Unit 1 FACT SHEET DYLAN MCCLURE

Production Process

The production process is the process and stages in the making of a media product
and the three stages are pre-production, production and post-production.
The three key stages of a production process in a media product are

Pre-production
Pre-production is the planning stage when making a media product
Production
Production is producing and making of the materials needed for its make
Post-production
Post-production is the finishing stage of your production with editing and cleaning up

Magazine Production Equipment and Software

There are a few key items needed to publish and edit material for production which
include
● A DSLR Camera
● Photoshop
● Desktop Publishing Software
● A Computer

DSLR Camera
A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens reflex camera
The camera is used for taking high quality pictures and videos
and its needed for magazine production because of its high
quality photos and after taking a photo you can view the
photos you have taken and the camera is lightweight and easy
to use and it can be used to export images into photoshop so
it is able to be edited and the camera can be changed in
settings to blur foreground or background manually and they usually have really nice
pictures within them when you look at them the pictures can also be in really high
detail or low detail depending on what you do with shutter speed on the camera and
also depends on what you do with the f stop the camera with that can make the
pictures look like you are ascending or you are a ghost and the camera is also
durable and versatile and it also has a really good battery life and it also has better
autofocus than other cameras and it also has better lenses and better exposure
control so it also makes for better pictures than other cameras or a phone camera
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It costs £529.99 from Curry’s

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe photoshop is a a photo editing software and it’s used for
editing photos it is needed for magazine production to help the
photos look clearer and cleaner and it is used in the production
process for editing images and changing how an image looks
within Adobe Photoshop
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£27.98 for 3 months and £56.98 for 9 months both including vat

Desktop Publishing Software eg InDesign and Quark

Magazine Production Process

Pre-Production- Content
Pre production of content is where the team of editors come together to come up
with ideas of what should be in the magazine and the editors assign writers to
research and write on a specific article
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Pre-Production- Flat Planning
This Pre production of flat planning is to help see where the content goes and on
which page it should go to help them figure out what works and where adverts
should also go and this stage is important to make sure the next steps are
organised and with expectations

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Production
The team including the writers will plan the article and conduct research. The
articles they are doing will be written and they will do and arrange the photoshoots
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Production- writing and sub-editing
At this stage the sub-editor will check everything like spelling grammar and length
like whether it is too short or too long to make them write more or remove some or
write less and use desktop publishing software like quark to lay out the article,
image and content and use pre-made templates in line with the house style and
this stage is important because all the magazine pages are done.
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Post Production- Checking Printers Proof
It is sent to the publishers and they will then create a mock-up to give to editors for
their final approval
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Post Production- Completion and Distribution
This stages starts once the editors are ok with it to be published and the copies are
printed and assembled and sent to a distribution company then to retailers then
customers

Magazine Production Roles

Sub-Editor
The responsibilities of a sub-editor are:
To make sure that the writers are factual and they don’t harm the reputation of the
person they are writing about and to make sure it works and they work with others to
make sure they have all the information.
Writer
The responsibilities of a writer are:
The writer is responsible for researching what is needed and writing it in their own
words but keeping it true so it doesn’t harm the reputation of the person they are
writing about.
Photography
The responsibilities of a photographer are:
To take professional photographs of the model so they are in clear of the photograph
and to make sure you have necessary stuff so the photographs look better and to
understand how to use a camera