Planning and Research

Action Plan

Week 1- We will be choosing what design we want and the colours for our magazine

Week 2- We will be choosing our images for the magazine and article that will go with the copy

Week 3- We will be drafting and coming up with the two copies and what stories we will need

week 4- We will be finalising the first and second copy with the images

week 5- We will finish the front cover and both copies and giving last touches

Research

We will be using a lot of research for our magazine and copy that we will be writing and in order for us to understand what current affairs magazines consist of we will be looking at a variety of current affairs magazine. We will be researching international and national news and information that will relate to our topic as well as looking at other sources. Other sources that we will be researching and using as a research tool is using the Internet as we will be getting a lot of information about social issues. However as we will be looking at political and economical issues we will be using newspapers and magazine as another research tool to look at statistics as well as other headline that may relate to our topic. As we will be needing authenticity for our articles and facts and some opinions we will be using books as a valid and more direct research tool as we will get quite a lot of information from there.

Weekly Progress

So far myself and my partner have looked at various current affairs magazines and looked and how we will be designing our magazine as the asthetic of the magazine is quite important. We have also discussed what issues we will be using in there and quite a lot of controversial issues we will be using and have looked at some examples and text. We have also looked at the type of layout our magazine will have and the copy design.