Production ProcessData and Time scale – the managers from all the departments will come together to create a pre-production plan. They will then plan this on a timescale where deadlines will be set and everything will be organised around when they have to be completed. When the content starts to be produced the pre-production has finished and the production begins. I may make a time line on excel to plan and make it clearer what its going to happen. The staff will be paid in total £82,000 annually. The office rent will have to be paid at the start of the month which will be £37.25 per month. The marketing budget will be £5,000 for the month and the website will be a no off cost of £6,000. All the budgets will be discussed at the very beginning as it is a based upon last issues sales.

There will then be a content plan for all the pages. This helps to decide where they will decide what topics the magazine will cover and everything which the new issue is going to include. The people involved in this will be all the members of the editorial board to make sure the plan is correct.

A detailed plan is then made for each story which will feature in the magazine. The type of story will be decided and if it will be in the from of an interview, news story, features etc. One of these will be decided which will put across the story to the best to the audience. A mock up design is also created so a graphic designer will be used to create this which will probably need a computer as there equipment. A detailed description will be given to the editor by the author on what they are going to write about. At this time when the authors are writing and gathering information for there story a budget from the pre-production plan will be allocated to each journalist for them to spend on, travel, photos, interviews etc. They may also need to be provided with a photographer to take photos and a computer to write there story.

The next stage after all the stories and articles have been written and the photographs have been taken it will be added to the magazine pages by a graphic designer. They will need to use designing software such as; Photoshop which will be used manipulate the photos, Adobe InDesign will design the page layout and if the magazine will be put onto a website they may need to use Adobe Dreamweaver to design the whole website. A mac will be the best computer to use as they have very good software for editing. All this software will cost around £57.16 per month. Which for my magazine would be per issue. After the magazine had been bought together into a complete copy the editors will look through it to make sure that’s what they want and the magazine will be proof read to make sure that there are no spelling or grammar problems. Then the magazine will start to be mass produced ready for release. To make 15,000 copies as my magazine is doing it’ll cost £8,529.43. For distributing the magazine online will only cost £720.

The launch data will be on the Monday of the 4th week of every month this makes it easier to plan each issue as they will have a similar plan layout to the previous months and issues.