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6. Plan and Develop Pre-Production Materials (U3 P3:M2)

P3: Develop pre-production materials for an original media product
M2: Legal and ethical issues are identified and resolved for the planned production

Gantt Chart:
Used in project management, a Gantt chart provides a graphical illustration of a schedule that helps to plan, coordinate, and track specific tasks in a project. This will help me keep track of what part of the project I am working on, and whether I am on track or not. It will also allow me to know how much more work I need to do until the project is completed.

Model Release Form:
A model release, known in similar contexts as a liability waiver, is a legal release typically signed by the subject of a photograph granting permission to publish the photograph in one form or another. This is means that no legal action can taken against me, and once the photos are taken I can publish them on my from cover for issue 1. If my model was under the age of 18 then it would be ethical and legal to get their legal guardian/parent to sign the form as they can not legally sign for themselves and they my not understand the contract.


Location Release Form:
A binding contract between the photographer and the owner of the private property the shoot is to be taken on. By signing the release, the owner of the property can not sue for specific types of claims. This was important to me as it meant I could use the location I wanted to take my photos of my model without worrying about braking any laws. In the end, as the photos were taken in a public area this was not needed for the model shoot.


Risk Assessment: 
A risk assessment must be taken and made for on the set and off the set (within reason) so that no legal action can be taken by the staff or models on set. It means that you look at the set and assess any potential risks which can cause damage or an accident and you make sure you know ways to make sure these do not happen. 


Location Recce:
This refers to visiting to a location before the shoot to determine its suitability for shooting, including access to necessary facilities and assessment of any potential lighting or sound issues, and is closely related to location. It is ethcial if the director and photographer go to the location first in advance so that they do not make all staff and models come out to the location to find that it will not work. It also allows you to create your risk assessment.


MoodBoard:
An arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept. The moodboard helped me to pick the colour scheme and fontd that I will use for the magazine. as well as this it helps to give a better feel of what you want to portray with the magazine in the development phase as it makes it easier to make decions on the magazine.


Layouts, Fonts, Colour Scheme:
Layouts: 
This would an important part in the intial look of the magazine. Considering the good feedback I got off the show prints, it allowed me to move forward and focus on other areas that needed strengthing. It is mature look as we wanted to give off the feel of a high end magazine for a good price.
Fonts:
The fonts were picked off of the feel the music gives off. This helped to represent to visual styles I wanted to give off and appeal to. The ones selected work well together and are final as they look good on the front cover. The MastHead and the CoverLine have been taken from www.dafont.com, so to exterminate any chances of copyright I messaged the creators of the font and had to settle at a small fee to have permission to use the fonts in the magazines.


Colour Scheme:
The colour scheme is black, gold and white. The gold represents the underlying genre of bling and jewellery and the black represents the hood, dark nature of the genre. The main feature colours will most likely be black or white (more likely to be black) as they are both easy to read depending on the back round colours, and they are the easiest to read on most other colours. 



Legal and ethical issues:
Ethical
We will promote our online subscription so that we aim to not need to print and use paper so much. As well as this, whilst we have looked at using biodegradable paper, this would be a waste as if you buy the edition in paper you may have the aim of keeping the issues and collecting them. Therefore, if the paper was biodegradable then this would not be possible.

Legal issues
The easy legal issues to deal with is making sure that that all the content in the magazine is original, same for the pictures used. I also can not make any statements that i can not back and that are not true. Opinions are fine but in the article you can not make a definitive statement that is not factually true.

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