News and Magazine production - Week One

The first week of the magazine production began with forming a group. The group, which initially was made up of four people later expanded to eight. We decided to take on the idea of “Alternate living” as a theme for our magazine and work towards it, each group member would be assigned to contribute one main feature which was to be around 800 words, with pictures and to cover a double page spread in the magazine. Though there were no upper limits on the amount of pages it was suggested that a magazine of around 16-20 pages would be sufficient and easily achievable. The group began to look into which features each member would individually contribute. Music, photography, food, lifestyle, sports were obvious choices however we did find that filling the magazine with features was harder in practice than it was during the initial planning stage.