Jude Turner is proposing a project to create a magazine highlighting queer creators and their art. The magazine will include interviews, writing pieces, and multimedia elements like photographs and QR codes. Jude intends to make the magazine interactive through various design elements. Over 17 weeks, Jude will conduct research on the local queer community and similar publications, interview artists, collect and edit photographs, layout the magazine in InDesign, and gather peer and self evaluations. The goal is to produce a magazine that celebrates queer expression and highlights the diversity of people in the local area.

1. Proposal
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Centre Name and Number:
York College 48357
Student Name and Unique Learner Number:
Jude Turner 6437638612
Project proposal title and date:
Queer Forts 02/03/22
Main area of activity:
Photography, design, art
Rationale:
Throughout past 2 years I have learnt how to use premier to make a video more exiting than just cutting together video. I
have also learnt how to do interviews for print and video so I can make it the most entertaining and how to get answers
that say the questions in them to make it seem like a continuous speech. I also have knowledge of how to use
photoshop to edit photos in a range of different ways. I have some knowledge in graphic design in using photoshop and
InDesign so I think I would have a fair amount of knowledge top make my fmp really good.
Project Concept: I will be making a magazine that shows of queer creators and their art and how they choose to
express themselves. I will try and make it multimedia by making edits and using qr codes to be put on the pages. I will
have a mixture of me writing interviews and writing pieces but also have other people contribute to it like more
established magazines. I would like for it to be part handwritten and also part computer text to make it feel more
personal. I would like to make the zine as interactive as possible and not just paper based this could be like the outside
cover being fabric or 3d collages like plant collection. The research I need to get would be finding queer people who are
in certain scenes outside of people that I already know, also looking for similar magazines, zines, blogs, videos that I
could get inspiration from for my FMP. I think that doing audience research on what people in my age group like watch,
read, listen to and the different genres of them to see if I can find queer people in that area of focus, also finding out
different layouts that I could do so it doesn’t look similar to any other magazines
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed:
Using a production diary that goes in depth each week to see how I have progressed from the start of the project to the
end of the project. Final self evaluation to see how the actual final project turns out as a whole- not the progress. The
improvement of my skills that I have at the moment to see if they’ve gotten better than my last zine that I made. I would
also do peer evaluation both from people who are professional at print, queer people and people who aren’t in either to
get a true evaluation.

2. Proposal
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Bibliography:
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2. Elijah smith (2022) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on 22/2/22)
3. i-D (2019). The Get Up Stand Up Issue #358. Britain: Vice Media. Meet the queer skate kids of San Francisco.
4. Jude turner. (2022) Target Audience Research Survey (conducted on 19/02/22)
5. Michael Savage (2017). In Formalities: self-published
6. Mitchell Bradshaw (2019). KIDS. London: Self-published.
7. Mitchell Bradshaw (2021) Southside Circular. Edition 1. Self published
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10. Slam Jam (2020).Slam Jam & BrainDeadpresent QueerSkateMilano.3 March.Availableat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvyLGYH9xI (Accessed:18February2022).
Week Tasks to be Completed: Specific Tasks
1 Pre-production  Proposal and background research
o Look at similar products (videos, books, films,
documentaries, magazines, fanzines, theory) in
the genres that I’m doing- skateboarding, queer
identity, music, art, photography
2 Pre-production  Research- primary interviewing artists
o Interview the people I know who make art on what
they like in media, and about their art to help with
gathering interviews for the zine but also for what
they’d like to see in a zine
3 Pre-production  Research- secondary look at local scene
o Look at musicians in my local area and what
music is popular
o The type of people who skate
o The queer population of my local area
4 Pre-production  Experiments digital artwork and design
o Try photoshop out at making artwork
o Make cover ideas and layout designs that don’t
just look like text on pain background
o Write up about what I liked best about this
5 Pre-production  Experiments physical artwork and interviews
o Look at collaging and experimental ways for layout
and design
o Try interviews out with queer people, skaters,
artist and musicians see how it differs in questions
and answers
6 Pre-production  Figure out pages
o Find out what content I will be needing to get and
how much information I need to fill up those pages
7 Pre-production  Solid interview questions for all subjects
o Using my experiments on interviews I will have a
solid set off questions for everyone and so it will
be easier to form these
8 Production  Interview people
o I will collect information first because then it will be
easier to see if I need to get rid of pages
depending on how much content I collect in the

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interviews
9 Production  Collect photos
o I will collect photos to accompany the people in
the zine to show off the diversity of people in it
o This will also help with the aesthetic appeal of the
fanzine so its not just pages of text
10 Production  Photo edit
o I will edit any photos so they will look the best they
can for the zine
11 Production  Write up interviews
o I will have collected all the interviews and so I wil
write it up so they will be ready to put on to
indesign
12 Production  Indesign layout
o I will have everything written up and printed on
ready for development and creative design
13 Production  Develop InDesign layout
o Using my experiments, I will have a good layout
sorted for the zine
14 Evaluation  Peer evaluation form
o I will write up a peer evaluation form on google for
people who have read the zine
o I will get perspectives from different categories like
queer people, media experts, etc
15 Evaluation  Self-Evaluation PowerPoint
o I will self-evaluate looking at my weaknesses and
strengths throughout the process
16 Evaluation  Presentation on Instagram
o I will remake the page layout so it is suitable for
Instagram and will fit to size
17 Moderation  Moderating
18 Show Preparation  Preparing
o I will print out the zine and make lots of copies
19 Show  Showing
o Give people the previous made printouts for
people to read