This document outlines the planning and production schedule for a fanzine on mental health. It includes ideas for content such as interviews from practitioners over different decades and informational articles. The planning details a pagination outline with illustrations interspersed between content. Organizational documents like interview questions and proofs are also mentioned. A 4-week production schedule is provided, with tasks broken down by week such as conducting interviews, writing content, and designing layouts.

1. Factual:
Idea Development and Planning
Alfie Jones

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.

3. Mood board (or other idea development work):
These images are all inspirational towards my
project as the general colour scheme is what I
want to achieve in my project as the pastel
colours are key conventions of this type of zine,
and I think it goes well with the nature of the
genre and compliments it well. The informal and
hand written vibe of these zines is something I
want portray through my product; some of these
fanzines have more of a professional look to them
but I want to achieve a more homemade look as I
think it will cater for younger people more.

4. Content:
My fanzine will consist of:
o 3 interviews with 3 different people who have been
working in mental health for a combined 50+ years with
one being interviewed on mental health in the 90s/00s,
one being interviewed about the 2010s and the other
being interviewed about the current day. Each interview
will be across a double page with them either having
information on one side and then the interview on the
other, or depending on the size and quality of the
interview I might do it across both pages.
o Illustrations will be across double pages and will be
filtered in between the interviews and information pages
to break up the writing.
o Pages with information about mental health and help
lines will be at the start and end of the zine to help
educate people on the topic and how/where to get help.

5. Planning: Pagination
o Front cover – masthead ‘Our Minds’ at the top middle with an illustration under it which fills the majority of the front page, and with
the author name under it. The background with be a pastel blue or purple. The illustration will have a message in the actual
illustration or under it.
o Pg.1 & 2 – Contents page with page numbers and brief information about the pages and it will look handwritten and informal so it is
an informative but not sophisticated.
o Pg.3 & 4 – Article on mental health about the basic understanding of it, how to cope with it, help lines, expert help etc.
o Pg. 5 & 6 – Information on how mental health in the 90s/00s was portrayed by the public and the media.
o Pg. 7 & 8 – Interview with mental health practitioner of 37 years Joanne Ward, it will be more informal than a regular interview for a
magazine, but still formal enough to understand the severity of the topic. The interview will be about mental health in the 90s/00s
and how her experience was working through it in the early part of her career.
o Pg. 9 & 10– Illustration with a message about mental health on both pages to break up the information of each decade.
o Pg. 11 & 12 – Information on how mental health in the 2010s was portrayed by the public and the media, and how it has developed
over the years.
o Pg.13 & 14 – Interview with a former managing director of a mental health service for 10+ years Dale Ward. The interview will be
about his experience working in mental health, why he wanted too and about the media affecting mental health.
o Pg. 15 & 16 – Information on how mental health in the current day is portrayed by the public and the media, and how it will develop
as the years go on.
o Pg. 17 & 18 – Interview with mental health worker of 5+ years Jake Mawer. The interview will be about his experience working
currently in the mental health industry, how he thinks it will develop in the future and how he would go about improving it.
o Pg. 19 – Help line page on the inside of the back cover to support people wanting help to deal with their own mental health or try
and get support for someone else.
o Back cover – a wrap around of the front cover so both the front and back cover link up together.

6. Planning: Organisational Documents
Jake Mawer Interview Message Proof Dale Ward Interview Message Proof
Joanne Ward Interview Message Proof

7. Production Schedule:
Week commencing 11/10/21
o Monday 11th – Write interview questions for both interviews with Joanne and Dale Ward
o Tuesday 14th – Conduct interview with Joanne Ward
o Wednesday 15th – Write up interview with Joanne Ward and start article writing for page 5
o Thursday 16th – Create layouts for interviews and continue article writing
o Friday 17th – Continue creating layouts for interviews and article writing
Week commencing 18/10/21
o Monday 18th – Conduct interview with Dale Ward
o Tuesday 19th – Write interview questions for interview with Jake Mawer
o Wednesday 20th – Write up interview with Dale Ward and start article writing for page 9
o Thursday 21st – Continue article writing
o Friday 22nd – Finish page 9 article and start article for page 3 + 4
Week commencing 25/10/21
o Monday 25th – Conduct interview with Jake Mawer
o Tuesday 26th – Write up interview with Jake Mawer
o Wednesday 27th – Finish article writing for page 3 + 4 and design + finish illustration page
o Thursday 28th – Start article writing for page 11
o Friday 29th – Finish article writing for page 11
Week commencing 01/11/21
o Monday 1st – Rough design for contents page
o Tuesday 2nd – Rough design for front and back cover
o Wednesday 3rd – Start and finish front & back cover
o Thursday 4th – NOT IN COLLEGE
o Friday 5th – Start and finish contents page