Production Meeting

Friday 21st September

After a full week of work on the student magazine, where all members of the group were present each day, we have progressed immensely throughout the project so far.

All of the secondary research has been completed with a detailed analysis of different strengths and weaknesses in a couple of online magazines being discussed. After finding some influence from the results, we mind-mapped our thoughts and opinions for the best initial outcome of our own magazine. Forming these brain storms into a number of questions, we travelled around the college handing out 50 of these questionnaires in order to find out their varied opinions on the publication. We have also taken pictures of some graphic design books to help us emulate some page layout designs with regards to colour, structure and placement. 

Recently, we have just begun to draft a number of front cover and contents pages. This will be continued throughout the next few days and upon completing 3 or 4 different versions we will go back out and ask peoples opinions. 

After this production meeting we have a good idea of what jobs are still needed to be done. It was decided that to make sure our magazine drafts the best they can possibly can be we will take the designs and submit them to a small focus group, asking them questions about the outcomes. These questions were:

1. What is your favorite front cover design here?
2. What is your favorite contents page design?
3. Is there any aspects of the different designs that you would put together to make a better one? (take the font from one and put it with a layout of another etc.)
4. Do you like the colour of these designs or would you change any of the colours?
5. Do you have any other comments to add?