This document provides guidance for students completing an assignment to design magazine covers and a double page spread for a lifestyle magazine, as well as write an evaluative commentary. It outlines pre-production tasks like researching cover designs and terminology. It also gives instructions for the production components, which include designing two magazine covers, a contents page, and double page spread. Students are advised to follow conventions found in their research and be creative with images, text, fonts, and mode of address.

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(or how to succeed in MS2 ‘Production Processes’)

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Brief
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Pre-production
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X2 Lifestyle magazine covers (both for ONE magazine)
Production
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Contents page
Double page spread
1800 word evaluative commentary

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Research
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Evidence of research through cover/article analysis.
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Use of terminology.
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This does not have to be an essay! Bullet points are fine here
but this will go into your essay after the production, so the more
you do now the easier your essay will be to write.
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Use the writing mat on the blog as a guide.

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The covers
Get the format right!

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The double page
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The image/text ratio is up to you
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Make sure that you follow the conventions set out by your
research
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Use original photography
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Use fonts creatively
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Consider mode of address