Blog checklist

 

Below is my blog checklist, the ones highlighted in red are the ones I have completed and are uploaded onto my blog, the others that are not highlighted are the things that need to be done and uploaded by Easter. I use my checklist often to make sure that I include everything I need to on my blog :)

 

Planning and research:

 1. Type up the Brief and post it on your blog.
2. Identify and explain choice of music genre

-          post pics of bands and youtube vids etc.

3. Market research into existing magazines that work within the same music genre as yours (e.g. they are competition). Analyse the conventions of each of the following using LIIAR:

- Front page

- Contents pages

- Double page features4. Target audience

Refine your ideas of target audience using demographics and psychographics - see powerpoint slide  for help.

- Audience research (existing reader profiles) e.g to be posted on blog with a minimum 250 word summary

- Demographics explanation/definition and a table of the grading system A, B, C etc. minimum 200 word paragraph explanation

- Uses and gratifications model research in the theory referencing all books and internet web pages (300 word minimum write up)

- Focus group: Planning and recording posted on to blog

5. Price

How often will your magazine be published and why? (relate back to your refined target audience e.g. what can they afford?)

6. Initial ideas based on your market research

(thought showers, hand drawn drafts etc - scan them in on the scanner in the edit suite).

-Mood board and initial ideas spider diagram

7. Digital mock ups using found images

can be done on Photoshop / Publisher - remember to save as .jpg files

-          Other inspirational ideas that pull together your genre in relation to styling and planning a shoot

8. Planning / development:

Stage one: Set design and styling initial ideas

-Initial idea mock up front cover, contents page and double page spread ICT

-initial idea mock up front cover, contents page and double page spread HAND DRAWN

-Costume ideas

-Mise-en-scene/ location ideas

-Lighting ideas

 Stage two: Take LOADS of images

Remember, you have three products to produce and all of the images need to look like they belong together. Post all of them (or a selection of the best) to your blog and explain your choices.

- Maybe you could film your photoshoot and load it onto your blog.

- Start mocking up ideas (can be done on Photoshop / Publisher - remember to save as .jpg files)

Production:

9. DRAFTS!!!

- Do absolutely loads of these in Photoshop.

- Save your work as a jpg. Every time you think that you are finished, get some feedback, post the feedback, then do ANOTHER draft!

*REPEAT STAGES 7, 8 & 9 for each of your products e.g. Front cover, contents page, double-page spread*

10. Write your article and post it.

- Get it checked.

- Get it checked again.

- Repost it with mistakes corrected to show your dedication to perfection.

11. Final products posted.

12. Suggest how you would promote the launch of your magazine on the internet e.g. viral marketing campaigns.

- Perhaps you could even mock up a homepage for your magazine's own website based on research into existing magazines and their websites. maybe you could www.wix.com

- Suggest how the relationship between the online and print version of your magazine would work e.g. what would be in the print version to make people BUY it rather than looking at it for free online? What are the benefits of engaging the audience via the website?
13. Audience feedback on your final products and ideas for your online version.

14. Respond to audience feedback in LIIAR evaluation of your own work.

15. Do ANOTHER draft of all three products for MAXIMUM geek-osity :o)