Step one: Pre-production. There is about a week, where we really try and get solid stories and work through them. We start out by having a discussion about the best stories and then we keep on narrowing it down. Once we decide which stories we want in the paper, we give the writers the story assignments and they decide what to do with the stories.
Step two: Production. We start producing the stories, working on page layout skeletons (setting up the pages on paper, to transfer what you want to pages) and making our paper what it is. This is the time where we actually have to get stuff done and work the hardest. Most of the advertisements we are going to use come in during this "step" (we actually don't have steps, I'm just simplifying it for the sake of this post).
Step three: Production, part 2. This is where we finalize the paper and get it ready. This is where we really start to edit our stories and finalize them (copy edit them, make sure all the style rules are in place and all grammatical errors are ironed out, regardless there tends to be a few that slip through every issue). We finish our page layouts and spend hours at work session getting it together. Then we send it in for our final production.
Step four: Post-Production. This is where we handle all the things that lead us up to distribution week. We send out things to our advertisers, talk about how the issue went, and work on anything else that needs to be done.
Step five: Distribution. A week where we wait so long for Friday to come. Distribution comes to play on Friday, where we get boxes of our fresh magazines, and we're all happy because our work finally goes on display to the whole world (regardless I doubt many of them even leave our town). We go to each class in the school and give out the magazines and then we read over our work again. Distribution is one of the funnest parts of being on a production staff, because everyone gets to see what you've worked so hard for.
Step three: Production, part 2. This is where we finalize the paper and get it ready. This is where we really start to edit our stories and finalize them (copy edit them, make sure all the style rules are in place and all grammatical errors are ironed out, regardless there tends to be a few that slip through every issue). We finish our page layouts and spend hours at work session getting it together. Then we send it in for our final production.
Step four: Post-Production. This is where we handle all the things that lead us up to distribution week. We send out things to our advertisers, talk about how the issue went, and work on anything else that needs to be done.
Step five: Distribution. A week where we wait so long for Friday to come. Distribution comes to play on Friday, where we get boxes of our fresh magazines, and we're all happy because our work finally goes on display to the whole world (regardless I doubt many of them even leave our town). We go to each class in the school and give out the magazines and then we read over our work again. Distribution is one of the funnest parts of being on a production staff, because everyone gets to see what you've worked so hard for.
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