Preliminary exercise

1) Write a 100 word statement of intent explaining what you are going to make for your preliminary exercise.


Statement of intent: 100 words explaining what you plan to make.

I am planning to produce a two paged magazine which will focus on a celebrity who recently launched their book about motivating and disciplining young minds who may currently be struggling with revising for exams, keeping a healthy diet, going to the gym to stay fit, struggling with a relationship, change in sleep schedule, keeping a healthy physical or mental health, reducing their screen time on their phone or praying to God in their everyday life. This book will help these young minds overcome these difficulties and potentially change their life.

The very first page of the magazine will contain features like a high-quality photograph of the celebrity in one of their most well known iconic outfits showcasing their most recent published book about motivation and discipline. Following this promotion, a text will provide and mostly cover a brief introduction and an overview of the celebrity's book which will try and convince young minds to purchase and read it to improve their everyday life. To do this, I will use a serif font for the headlines and body text to give the celebrity's magazine a more of a polished, worldly-wise and a civilized look.

The second page of my magazine will contain some more smaller original pictures of the celebrity and will cover topics such as "How advice about being consistent and disciplined from this book could change your life" 

2) Write an outline for your preliminary exercise on your blog. This needs to include talking points and photo lists. To see how a magazine is presented, and to look at professional examples, check out the following link which gives lot of tips and tricks on how to layout and plan your magazine.



3) Casting: Who will be in your magazine?


4) Plan your locations: Where you will shoot your preliminary exercise? (You can take photos off-site if you wish to do this for homework - this is what we would strongly recommend). Important note: You CANNOT take any students out of any other lessons OR disturb any other lessons in the school. If you wish to take shots in-school then you will need to shoot with Mr Ray supervising or after school with a Media teacher present. 



5) Write your shot list: every shot you plan to film. This needs to be far MORE shots than you will actually use in the final edited version - plan extra angles, close-ups, long shots and more. You can find an example shot list here. This is for a narrative film but the layout will be the same. 



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