Research and Planning

Research and Planning: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions and the process of making plans for something.
Research and planning is important when creating anything, it is essential that you know what you're dealing with and to think about the obstacles you may have to overcome. It is essential to be prepared so that you can complete what you aim to complete.

This is why before I started my project I completed detailed research into existing magazines which would be similar to the product that I wanted to create, so I looked at magazines such as NME and Kerrang! and with this I analysed them in great detail, allowing me to be influenced for ideas for my own magazine. I also did research into institutions, representation, audience and the codes and conventions of my music magazines, this allowed me to develop a proper understanding of what we would be found in a typical magazine and allow my magazine to compete with existing magazines of a similar genre.

I also had to conduct planning into my research, I did things like names brainstorm and masthead designs to decide on for my final magazine product, and decide on a colour scheme which would be suitable for a magazine of my genre, I had to go with bold colours as this was typical for my target audience.

I also had to plan my photoshoot, and plan things such as props and costumes which were suitable to my target audience, this meant that I had to use my research to find out the sort of things my audience could relate to.

I then also had to create paper and draft copies of a brief plan of what I wanted my magazine to look like, this would come to help me when I actually moved on to start the real version of my magazine.

Planning also came when I had to create my Final Evaluation as I had to produce an essay of my overall work, but this had to make sense when it was read out and recorded for my video, I then had to produce images and videos to go along with this, planning was essential to this because it all had to link and make sense to what I was talking about in the voiceover.