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Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Template Week beginning: Monday 7 th December Monday 7 th Tuesday 8 th Wednesday 9 th Thursday 10 th Friday 11 th Saturday 12 th Sunday Date of publicatio n- the first thing to do is to set up a date of publication. The date of publication is the date that you want the magazine to be released. Managing the Schedule- this is vital element when creating a magazine as Editorial and budgetary decision - The editorial decisions involve the magazine’s editorial team deciding what topics will be covered in the next issue of the magazine. They decide which types of article ideas or topics, news stories, illustrations and photographs Content Acquisition - It is at this stage that artwork and graphics are worked on. The artwork is defined as illustrations and pictures that are going to be placed in the magazine. At this stage too, a lot of research is made by journalists or reporters into the topics and Sub-editing 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 It is at this stage that adverts from Proofreadin g The editorial department will read through to find and correct any mistakes in it. 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. Distributio n This is the last stage of the entire process. The printing company, having finished with the printing of the magazines will package them neatly and send them to a warehouse. From the warehouse, the magazines are then distributed and then sold DAY OFF
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Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Template
Week beginning: Monday 7th December
Monday 7th Tuesday 8th Wednesday 9th Thursday 10th Friday 11th Saturday 12th Sunday
Date of publication- the first thing to do is to set up a date of publication. The date of publication is the date that you want the magazine to be released. Managing theSchedule- this is vital element when creating a magazine as it allows you to meet the deadline. This is the reason why a proper management of the schedule is key.
Editorial and budgetary decision -The editorial decisions involve the magazine’s editorial team deciding what topics will be covered in the next issue of the magazine. They decide which types of article ideas or topics, news stories, illustrations and photographs will be used in the magazine. The budgetary decisions are where they look at the money that is available to them and how it will be spent towards the production of the magazine
Content Acquisition- It is at this stage that artwork and graphics are worked on. The artwork is defined as illustrations and pictures that are going to be placed in the magazine. 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 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 LayoutIt is at this stage that adverts from advertisers are placed into the content and how the pages are going to look and be placed s finalised.
ProofreadingThe editorial department will read through to find and correct any mistakes in it. 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 printerAfter the proofreading stage, the DTP file of the entire magazine is sent to the printer whose job will be to print the
DistributionThis is the last stage of the entire process. The printing company, having finished with the printing of the magazines will package them neatly and send them to a warehouse. From the warehouse, the magazines are then distributed and then sold to the public.
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Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Template
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The distributor of my magazine is Frontline
Frontline sells magazines through 55,000 retailers across the UK and Eire. I feel it is a good distributer for my magazine as it is UK based and has a good record in sales.
It would cost around £5,000 to distribute my magazine on a small scale.
Production Process:
Source: http://www.hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process
