Very good use of the original newspaper pieces – as a visual on screen would not have backed you up as well. There is a great potential here as you already know – but as you have found out this project could also overwhelm you. You must start to organise now, and develop your own strategies to deal with information overload, contacts, networking, and creative ups and downs. You acknowledge that in the Lifestyle unit you held a lot of ideas in your head and wrote them down late – that narrative was good, but could be a lot better, so keep up with it in this project – it will be thoughtful and entertaining and a good piece in itself . Consider a dictaphone, or filming interviews etc. Gather secondary research(as in publications from other places) to use as comparisons, and clearly organise all primary material – such as other people’s work, so that you could develop this work after university.
Dennis
An intelligent, measured approach toward a perceived gap in the market. Is there an area of a similar size abroad that can be a comparison. With the magazines you used as examples – who publishes them? Community magazines often have an odd market – a wide appeal that actually captures no one. A very strong idea with such a wide range of opportunities – you are branding an Island! Could you go in conjunction with the tourist board. You need to be determined in your role as editor – introduce false deadlines. You’re buying a Dictaphone – could you stretch to a video camera hire? Or an on-site assistant? If you’re avoiding advertisers, a directory sometimes works as a listing – can be formatted to your editorial ethos. It may be interesting to get an approximation of a Lots of things to consider!
Nine minutes.
Johannes
Is magazine really the right media for this – you talk how the magazine industry is not flourishing - there must be a reason for this. Would online publication be a better platform for this?
Beyond looking at the Isle of Wight magazine – have you look at other equivalent formats?
Overall concept has a lot of potential – you just need to figure out how you can systematically manage this.
After this review, I felt very positive and motivated in my goals. I appreciated the constructive criticism's and suggestions. Reactions to this second early proposal completely reinforced my confidence in the project and my aims for the publication as a live project.
I straight away started emailed and calling around setting up meetings on the IOW and London for the following weeks. The positive comments really helped me find confidence to do this and it was reassuring that professionals who are not familiar with the island and its current status would have so much faith in this promotional vessel. It gave me the confidence to pitch my ideas with conviction to people I have never spoken to before!
This review really helped me.
My aims now are to organise as many interviews and meetings as possible, formulate some consistency in the photography aspect and start considering layouts for either a magazine or website. At this stage I am aiming more towards a physical publication as I feel this is the best way to get the content read and spread awareness. I could not see how I would approach the promotion of a website and get people and the relevant people to actually read it.
Overall, very happy at this stage and feeling excited as this is a project I am really passionate about as it as effected me and all of my friends. It is time for change!
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