Prelim task evaluation questions

1. Did you plan your magazine? If not, what have you learnt about the importance of research and planning?
    
2. What technology did you use to complete the task and how did you use it?
    
    
3. Did you encounter any difficulties? If so, what were they and how did you overcome them?
    
4. How successful was your magazine? Please identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
    
    
5. What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework, do you think?

Prelim task and full brief

Print

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

 

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.