Production Plan

Unit G321 – Foundation Portfolio in Media – Production Plan Jonathan Sheehan - 2127

Week beginning: Monday 10th November 2014

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Discuss with James whether he would be up for staring in my magazine.

Consider final equip-ment and props needed and and conformation from James.

Design and draw my hand drawn drafts for the front cover, contents page and DPS.

Use Adobe PhotoShop to draw a basic outline for the start of the cre-ation of my magazine. Designing the masthead and sub headings.

Decide the locations where I would want to take James to photo-graph, inside or out-side using artificial or natural light.

All the props I have listed must be in my position ready for the photoshoot.

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Tuesday 11th Novem-ber 2014.

Wednesday 12th No-vember 2014.

Thursday 20th Novem-ber 2014.

Monday 17th November 2014.

Sunday 16th November 2014.




Take the props to James’ house after school for the photo-shoot to commence.

Take the photos of James at the variety of locations listed.

Use the best photo-graphs and delete all bad copies and unus-able images. Import to my school area ready for photoshop.


Thursday 20th Novem-ber 2014.

Thursday 20th November 2014.

Monday 24th Novem-ber 2014.




As my images are now ready I can now manipulate them, re-moving the back-ground and using fea-tures such as the blemish tool.

All of my small features such as the issue num-ber, date and brand iden-tity will be enforced and created.

Front cover is now completed and final checks are now being made to make sure it is the best it can be.

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Thursday 27th November 2014.

Monday 1st December 2014.

Week beginning: Monday 1st December 2014.


Use my drawn draft as guidance to design the layout and where the features should be placed for my con-tents page on photo-shop.

Continue final checks on front cover.

Continue final checks on front cover.

Front cover due date and must be completed.


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Week beginning: Monday 8th December 2014.


The contents page will officially start and I will be adding fea-tures such as the dif-ferent stories and de-tails.

Meet with James again to take the images for the contents page.

The photo will be placed into the contents page with the correct filters, effects and enhance-ments.


Monday 12nd January 2015.

Monday 15th December 2014.

Monday 15th December 2014.



Images have to be edited and placed into the page to make sure I can continue further.

I will make sure that all of the features fit into their designed layout.

All stories will be added with reference of my flat plan.

Highlight the main story as I have now had a ba-sic thought what the in-terview will entail.



Monday 15th Decem-ber 2014.

Monday 22nd December 2014.

Monday 22nd December 2014.

Friday 19th December 2014.

Week beginning: Monday 22nd December 2014.


Write my editorial and double check it for spelling mistakes, making sure that what is siad is of impor-tance to the reader.

Add the editorial into my contents page using a text box for a basic layout.

Design my editorial around the social me-dia box using the pen tool.






Insert a photocopied version of my signa-ture and from black ink effect to white as my background is black and needs to

Finish my ‘social media box’ which will give the reader all of the infor-mation needed for an online extended experi-ence with the magazine.

Check over the whole page for spelling mis-takes and make sure the layout fits.


blend in with the rest of the font, this will be completed using Adove Fireworks.


Tuesday 13th January 2015.

Monday 19th January 2015.


Week beginning: Monday 5th January 2015.


Final touches for both he editorial and con-tents page making sure that all correc-tions that I have col-lected have been made.



Week beginning: Monday 12nd January 2015.


Design the basic lay-out for my DPS on Adobe InDesign.

Lay out the questions that I will insert into the design using text boxes.

Write the questions I want to use in my in-terview, these have to


be exciting and worthy of using.



Friday 16th January 2015.


Week beginning: Monday 19th January 2015.


Take the photo of James for the DPS. As there is just one photo on this page it needs to be striking.

Insert the edited image into the DPS and work it into taking up the whole of the right page.

Write my whole inter-view into the DPS and fit the whole text onto the left page, using some the right if needed.

Keeping the brand iden-tity I will use the lotte papering font to copy ‘JAMES BRICE’ over from the front cover. I will also add other fea-tures such as the intro-duction in the top left.

The DPS, Contents page and the front cover should now be finished ready for sub-mission.


Tuesday 20th January 2015.

Wednesday 21st January 2015.

Thursday 22nd January 2015.

Friday 23rd January 2015.


The first stage to making a magazine publication is setting up the date in which you are going to publish it which usually takes a day or two, these need to be realistic as it is going to be available for all the public to see.


The second stage in sorting out the schedule which is extremely important. In order to proceed successfully, meeting deadlines is the key to success as you do not want to disappoint to public by delaying your release date. Even when faults occur you must have everything by the final deadline. This process usually takes between 2-4 days.

The topics will be involved in the magazine is the next process. The editorial team will come together to discuss and analyzed this, this is important as it is the heart of the magazine and could determine whether it succeeds or fails. When the stories are discussed, budget re-quirement s are analyzed and they have to look into whether the money is available to spend on what these stores require. This stage usually takes between 2 to 4 days.

Deciding the content is probably the most important factor of the magazine as it is the heart and soul. There are two ways in which the content is gathered, the first is in-house writers wring the content for the magazine and the second is out-of-house writers who are asked to work when needed. The graphics and artwork are also generated at this point where pictures are taken and edited with the computer programs necessary.

Next if the company is well enough t have a sub-editor they will, however if not then usually the editor just carries out this role, s(he) is re-sponsible for the roles of:

• Designing the layout of the pages• Making sure there are no spelling mistakes and that grammar and punctuality is used correctly• Making sure that all the artless follow the style of the magazine• Double checking all facts in the stories to see if they are true.

Within publications there is a term called layout staff who organize all of the content on the page. When doing this they use extreme pub-lication programs in order to complete their job. In this stage adverts are also added. This usually takes 1-3 days.

When proof reading the editorial department prints out a hard copy in order to find any mistakes. It is easier to proofread a hard copy, an mistake is spotted much more quickly and can be easily corrected on the DTP file. The team keeps going through the magazine until ev-ery mistake has been corrected. Proof reading can take up to 2 days.

After the proof reading period the magazine is sent to the printers whose job it is to make sure all the desired copies are printed. Pre-press happens just before printing where all the fines and images are tested to see if it all looks right when printed. When this is over the hundreds of thousands of copies are printed. Printing can last for days as large numbers are usually requested.


When distributed and the printing company have finished with the printing, they are then packaged and sent to the warehouse. From the warehouse the magazines are sold to the public. Distribution can take up to 6 days depending on factors such as speed of the couriers and the quality of the magazine.

This process for a monthly magazine issue generally takes between two weeks and 3 weeks due to the amount of detail and quality put into making a decent product and constant reviewing of correcting the magazine.

Source from: http://www.hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process

http://www.hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process

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