Group Meeting With Justine and Our Idea

Today we had our first group meeting with Justine and we came up with our idea for our campaign. Due to a recent assault that happened in Winchester we decided to do a Stay Safe campaign, our idea is called 'Stay Safe, Know Your Place' and we our going to try and complete it within the 2 weeks that we have left.

When we had spoken to Justine about it she said that some of the other groups have already chosen to do a stay safe campaign but that it works and that their is an audience for it at the end of the day.

Again, without the Project manager, these tutorials were being booked by other members of the group.

We are going to meet with Justine on wednesday to show her our research and hopefully get some new ideas for my role as content creator.

Project Manager: A No-Show

After many different attempts, we have not been able to successfully contact our project manager, which is frustrating to say the least. We have emailed him several times, tried to contact him through Facebook and even spoken to Justine about our problems. Therefore, a conscious decision has been made to start the project without him.

New Brief and Group:

Today I got an e-mail from Bethan Clift detailing that she is in my new group with Harry Webb (who is project manger), Sean Grossett who is production and dissemination and she is research. Leaving me with the last of the four roles, Content Creator.

The brief is about starting a campaign whilst trying to impliment the 'nudge theory' and change student behaviours in and around Winchester. The first thing we are going to do is contact our project manager (due to several of us being away) and start the project as soon as possible.

Starting the Magazine

Today, I am going to make a start on the magazine now I have been given all of the information from James on what he has written. The front cover and one of the articles will focus on Ed Sheeran, another on Coachella festival and the contents will obviously cover a wide range of topics.

Meeting Bex and Discussing Ideas

Today we met Bex for the first time in the Learning Cafe on campus and discussed the ideas that we have for the magazine. Overall, Bex is pleased with the idea that we have and that we should aim to make sure that the magazine that we are doing fits purpose. She also made a suggestion that we could maybe focus the magazine in on British festivals so it appeals more to the target market.

I then told Bex that for the layout, I am concentrating on NME as a point of reference for the house style. This is because NME is the post popular music magazine in the UK and that using this as a point of reference to design our own may be helpful to ensure that it is fit for purpose.

Our Facebook Page

Today, Harri created our facebook page in order for us to be able to communicate with eachother easier. Opening up the communication has allowed us to be able to share ideas and post documents for eachother that we can all have easy access too. This is obviously on top of e-mail and phone correspondence that we have regulary to ensure that the project is completed to the best of our ability.

Adobe Indesign CS5.5

The software that I have decided to create the magazine on is Adobe Indesign CS5.5. The reasoning behind this is firstly because I already have previous knowledge of the software when I created my A-Level coursework for Media Studies (see picture), meaning that I know how to navigate around the software and that it will save time when it comes to creating the product.

It's also because the software is what I would deem to be rather professional, which is something that all of us in the group want to come from our final product.