Lauren Morgan reflects on the effectiveness of her planning process for creating a magazine. She found that planning helped her make decisions on how to structure and design the magazine, and taught her that magazines require a lot of work and planning to make the production stage easier. She also learned that gaining audience feedback is helpful to improve designs and make choices on content. Creating a Gantt chart kept her planning organized and helped manage her time. Obtaining feedback on font and layout options from her target audience gave her insight into their preferences for the magazine's masthead design.

1. Reflection on Planning Process
Lauren Morgan

2. How effective was your planning?
Overall I have found the planning process very effective in helping me make
decisions and choices on how to structure and create my magazine.
What has it taught you about the planning of a magazine?
This planning process has taught me that there is a lot of work required for
making a magazine and that planning things will make the production stage a
lot easier and more organised.
What have you learnt from the process? How has it aided your project?
I have learnt that gaining audience feedback is a great way to find out other
people’s opinions on your designs and to know what’s good and what you
could change to improve it. Using audience feedback in my planning process
really helped me decide which FC, CP and DPS to choose and what
improvements I can make on them. I also found the gantt chart very useful as
it helped me manage my time wisely and kept my planning stage organised. I
found that choosing a variety of fonts and laying them out on a page for my
audience to comment on and vote for which one they preferred was helpful
because it gave me a better idea as to what my target audience would expect
to see and what they would most like to see as the masthead for a pop
magazine.