Assignment 1: planning and sketching

Some great work going on today planning our Assignment 1 magazine covers. Here are the notes if you've missed anything:

Things a teenage audience may be interested in:
Sport, Football, Crime, Fashion, Basketball, Technology, Music, Celebrities, Movies, Comedy, TV shows, Politics, Gaming etc.

Design skills

Reading path
The standard reading path for western audiences is left-right, top-bottom.

Rule of thirds
Graphic designers and photographers often divide pages/images into thirds to create a balanced composition.

Visual centre

The visual centre is just to the right and slightly above the actual centre of the page

Assignment 1 production brief

Produce a magazine aimed at a teenage audience to be given away free with the i newspaper.

You need to complete a detailed planning document – giving you a title, slogan, target audience and what features you could include in your magazine.

You then need to produce two A4 sketches of your front cover (one with colour).

These three planning documents need to be in your folder before you participate in the photoshoot.