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Lecturers: Malvin Van Gelderen/Andrew Adamson/Chris Horrie

Details for 2004:

In part one of the project (26, 27, 28, April and 04 05, 06 May 04 in the High-End Newsroom, J2)

Students will be learning magazine and newsletter design with Malvin Van Gelderen.

Subjects covered include:

* Typography

* Magazine and newspaper layout using Quark Xpress

* Picture selection and processing using Photoshop

The point of the first phase is to prepare students to work on the joint production of a single edition of a consumer magazine in the remaining weeks of term.

The first assessment, however, will be the individual production of a four page newsletter (the subject matter is of each individual student's choosing). Below is a typical example of recent work produced for assessment, an animal welfare newsletter.

After completing the newsletter, students select particular roles on the "main" magazine production team (essentially as either a feature writer or as a production specialist).

The magazine will have a very extensive range of features, extensive photography and more complex design. Last year the magazine "Out of Hours" had sixty pages and was printed on glossy paper.

This year the plan is to enter the PTC Magazine Academy Excellence Awards for student journalism and win it (last year we did not enter, but the work produced was well up to standard with Cardif university, who did). The cover of last year's magazine is below. This year students may choose a different title and/or subject matter. Copies of last year's magazine will be made available at the start of the production process.

Last year's editor was Gil Meyers of BA Medical Journalism.

Cover of last year's magazine project