-secondary research: queer characters from before the 2000s-

The Simpsons A main background character in the Simpsons, Waylon Smithers, was confirmed to be a gay man in episode 17 ‘The Burns Cage’ where he comes out to Mr Burns, his boss. The Ambiguously Gay Duo A program that aired on Saturday Night Live in 1996, when i first saw it i hoped it

-design ideas-

before starting my initial design ideas for my magazine cover, I wanted to have a look at other pre-existing animation/ anime magazines to get an idea of how I could possibly present the cover. one key thing all these magazines have in common is a one or more characters (whether popular well-known ones or their

-primary research; LGBT+ animation survey-

overall, I was pleased with the outcome of this survey. I had a pretty good range of responses and the questions I used gave me the data I needed. The only thing I would change is using better questions and checking I haven’t missed anything out (eg: I accidentally skipped an age bracket).

-primary research; magazines-

the first magazine here follows a black, white, and gold minimalistic style throughout. the pages are well organized and tidy with none of the usual cliche chaotic sporadic style of most music magazines. It’s much more sophisticated and, the organization style at least, I would like to draw inspiration from for my own final magazine.

-zines-

as part of our research and experimentation, we created prototype zines. Overall, these were fun and easy to do. I feel I may use this to help with prototype designs for my final pieces as they are small, cheap, and easy to complete. I had to do 8 panels and make sure some were upside

-printing prices-

Blurb blurbs starting price for a premium magazine is £3.99 for 20 pages and an additional 20p per extra page. That overall sounds nice and cheap for a good quality product however, the postage is more expensive, £8.99 for standard delivery, which takes around 13 days to arrive. Express delivery however is significantly more expensive,

-project proposal-

Rationale (Max 100 words) In my previous project, I feel I produced some of my best work however, I still had some issues which I wish to avoid in this project. Two main ones would be time management and focus. If I can do these two things, then this project should be more successful than

-initial ideas-

for this upcoming project, I have a few different ideas although, one I do think I will stick with for my project however I still wish to vaguely look into the other topics. Idea 1: Legalisation Of Weed my idea for this would be to bring awareness to how much safer weed could be if

-remaking an article-

In my opinion, one massive flaw in this news story is the somewhat unnecessary information within it. Attempting to condense that to fit into an A4 spread proved very difficult, especially considering the task was to make it more legible. The fact I couldn’t make it funkier to suit my own preferences in layouts (as

-how news has changed-

before the world of technology, the way news was distributed was through newspapers, and while we still have them today, the most common way news is consumed is through the web, social media, and T.V. It’s more the older generation that uses newspapers in today’s society, as well as watching the news on the T.V,