, layouts, photography plans, and production schedules. It also provides step-by-step guides for creating elements like the front cover, inside pages, and back cover using desktop publishing tools. The document concludes by discussing font styles, house styles, and an overview of the planning and tools used to produce a high-quality print magazine.

2. Contents
1. LO3
2. Contents
3. Setting Up Equipment
4. Setting Up Equipment
5. Setting Up Equipment
6. Pre-Production Material – Hand
Drawn Drafts
7. Pre-Production Material –
Graphic Layouts
8. Pre-Production Material –
Photography Plan
9. Pre-Production Material – Mind
Map
10. Pre-Production Material – Production Process
11. Pre-Production Material – Production Process
12. Pre-Production Material – Production Plan Table
13. Pre-Production Material – Production Plan Table
14. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools – Step-by-Step Front
Cover
15. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools – Step-by-Step Front
Cover
16. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools – Step-by-Step DPS
17. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools – Step-by-Step Back
Cover
18. Font Style
19. House Style
20. Conclusion

3. Final Front Cover, DPS and Back Cover

4. Equipment Cost
Office space (1500 sq. ft., in London) £13,000
MAC Computers x20 £44,980
Adobe all apps and adobe stock x20 per month £1,011.40
Printer (Lexmark X954de A3 Colour Multifunction Laser Printer) £8,895
Camera (Canon 750D) £489.99
Lighting Equipment £74.95
Paper (A3, 500 sheets)
(A4, 500 sheets)
£6.99
£6.99
Ink for printer (Genuine Lexmark X950X2 Hi-Cap Toner Rainbow Pack CMY (24K) + Black (38K) for Lexmark
X95x Printers)
£1,317
Stationary (BIC Ballpoint Pen Cristal 0.4 mm black Pack 50) £7.99
Desks (Impulse 1800 Left Hand Cantilever Workstation 600 Pedestal White Ref I000542) x20 £5,315
Chairs (Mave Task Operator Chair with Arms Black Mesh Ref EX000193) x20 £1,799
TOTAL COST £76,904.31
Setting Up Equipment

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Setting Up Equipment

6. Staff Cost of all staff
Publisher x1 £29,014
Editors x3 £55,035
Journalists x3 £68,241
Writers x2 £41,338
Photographers x2 £41,258
Marketing x2 £48,000
Graphic designers x2 £36,256
Finances x2 £28,000
HR x2 £60,070
TOTAL COST: £365,874
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Setting Up Equipment

7. Pre-Production Material – Hand Drawn Drafts

8. Pre-Production Material – Graphic Layouts

9. Pre-Production Material – Photography Plan

10. Pre-Production Material – Mind Map
Masthead
'Musique' is the name of this magazine. The inspiration behind this name
is similar to Q magazine, instead the Musique stands for music as that is
the main focus of the magazine. The masthead of the magazine will
include the name, the logo and the strapline of the magazine and will
keep to the colour scheme and target audience.
Magazine Ideas
Colour Scheme
Keep the same as Billboard, this is
black and white.
Frequency
'Musique' will be distributed every 2
weeks, this gives the production team
enough time to produce a good quality
magazine with high resolution images.
Target Audience
My target audience will be
people aged between 15 and
35. This is a specific audience
range so the magazine can be
tailored to meet them.
Brand Identity
Must include the logo on the front
cover for it to be able to recognised
by readers.
The logo and layout of Musique
also helps to keep the brand
identity.
Type of Images
The types of images that will be
included in Musique will be all
in full colour of mainly artists.

11. Pre-Production Material – Production Process
• Date of publication: This will be decided on the Saturday 2 weeks before
the publication (22/12/2018), this will be a Saturday and means that
members of the public can enjoy the magazine over their weekend.
• Managing the schedule: The deadline of every 2 weeks on a Saturday must
be met, this will only happen if everyone involved works together, this
means the plan must be completed on 22/12/2018.
• Editorial and budgeting decisions: These should be kept similar from
fortnight to fortnight but will have to be officially decided and made known
on 22/12/2018.
• Content acquisition: this is where the content will be gathered and will
have to be completed by 25/12/2018, in order for the editors to edit and
create the magazine.
https://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

12. • Sub-editing: this is the quality control of the magazine content and can be done
by the editor, this should be done as the content is acquired to be most efficient.
This should be completed by 29/12/2018.
• Page layout: this is done to make it easy to read the magazine, advertisements
are placed in this stage, and should be finished by the 30/12/2018.
• Proofreading: this is printing of one hard copy to read and correct all mistakes,
this is to be completed by 01/01/2019.
• File emailed to printer: the entire magazine is sent and printed by the company
and should be completed by the 03/01/2019.
• Distribution: this is the sending of the magazine to stores and warehouses, this
needs to be delivered by 05/01/2019 to ensure the readers get their magazine on
time.
https://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/
Pre-Production Material – Production Process

13. Production Plan Table
Saturday
22/12/2018
Sunday
23/12/2018
Monday
24/12/2018
Tuesday
25/12/2018
Wednesday
26/12/2018
Thursday
27/12/2018
Friday
28/12/2018
The date of
publication will be
decided and will
then allow the
teams to act
accordingly to the
timeframe they
have been given.
Day-off to
brainstorm
Day-off to
brainstorm
The final decision of
content and artists
that will be included
is made.
The teams then
delegate what to do
over the next
fortnight.
The journalists and
photographers work
together to arrange a
photo-shoot and
interview with each
featured artist and
complete this.
Graphic designers
and editors work
together to design
the page layouts.
The marketers start
to find and collect
advertisements for
the pages.
The finance staff will
decide on the final
amount
The writers start to
write the full article
for each artist.
This continues.
The marketers now
will communicate
with the printers and
the distributors to
ensure the magazine
will be distributed by
the publication date
agreed.
Complete:
22/12/2018
Complete:
25/12/2018
Complete:
25/12/2018
Complete:
By 25/12/2018
Complete:
28/12/2018
Complete:
29/12/2018
Complete:
30/12/2018

14. Production Plan Table
Saturday
29/12/2018
Sunday
30/12/2018
Monday
31/12/2018
Tuesday
01/01/2019
Wednesday
02/01/2019
Thursday
03/01/2019
Friday
04/01/2019
Editors proof read
the magazine.
Graphic designers
complete the
magazine and
page layout.
Copy of the
magazine gets
sent to the
printers at the end
of the day.
Day-off Day-off Printed copy should
return, final proof
read.
Returned final copy
to the printers. Then
the printing company
will take over and
print the total
amount of copies.
The printers hand
over the copies to the
magazine, where they
give the copies to the
distributing company.
The distributing
company takes over
and gives the copies
to selected retailers
and, for any
subscribers, to their
house.
Complete:
01/01/2019
Complete:
N/A
Complete:
N/A
Complete:
02/01/2019
Complete:
03/01/2019
Complete:
04/01/2019
Complete:
05/01/2019

15. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools
Step-by-Step Guide: Front Covers
Open Photoshop, use international paper template, must set the background to
white in order to edit it later, cmd = R brings up the rulers, click and drag from the
ruler edge to make guidelines to set up the page and have bleed lines.
Insert the image from my user area, remove the “green screen” background by
clicking on the heading ‘select’ and clicking on colour range, then selecting the
green parts of the image, then clicking OK. This removes the green parts of the
image.
The masthead was created with a font downloaded from dafont.com. This was
placed rotated 90º on the right hand side of the magazine cover. Some of this
covered the main image.
The background was created by inserting a .png image of palm trees over the white
reducing the opacity and creating a gradient over the top from red through orange
to turquoise.

16. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools
Step-by-Step Guide: Front Covers
The cover lines were created through the use of the text tool, here there is the
option to edit the font through the character tab. This can change the height, width
and style. Through holding alt and dragging the text away, I created a duplicate of
that text, this ensured that the text is the same throughout the cover.
To make the puff promotion I used the eclipse tool and held shift as I dragged
outwards this kept the perfect circular shape. I used the fill bucket to make the
circle red. I placed this in the bottom right hand corner to keep similar to the red
gradient at the top. I added the text the same way as the cover lines. The text was
aligned central.
The barcode was added through a .png image of a barcode, I added the date and
issue the same was as the cover lines. The social media logos were .png’s found on
the internet, I used the fill bucket to change the colour of the blue for Facebook
and yellow for Snapchat to make this red, keeping in the similar as the puff
promotion. The Instagram logo was made red through a colour overlay.

17. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools
Step-by-Step Guide: DPS
Open Photoshop, use international paper template, change the width to 420
pixels, must set the background to white in order to edit it later, cmd = R
brings up the rulers, click and drag from the ruler edge to make guidelines to
set up the pages and have bleed lines.
Insert the image from my user area, remove the “green screen” background
by clicking on the heading ‘select’ and clicking on colour range, then
selecting the green parts of the image, then clicking OK. This removes the
green parts of the image.
The background was created with a gradient from pink to red and purple to
blue.
The text was added with the text tool and this was edited to show the
difference in who was speaking, to establish the stand first and the pull
quote, and page numbers.

18. Operating Desktop Publishing Tools
Step-by-Step Guide: Back Covers
Open Photoshop, use international paper template, must set the
background to white in order to edit it later, cmd = R brings up the
rulers, click and drag from the ruler edge to make guidelines to set up
the page and have bleed lines.
The background was created by inserting a .png image of palm trees
over the white reducing the opacity and creating a gradient over the
top from red through orange to turquoise.
I added the quote from Selena Gomez using the text tool, through
holding alt and dragging the text away, I created a duplicate of that
text, this ensured that the text is the same throughout the cover.

19. Font Style
I will get the magazine’s fonts from www.dafont.com because the
website allows fonts to be downloaded and used.
The font I will use is ‘Couture Bold’. This is because it looks similar to
my inspiration magazine and is clear to see what the magazine is called.
This allows for easy reading of the name and masthead.

20. House Style
This will be similar to Billboard, keeping the masthead and cover lines black
and white and including colours in the background to highlight the image
further.
The black and white shows the simplicity and sophistication levels of the
magazine. This is because black and white together connote a sense of pure
strength. This will relate to the power ‘Musique’ will have in the music
magazine industry.
The other colours will be bright to show and highlight the importance of
each feature of the magazine. This could be a colourful image, to show that
this image will be important and relate to the text surrounding it.
There will be the social media icons on the magazine front covers, this will be
to show that the magazine has a social media presence, this will be coloured
to keep in theme with the colour scheme

21. Conclusion
I have created an original print based media product. This magazine is
of a high quality and I have used multiple materials to plan and
produce this magazine. The tools I have used, have been highly
beneficial to producing this magazine and I used them all to the best
that they can be used.