Planning- moderators report

•  Some excellent examples were seen where candidates had achieved everything required by the brief, including the full range of production detail, with some well-considered and appropriate photography being used and an overall design aesthetic being carried across both editions of the magazine, including the contents pages, and to the websites.
• chose their fonts with discrimination (not relying on standard body-text fonts to create sell lines or the masthead) and showed control in terms of size and leading.
• variety of images on the contents, with page numbers on the images anchoring them to the written contents, and appropriately laid out and sized text. 
• ‘cutting edge’ fashion periodicals (e.g. Dazed and Confused).
• the less successful magazines tended to miss key elements from the brief (including the production l detail), did not adhere to the codes and conventions of the form or did not meet the conventional expectations of the genre.