Unit 13 – Planning and Pitching a Print based Media Product

Checklist! ✓

Task Don

e ✓1 Have I chosen my print based media product from my chosen music

magazine sub-genre?2 Have I reflected on it’s Purpose?3 Have I reflected on the products Form & Style?4 Have I reflected on the products Content?5 Do I understand the meanings represented in the Product?6 Do I understand the Genre of the Product?7 Do I understand the Target Audience of the Product?8 Do I understand how Frequently the Product is sold?9 Do I know the processes involved in the Production of the Product?

Tasks recommended: - Present ALL of this in a PowerPoint (Embed into your Page using Slideshare under the Headings provided) OR Prezi

1 Research the Publisher of the Product and the Product as a whole2 What are the connotations behind the magazines strapline? What do they aim to

cover and/or provide their readers with?3 Annotate the codes & conventions of this media product and the 2-pages you are

going to Produce (Front Cover and DPS) – for example for the Front Cover - where is the masthead, strapline, cover lines, puff-promotion etc.

4 Connotations of the colours, language in certain conventions (Stapline, Masthead)5 (See Task 4) – What iconography (Props) are presented on the pages to be

produced within your chosen sub-genre and do these ‘signify’ (De Saussure) to the readership? YOU SHOULD investigate other areas not covered for 4 as well.

6 What is the Genre and what does is stereotypically provide it’s readers with? YOU COULD research other products from the genre to see if they have ‘repeated’ (Steve Neale – 1980) certain codes & conventions OR Iconography

7 Publisher (See Task 1) – Target Age/Gender/Socio-Economic Class - Demographics8 Publisher (See Task 1) – How often is the Product released for it’s intended

readership?9 Pre-Production = Investigate!

Production = Investigate!

Post-Production = Investigate!

Task Don

e ✓1 Have I produced a mood board that conveys my ideas for the Product I

wish to produce based on my research for LO 1?2 Have I provided a summary of the ideas I have for my magazine and the 2-

pages I will be producing?3 Have I produced some “mind-maps” of key convention ideas such as

Masthead, Strapline, Main Image etc. for the 2-pages I wish to produce?

Task Don

e ✓1 Have I produced a Proposal? – For example what IS the masthead (title)

going to be, what font style will I present this in, what is the “house style” of the magazine going to be on a consistent basis, how often will the magazine be sold and what ambitions do you have for the magazine (e.g is it going to be a market leader OR is it going to battle to compete with other products from the genre?)

2 Have I reelected on the needs of the target audience I have mind within my Proposal? Who are my target audience? YOU COULD produce an Audience Profile outlining who they are what they would stereotypically look like!

3 Have I produced a Plan for the photographs that need to be captured for the 2-pages to be produced?

4 Sample Materials – Further draft interviews, front cover drafts etc.

Task Don

e ✓1 Have I presented the Proposal? – For example to a “Client” (Your Publisher

of Research from Unit 01) and/or a Focus Group of readers who COULD be interested in your magazine.

2 Does the Proposal contain a verbal introduction? Can you evidence this (Script)

3 Does the Proposal consider the environment and/or equipment needed to present it effectively (e.g. Internet access, PowerPoint file)?

4 Does the Proposal contain evidence of Feedback? (e.g. Survey Monkey results?

5 Does your Proposal contain Images (Mood Board, Mock-Up Drafts, Logo for the masthead) and other illustrations?

6 Have I got a witness statement from the “Client” for conducting the Pitch and/or Proposal?

Task Don

e ✓1 Do you have Evidence to suggest the Client is happy with Proposal?2 Does the Proposal consider the materials needed to present the proposal?3 Does the Proposal consider the materials needed to create the magazine

(media product) pages?4 Does the Proposal highlight the location(s) to be used for taking

photographs for the 1st Issue?5 Does your Proposal contain Images (Mood Board, Mock-Up Drafts, Logo for

the masthead) and other illustrations?6 Does your Proposal consider WHO will be involved in the magazine – Key

Personnel – e.g. Who will be the Editor? Photographer?7 Are the Legal/Ethical Issues surrounding the Production of the Magazine

presented in the Proposal?8 Post-Proposal – Have you provided a detailed reflection on any changes you

have made OR are going to make based on the feedback you have been given? (E.g. Images, fonts, colours, layouts etc.)