The document outlines a production plan and schedule for creating a music magazine. It involves researching the production process of an inspiration magazine called Kerrang! to understand roles and timeline. The plan includes acquiring content through interviews and photos, laying out pages in Photoshop, adding cover lines and stories, and proofreading before emailing the final file to a printer by February 10th, the planned publication date. Managing the schedule is important to meet deadlines throughout the content acquisition, editing, design, and printing stages of magazine production.

1. Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Template
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
I have planned to
have the date of
publication to be
the 6/03/16.To
start my
magazine I need
to look into the
production
process of
Kerrang!
Magazine In
order to gain
understanding of
how to produce
my music
magazine and I
need to manage
the schedule.
I should choose
when to release
my magazine by
seeing how long
it takes Kerrang!
To release there
magazine and do
research into the
editorial teams in
my magazine of
inspiration in the
magazine so I
know what roles
are needed.
Editorial and
budgetary
decision-I
should research
the budget
needed in order
to produce the
magazine after
the photos and
interviews have
been taken
accounted for.
Moreover, I need
to research the
important people
involved on the
production
process.
I am planning to
look at past
issues of my
magazine of
inspiration,
which is Kerrang!
And see what
sorts of models
are used for
pictures and
what sort of
backgrounds and
locations people
have and which
props people use.
Content
Acquisition- On
Friday, I plan to
look for people
that I know who
fit the genre of
rock shown in
my magazine of
inspiration
Keraang! Which I
know and ask
them whether
they will model
for my magazine
and see if I can
use any props at
the school or if
anyone has any
props I can use
and take the
pictures.

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Sub-editing I
will need to
decide what
content I should
include in my
magazine so I
will have to
decide if I am
doing an
interview or if
my double page
spread will have
other things like
information such
as upcoming gigs
Page Layout-On
the magazine I
need to decide on
this I will
produce some
hand drawn
drafts and add
colour to the
drafts such as my
house style
which was
shown in my
survey and
questionnaire
these drafts will
be of my
contents, double
page spread and
front cover.
After I completed
the hand drawn
drafts I should
start to do my
front cover on
Photoshop and
select my
favourite
pictures that I
have and edit
them on
Photoshop.
Proofreading-
On my front
cover I should
add cover stories
to my magazines
and make sure
the house style is
consistent and
see if there are
any
improvements
that can be made
to ensure high
quality.
I should start
completing my
contents page
using my hand
drawn drafts to
give me a rough
idea at what it
should look like.

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I need to include
cover lines on the
contents page
such as pull
quotes as it
means the reader
will want to carry
on reading other
pages so I need to
add this to the
contents page.
Proofreading-
Now I need to
finish off my
contents page and
go over any of my
improvements to
make sure the
contents is good
quality so it
makes you want
to read each page
of the magazine.
I need to plan out
questions for my
double page
spread interview
or an article of the
person who was
featured on the
front cover. Then I
should ask the
person the
questions/ do
research and start
the page.
Proofreading- I
should put pull
quotes and
images and have a
consistent house
style and make
any
improvements
needed in my
double page
spread
File emailed to
printer/ Pre-
press- Lastly, I
will need to proof
read my work and
check over the
work to check
that all the pages I
have produced
are to the highest
quality possible
and make sure it
correct and
aesthetically
pleasing.
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4. Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Template
Source from: http://www.hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process
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Production Process:
Date of publication –The date of publication is the date that you want the magazine to be released as a finished product to the
general public. When you come up with a date you now have a schedule. A schedule is your plan on how you are going to go about
the production process and when each of the process will occur.
Managing the schedule –this is an important part to be in order for magazine to be produced successfully then you must properly
manage the schedule. Your schedule should be made in such a way that there are provisions for certain mishaps so that even
when these mishaps occur, you can always meet the deadline.
Editorial and budgetary decision –The editorial decisions involve the magazine’s editorial team assembling and deciding what
topics will be covered in the next issue of the magazine. Here, the editorial team basically talks about the various contents that will
make up the magazine. After deciding which types of article ideas or topics, news stories, illustrations and photographs will be used
in the magazine, the team now makes the budgetary decisions. Where they look at the money that is available to them and how it
will be spent towards the production of the magazine.

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Content Acquisition –There are two ways in writing the content. The first is through in-house staff writers and the second way is
through external writers that are commissioned to write on topics that are specialist in nature where artwork and graphics are also
worked on.
At this stage too, a lot of research is made by journalists or reporters into the topics and events being covered. The research can be
done via the use of the internet and news databases. Meetings are also arranged with interviewees.
Sub-editing – Sub editing means quality control. If the media organization is big enough to have a sub-editor, then he is going to
be responsible for this job; if there is no sub-editor, then the editor does this job. The seps in this part are checking of the accuracy
of all facts in the articles, making sure that words are properly spelled, making sure that grammar and punctuation are used
correctly, making sure that all articles follow the house-style, working on the page layout.
Page Layout – in big publications, there is a special team responsible for page layouts called the layout staff. Their job is to typeset
and layout the various pages that come together to make the magazine they use very powerful Desktop Publishing (DTP) programs
such as InDesign or Pagemaker to get the job done.
Proofreading –The editorial department print out a hardcopy of the magazine for the purpose of reading through to find and correct
any mistakes in it. It is easier to proofread a hardcopy than it is to proofread a softcopy. Any mistake that is spotted is quickly
corrected on the DTP file. The editorial team keeps proofreading until every member is satisfied that all mistakes have been
corrected.
File emailed to printer – The DTP file of the entire magazine is sent to the printer whose job will be to print the magazine. It is at
this point the popular term ‘pre-press’ comes in. Pre-press is defined as the process of checking to make sure that you are

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sending all the fonts and images needed for the magazine with your file. Before the printing company prints the hundreds or
thousands of copies requested by the publication, the company first prints a few copies and sends them to the publication’s editor
for checking once again. This is called the printer’s proofs. If the editor and his team are satisfied with the printer’s proofs, then
mass printing happens.
Distribution –The printing company package them neatly and send them to a warehouse. From the warehouse, the magazines are
then distributed and then sold to the public.