finished pre production

1. Pre-Production
Alicja Morawska

2. Reflection - What is the project?
I’m planning on creating a collection of print production pieces that will come together to create a magazine. I’ve planned what
kind of content I want to include in the project; a front cover, a contents page, at least four double page spreads a festival
promotion page and a CD cover that comes with the magazine.
The project is going to involve a lot of photography, both in studio and on location, working with different models and
experimenting with lighting. The models that have agreed to help me were picked for their aesthetics as they express the style
and tone that comes with the genre of magazine and would be expected by the target audience.
The majority of the projects workload is going to be editing and putting together the images and text into something I think will
suite the expectations of the audience, meaning that in order to move forward with working on pages I need to find time to
gather photography so that I can base the supporting work around it.
There’s a few different article topics that I want to work with. I’m planning a page that talks about poor mental health as this is
something that is seen a lot in this music genres listeners as well as its artists.
Another is discussing the meaning behind an artists tattoos; what the story is behind them, why did they choose to get them done
there, style and colour. Tattoos are something that have revolved around rock music for years and I want to humanize the topic as
it’s still seen as a connection to the devil and self-mutilation.
I also want do an article about an artists personal interest in video games and comics, as it’s something that I found in my
research to be a popular interest of the target audience.
Something I'm hoping to find a chance to work with is using photography from a live performance for an article. As of now I am
unsure if this will be achievable as I don't know what events I will be able to attend and if obtaining good quality images will be
possible.

3. Style Sheet- House Style and Colour Scheme
House Style – Something that I feel needs to be addressed before I get into the details of the style sheet is that during my
research I found that a lot of similar existing products will keep a general house style going throughout it’s pages, however
within that there will be alterations made to things such as layout and colour scheme depending on the tone and content of
the page. The best examples I can give of this is that whilst conducting my research I was able to identify which magazine a
page came from due to it’s house style despite it having a different tone and design to the image next to it. For my project I
plan to have a general house style linking my pages, however I want to adapt it so that it incorporates the topic and content
of the article.
Colour Scheme – there’s a colour scheme that I
found to be very popular in this style of magazine
that I’m going to use where I can, most likely
primarily the front cover. As I’ve stated in the text
above, the scheme is likely to alter between pages
however the use of black and white is something
that’s going to be continuous, as the two colours
can easily create a contrast against whatever other
colours have been added to the page. another
aspects that draws me to the repeated use of the
colours across the pages is that they can be very
useful for text, as they can make the articles legible
no matter what the background colour is.
Aside from knowing that this range of colours is going to appeal to the target audience, the reason I chose it is because of
the good representation it gives to the topic of the magazine. Rock music has always been seen as a very chaotic and power
hungry genre and I feel like the fiery colours with black and white accents is the perfect thing to express that. A lot of the
existing products used red as an emphasis to the powerful poses that the models held in the main images. Red, Black and
White is a very simple and widely used colour scheme and I feel that there is only so much that can be done with three
colours before it becomes messy and repetitive, so the additional shades of yellows and oranges can help provide helpful
accent colours for the page. I’m going to display the colour schemes that are individual to certain pages on the slides that are
showing their design and layout.

4. Style Sheet - Fonts
For the masthead I was looking at fonts that are much
thicker, as I know from looking at similar existing
products, that the masthead usually takes up the
majority of horizontal space where it’s placed, so I’ve
chosen these as potential ideas as they eliminate the
most empty space, due to them being quite thick.
When looking for these fonts, all of them have come
from under the “eroded” style, as I feel that it fits the
aesthetic of the product and isn’t as plain as it would be
without the different type of erosion each font has.
I’m thinking about using the Impacted 2.0 as I think it will fill the space nicely because each letter is exactly the same height, and it can be
altered to be thicker and taller in Photoshop. However I know that this might change depending on what the final background image for the
cover will look like and how the eroded gaps will interact with the colour that is placed the masthead. Something that is going to be
determined throughout production is the fonts for each pages article title, as existing products and my product address different topics in
each issue and I want to make sure that each piece of work has everything contributing to the tone of the article, meaning that I will have to
find fonts for each page, rather than sticking to the same one. This means that I will have to focus on creating a house style in other ways.
This is the font I want to use for the body text of the magazine, as it’s more
simplistic in that it eliminates some of the unnecessary curves in letters making
it straighter and more modern whilst still being a rather basic font that is still
easy to read. In the screenshot I wanted to see what it would like in different
colours on the background colours I think that might appear in the project.
Another reason for picking this font is that it came with several different styles
which will be helpful during production as it means I have access to thicker and
thinner versions of the font without having to work on changing it myself. The
top line is done in the regularversion, which will be the what makes up the
majority of the body text. Below are ultra thin, book and bold, which I can use to
emphasis parts of text that I feel will be more important to the reader or in the
case of ultra thin I can use to annotate images.

5. Article Copy
I want to one of the pages to address mental health and how it can affect anyone no matter what you’re age is and your lifestyle.
I’ve chosen to do this in an interview with an artist who is on tour and keeps hearing about the problems that their young fans go
through. Word count 547.
So clearly it’s been a busy time for you recently and we’ve been keeping our readers updated the whole tour, how have you been
finding it?
It’s been amazing getting to see all our fans and hearing how we’ve influenced them, getting to play massive stages that seemed
like a dream only a few years ago, I’ve been taking advantage of being a tourist wherever we stop as well. But people really only
talk about the positives in these interviews, the lights and the fame but it’s not always like that, the show itself is the climax of the
tour but there’s so much that goes on around it and it’s not always pretty.
I can imagine, you were the one to reach out to us about doing an interview to address this, can we know why?
Absolutely, I wanted to talk about this on a more public platform than social media because this is something that needs to s aid
and listened to. When on tour, you are constantly meeting fans and it’s been weighing down on me how often I’ve heard someone
say “Your music saved my life”, but the fans that tell me this are always so young and it breaks my heart seeing young teens
struggling so much. I remember when I was the same age and was having these thoughts and it’s such a lonely place to find
yourself because it’s not until later that you realise that you aren’t the only one. It sounds pretentious but there’s no point hiding
that a lot of readers look up to the bands you write about, and I want to make sure at least one of us talking about their own
problems so they know it happens to us as well.
I completely agree with you, it’s definitely something that needs to be talked about. Could you tell us about your experience?
It’s different for all the members that take part in making a tour happen but for me it’s mostly the pressure to do well. There’s
months of planning that go in to it, expectations from fans who travel across the country to see you for two hours. We all have to
leave our families for months at a time but if time comes and I don’t feel up to it or mess up then what was it all for, you know
what I mean? It’s a lot of overthinking about the consequences of what will happen if you make a mistake so much so that you
start to lose focus on what to do to avoid it.
What is some advice you’d give to fans who feel the same way in their day to day life?
Breathe. Breathe and try your best to clear your head in whatever way works best for you, and don’t feel bad for taking time for
yourself is the most important thing I think. You can’t be the best you if you can’t find yourself in the midst of all the stress.
Remember that you’ve made it through everything you’ve faced before and put your best foot forward, because you can’t move
past it if you don’t move at all. And I know that everyone will have heard this a million time but it really does get better.

6. Article Copy
One of the articles is going to be about an artists tattoos and why they got them. Word count 535.
For this month’s edition of Ink Review, we brought in Elizabeth Wilson, lead and creator of one of this year’s biggest bands,
Centurions! As always forour new readers, Ink Review is a monthly installation in Royalties where we ask an artist about the style
and meaning of their tattoos to get to know a little bit more about them. In this issue, we have Elizabeth Wilson here to walk us
through her ink choices.
Elizabeth, I can see that all of your tattoos are done in black work is there any reason for that?
I’ve wanted tattoos since I was like twelve/thirteen and the ones that always interested me the most were just simple pieces of
artwork, I was never the biggest fan of like the big colourful murals that people would put across their entire bodies, not that I
don’t like them but it was always a thought process of what would I like to be on my body. I think the thing that I like the most
about having all black tattoos is that they look good with whatever I have on, they don’t clash with any outfits and I just think
they look classy.
Completely understandable when you’ve been under such an intense spotlight over the past few months. Could you tell us about
why you got them? Are they linked to any experiences in your life?
My family used to have quite strong views against tattoos, or at the very least about me having them so I wanted to make sure
that if I was getting work done that it meant something with the hope that they would accept it more. So, the poppy down the
middle of my chest was my first tattoo and it’s a link towards my mother, as I come from a Polish background and the poppy is a
big representation of that. The only tattoo that doesn’t have much of a story is actually the leaves around my shoulders, which is
my latest.
What about placement? Is there anything that lead you to choosing where you decided to get them?

7. When I started getting my tattoos I wasn’t an artist, I was working at a small retail shop in the city centre and I wanted to make sure that if I
needed to, I could easily put them all away. So, having them on my upper arms, shoulders and chest meant that if I had to go to a more
professional setting all it took was a blouse and a blazer. Now that I’m in more of an open profession I might think of more visible
placements for my next work.
There’s still two tattoos you haven’t mentioned, can you tell us about, what is that a buffalo?
It’s actually a Polish bison, which is a massive forest cow that lives in the mountains, it’s such a ridiculous and amazing animal. There is a
beer named after them in Poland called Żubr and I got it done for my grandad who really enjoyed, as weird as it sounds. It’s just a way of
remembering where you’re from.
And what about the other one?
Just a bison skeleton because I thought it looked cool.

8. Article Copy
Double page spread about an artists personal interest in comic books. Word count 748.
In this week’s issue of Royalties Personal Interview, we have one of Britain’s fastest growing artists, Gatsby, talk about his favorite
pastime: Comics. For those of you who have picked up our magazine for the first time or maybe you’ve just never stopped
on this page, Personal is a weekly interview that we like to host with different artists, as we believe that it is important for an
artist to make sure that their audience has more ways to connect with them, and the best way to do this we feel is by
allowing them to have a platform where they can openly talk about well, whatever they want!
So, Gatsby, when we approached you with this interview you didn’t have to think twice about what you wanted to talk about, so
this must have been on your mind for a while.
Yeah man, to some people it might seem odd but it’s something I really wanted to share with fans because I know what kind of
people listen to my music and I feel like they would really enjoy it, but I know that’s not everyone so even though I have
thought about spreading it on social media, I know it’s not everyone’s sort of thing. My career has kind of skyrocketed really
suddenly and I never expected it to go like this but I want to make sure that I still stay human, y’know? I don’t want the
people that listen to my music to only see me as an album cover on their phone, I want to keep some of that same feeling
from playing local gigs and having everyone know me.
That’s really great because a lot of that mentality is being lost in mainstream music. So, tell us all about how comics affect your
life.
Oh, wow, it’s just always been one of those things that if someone asked a friend to describe me, comic book nerd was in the top
5. Growing up with the marvel movies was incredible and it made me want to expand on what I was seeing on screen, so I
started going to the local comic book store in my city at least like three times a week.
Really? surely there can’t be that much new comics to read in one week.

9. No there isn’t but it was the fact that I was making friends with the employees and other people my age, which for a kid who was super
socially awkward, it was a really good place for me to start opening up. So, I’d go there and every Wednesday there would be an order ready
for me of all the comics I wanted to keep up to date on, and other days I’d just go in to play a game with some of the workers when the shop
was quiet or just read up on old issues.
That is some dedication, what were some of your favorites then?
I’ve been making this sound like I’m some kind of expert in all of this but frankly my favorites are the really well known ones, I’d get every
new issue of Spiderman, batman, I kept up to date on ironman religiously. But aside from them I did venture into some more obscure stuff
that I can promise you no one reading this will have ever heard of, I started learning German at one point because there was one series that I
wanted to get into but they didn’t have a translated version.
Can you speak any German now?
Uhh I’d like to say I stuck to it over the years but I really haven’t, luckily they’ve made an English version now so I can avoid the angry
Duolingo owl on my phone, but it has left me with a taste for German music.
Is that something you’d like to expand into one day?
I have honestly thought about it before but I know that right now it isn’t something I can focus on, there’s so much going on already, there
wouldn’t be enough hours in the day. But maybe later down the line I could brush up on it and find someone to collaborate with, it’s just
finding someone who would be willing to take on a very broken speaker for such a big project.
I’ll keep an eye out for it. Well thank you so much for coming in and sharing your personal life with us, we’ll be seeing you again shortly for a
gig review.

10. Flat Plan – FestivalPoster
FestivalName and
location
Date for each line up
Biggest Stage Name
MiddleStage Name
Small Stage Name
Most popular
artists attending
Smaller artists/acoustic
sets
Middletier artists
Social media links
Drawn frame design

11. Flat Plan – Tattoo Double Page Spread
Artists tattoo story
and meaning.
What meaning the
tattoo has and why
they decided to get it.
Decision for
placement and style.
ARTICLE TITLE
Small introduction interview with the
artist about the page, why the magazine
wanted to learn more about their tattoos
and their meanings, links to their musical
career and what their doing next, but
primarily a more casual and personal
interview with a popular artist.
Tattoo was done during or after a
tour that was significant to them,
interviewer asks if they think they
will get more work done during the
tour that’s happening soon, linking to
their music career
This is their most
well known tattoo
that fans know the
most – explain the
story behind it
The placement during production will depend on how I will personally position the model so that their work is visible but this is
gives a general idea of how the page will look.

12. Flat plan – front cover
MASTHEAD
FREE POSTERS BARCODE
TEARAWAY
FEATURED ARTICLE
FEATURED ARTICLE
FEATURED ARTICLE
MAGAZINE TITLE

13. Flat plan- comics double page spread
PULL QUOTE
SPACE FOR
THE MODEL
AGAINST THE
BACKGROUND
ARTICLE TITLE
intro
Question 1

14. Flat Plan – Effects Double Page Spread
Article title
Space for the
interview – how
working in this
industry takes a
toll on mental
health and how
the artist found
ways of coping,
giving advice to
the readers who
might be going
through similar
things.
Fade the image to give
more space for writing.
Introduction to the article, why it’s being
featured, why the artist decided to talk about it.
About550
wordsacross
bothboxes

15. Resources
Equipment/ Props/
Costume needed
Locations needed
Instruments - Bass Anywhere with a neon sign
DSLR camera Forest with train tracks
Phone with high qualitycamera Comic book/Videogame store
Leather Jacket College PhotographyStudio
Live performance – local gig/festival

16. Contingency Planning
Potential Issue Solution
ModelsFailingtoShow Try and findpeople whowill eitherbe available atthe same time asa
back up.Anothersolutionistoplantohave multiple modelsshowup
at the same time, sothat if one failstoattendtime isnotwastedand
productioncanmove forwardthe nextday.
Illness/ failure toattendcollege Focuson doingwhateverworkispossibleathome,writingarticlesor
planningotheraspectsof the project.If possiblegainaccesstoAdobe
Photoshoptobe able tocontinue toeditandworkon pagesat home.
Lack of internet access If I cannot gainaccessto the internetIwill prioritisethe workthatcan
be done,like PowerPointsandwrittenworkthatcan thenbe scanned
in.
PoorTime Management In the eventof findingmyself behindschedule,Iwanttomake sure
that It’spossibleforme totake advantage of the extraperiodsIcan
come into college forwhere Ican accessall the work,as well as
takingtime toworkat home.
ComputerError The device Iwork oncan crash and there isnothingthatcan be done
to avoidit, howeverIcantry and control how much I'mat riskof
losingbymakingsure thatI save myprogressfrequently.
Memory StickFailure orLose Makingsure that my workissavedinmore thanone place at all times
isthe onlyway toavoidlosingall of myprogressshouldsomething
happentothe memorystick.
LocationPhotoshootIssues To try and avoidanypotential problemswithonlocation
photography,I’mgoingtoplanoutanythingthatcan gowrong with
eachindividualplace, andcheckweatherforecastsaheadof time to
make sure that the weatherandnatural lightingfitstowhatIneed.

17. Health and Safety - Classroom
Potential Issue How will the issue be
avoided?
Back pain Sitting at a desk for too long can cause back pain so it’s
important to have regular breaks and do stretches.
Anxiety Over-thinking and too much stress can have a negative effect
on health. Taking a break from work and relaxing, within
reason, is a good thing.
Fatigue Make sure to continue drinking water and getting enough food
throughout the day and planning an early night before the next
morning can help avoid fatigue.
Eye Strain Taking breaks every 90 minutes at a maximum to ensure that
your not spending too much time in front of the screen and
your eyes are getting a break, as it can cause more serious
issues over time.
Headaches Having a break to take time to have a drink and take pain killers
if necessary, as trying to work through a headache can only
make it worse.
Hand Pain Working at a computer for a long time without a break can lead
to hand cramps. Keeping your hands limber and maybe slowing
down the speed at which you’re typing can help avoid this.

18. Health and Safety - Location
Potential Issue How will the issue be
avoided?
Traffic I know that some of the locations I’ve been thinking about
potentially using are going to be near areas of highly congested
traffic or rail lines. Trying to find times where these areas are
much quieter and making sure to pay constant attention to the
surroundings are going to help avoid any problems.
Weather Currently the weather is very unpredictable, so checking
forecasts before any shoots is important to plan ahead in the
event of heavy rain, strong wind or heat waves as these could
cause colds, injuries and heat stroke.
Risky Photography Directions I do not want to put any of my models in a pose that could lead
to them being injured because of the environment not being
suitable for the directions.
Higher chance of damaging equipment on location Make sure that the camera strap is secure either around the
neck or arm, eliminating the risk of dropping it.
Live Performance Photography – audience could cause harm to
myself or equipment
Making sure that if I am to get good quality images I know that I
am within a safe distance from the more intense part of the
crowd to try and avoid injury.

19. Production Schedule
Day Tasks
Day 1 Begin work on CD cover, as the images I'm
planning to use I can gather at home.
Write article for mental health DPS.
Day 2 Finish work on CD cover, bring models in
for photoshoot in the studio.
Day 3 Start work on the double page spread from the
photoshoot, write up diary entry about
progress so far.
Day 4 – end of week 1 Complete 1st double page spread, complete
week 1 diary, planned tattoo photoshoot for
another DPS after college hours
Day 5 Start tattoo double page spread, write the
article copy for it as well.
Day 6 Continue progess with tattoo spread, aim to
finish it, if so look at ideas for festival poster.

20. Production Schedule
Day Tasks
Day 7 Finish the rest of the tattoo spread if
necessary and move onto festival poster.
Day 8 – end of week 2 Complete diary entries for the week, aim to
finish the festival poster. Comic photoshoot
planned after college hours.
Day 9 Take time to make sure things are on schedule,
finishing any missing parts. Write article copy
for comic photoshoot.
Day 10 Aim to complete the comic book spread in one
day. Front cover photoshoot planned but may
change.
Day 11 If image is available for front cover, begin work.
If not, complete comic if not already done.
Plan out more pages if possible.
Day 12 – end of week 3 Complete diary entries for the week, finish
work on front cover. If I can do a live
performance spread I will get the images over
this weekend.

21. Production Schedule
Day Tasks
Day 13 Hopefully begin work on live performace
spread, see if there are enough high quality
images to include another.
Day 14 Finish work on undetermined amount of live
performance spreads.
Day 15 Use images from shotoshoots to create a
contents page
Day 16 - end of week 4 Complete the production diary, make sure
everything has been completed.