InDesign Tutorial

Getting started!

This tutorial will take you through the basics of InDesign looking at the following:

- Setting up your document

- Adding text

- Resizing text, font style and position

- Creating a pull quote

Advanced skills 

These tutorials will take you through more advanced techniques such as:

- Text wrapping

- Using layers

- Adding objects such as shapes

- Resizing images 

- Different view modes and effects 

Photoshop Tutorials

Getting started!

This tutorial takes your through the basics of Photoshop looking at cropping and selecting images and using layers and text. 

Advanced techniques 

This tutorial is more advanced using other tools and effects which you may wish to use in the construction of the magazine.

Google Sheet

Please CLICK HERE to access your individualised targets for this lesson.

Please comment if you achieve or make progress with a target.

InDesign Pinterest Board

Follow Sally's board InDesign Tutorials on Pinterest.

Taking a Good Image

Week 7 aims

Week 7 from Carl Percival

Download free call sheet template: http://howtofilmschool.com/free-call-sheet/

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/download-free-call-sheet-template-cast-crew-call 

Week 6 - Treatment sheet and primary audience research

Treatment Sheet from EmilyMoorby

PRINT TREATMENT SHEET

Week 6 from Sally Pickford

This document should present your ideas for your music magazine publication and showcase the features, colour scheme, house style, images and target audience for your product. You should also discuss which publishing house you would hope to publish you magazine and state why this house is suitable.

These are the subheadings for the contents page of your treatment sheet:

- Design (Detail how your front page will look. Discuss the choice of masthead and what genre of music your publication will promote.)

- House style (Discuss the choice house style of your publication. House style is 'the specific usage and editing conventions followed by writers and editors to ensure stylistic consistency in a particular publication or series of publications'. This includes font, colours, design of contents and page layout.)

- Target audience (who would be the target audience for your product? Give a detailed example of who your target market would be.)

- Cover information (how much will your publication cost? Will it be monthly/weekly/bi monthly. How much revenue would you expect to make?)

- Publishing house (which publishing house would print your magazine and why? Look back at your previous institution research.)

The pitch/treatment sheet should explain all of your ideas in detail. It should be professionally presented.

Popplet Support

Below is a tutorial on how to use Popplet. Make sure that you fully use all the features to bring your ideas to life!

Assessment 3 - Moodboard + Initial Ideas

Assessment 3: Create a mood board of initial ideas.

This is the start of the development of your ideas for your project. This should be EVERY idea you have had so far. Your final idea will be constructed in assessment 4.


For the print brief you may start and formulate ideas for the layout of the front page/contents/double page spread, genre of music your magazine will feature, cover stories, colour palette, choice of images etc. 

Present: You may present your ideas using Popplet. Please click here to access Popplet. It is FREE to sign up but please remember your password. 

STRETCH! To reach the higher grades you must 

Please see the link exemplar below: 

Initial Ideas For My Magazine from EmilyMoorby

How to use Slideshare

How to create a hyperlink

Assessment 2: Institution Research

PRINT BRIEF

You must conduct research into different publishing houses. This task can be presented in PowerPoint or a Prezi.



1. What titles are published by these publishing houses? Analyse the brand identity of their products. Are there any similarities between the products and house style?
2. Analyse the profits of the company. Which is there most successful publication and why?
3. Who is the target market for their product?
4. Offer a brief history of the company and consider how they have attempted to stay at the forefront of the industry.
5. Finally, how will you use this information in light of the ideas you have for your own magazine publication?

PLEASE REMEMBER: These questions are not exhaustive and I would encourage you to explore issues around institution further.

Here is an example as a guide:


  

Publishing Houses from laurensainsbury

Assessment 1: PRINT

Brief: Print

Using the following subheadings you must explore the generic conventions of MUSIC MAGAZINES. Use images to support your analysis of conventions of products.

- Genre Conventions/Conventional layout (What are the typical conventions of a magazine front cover and contents page. Use the correct key terms to identify these elements)

- Visual style (What colours, images and text are used on the front cover and contents page)

- Font analysis(What font is used? What does the colour and style of the font suggest about the genre?)

- Themes (Identify what kind of stories are usually printed in the magazines.) 

- Audience devices (Explain how all of the above attracts the target audience? Who is the target audience for music magazines? Be specific when describing audience demographic.)

Starting Point Induction Tasks

My starting point work book from Sally Pickford

New exemplar material here!

http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/