WEEK 1: The week of September 24th –September 28th

magazine brand, Reader Demographics, Editorial Order,
Advertisements & Flatplans

In class:

Magazine brand lecture. General editorial order and advertisements lecture.
In class exercise: Organize your content into general editorial order—define your magazine sections within your FOB, Feature Well and BOB.

BREAK

Chosing your magazine size:
Blurb.com
MagCloud

Creating a flatplan lecture.
In class exercise: Create a flatplan for content order, pacing, number of pages, and potential grid structures.

Use this InDesign document to help you estimate length of each article (.ind file)
Use this template to start to build your flatplan (.indt file)

BREAK

Review summer homework in quad groups with post-it notes & with me (half of the class).

Checklist for summer homework.pdf

Homework:

1. Refine your summer homework.

2. Generate/Refine potential names for your magazine, if needed.

3. Finish organizing your articles for FOB, Feature Well and BOB, if needed. Collect extra articles if needed to flesh out each magazine section. (#3 needs to be completed by week 4)

4. Make a flatplan of your magazine to get order, pacing and potential grids. Build in spaces for advertisements. Use color to distinguish sections/ads/content. Print your flatplan with guide/grids showing (as thumbnails on a few pages).

5. Bring the collected text for one article and the images that you found for that article to class next week.