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these are my two magazines, the rough cut and the final product. clearly, i have completely changed the image. i believe the newer image is more framed and more targeted towards my audience as she looks popular (aka pop like) and very colourful connoting the genre of my magazine. from more audience feedback people said they would be more likely to my more recent magazine.

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Final Product

Article Planning

The changes to my original plan

After my pitch feedback for my first version of Listen, there were some good and bad points but i still was not happy with it. I wanted to do more of an interesting and colourful cover to reflect my genre of pop more.

I re-shot my cover, editing pictures more and also changed the colours so that it fit the 3 colour palette rule. From this i then changed my contents to create more continuity and also re shot some pictures there. I then also created my double page spread inspired my my cover and contents I had already created. I used the old cover to make a subscription section to my contents to make it resemble professional practice.

because i decided to change my magazine, i therefore made changes to the costume, locations and fonts. some of the changes follow:

COSTUME:

i have decided to put the model on the front in a leather jacket and a silky top as i thought it would make her look more edgy, unique yet still bold and pop like. i made her hair big and slightly backcombed. i decided to edit the photo on the cover as i thought it would enhance the colour emphasising the genreof the magazine. I re-shot the contents pictures as i wasnt happy with the original ones as i didnt think they looked professional. i also edited the girl band enhancing colour etc and i also re-shot the boy band to make them look more fun and carefree.

FONTS:
i changed some fonts, i didnt change the mast head (disco diva) but i did change the sell lines and other smaller fonts throughout the magazine as i thought the new fonts were more appropriate to the magazine and genre.LOCATIONS:

I changed the location on the cover to the bridge instead of the studio. it was the colour of the bridge that inspired some of the colour palette of the entire magazine. i did this to make the magazine look as professional as possible. i also used the studio for the girl band picture on the contents and the main picture on the DPS. i used the bridge for the smaller picture on the DPS as well, then i went to a new location for the boys picture. i took the picture in a local park (new risk assessment for this location below). the park connotes a more fun enviroment and it made it more natural shot.

Photo shoot Plans

pitch feedback notes

original magazine rough cuts

initial rough cut ideas

I played around with different fonts and colours for my mast head and decided to do the "disco diva" font I had previously thought about. I thought it was fun and related well to my genre of magazine. I knew I wanted the title "Listen" and the disco ball at the end which connotes the type of magazine. I knew I wanted to incorporate colour into my title somewhere I didn't know how or where so I experimented with my title.

the first one shows a black title with a colourful disco ball and the second shows all in colour. after peer feedback I decided to go with the black title and colourful ball as it was easier to read, more sophisticated yet  still fun.

For my sell line font I wanted to for something sophisticated and simple. I had two possible fonts I selected:

i liked both of these fonts so I tried them out on my cover to see which i preferred. i decided on Europe Underground as i thought it looked best when i experimented with my cover.

my main sell line is about the model on my cover i wanted to put the sell line across the page using a bold fun font. i experimented with different fonts on dafont.com and different colours on photoshop and came up with:

i thought this was fun and bold and also matched the disco ball in my mast head

Magazine schedule

10^th February Lesson – download fonts and start putting the front cover together for the rough cut. In this I will do everything apart from the main image.

10^th February Night (outside of lesson) – upload the recce of location and any other finishing touches to other parts of my work

11^th February Lesson – continue rough drafting the cover

14^th February Night (outside of the lesson) article planning for the DPS and layout of contents ideas

15^th February lesson – rough cutting contents

15^th February night- DPS planning

16^th February lesson (1 ½ lesson) – rough cutting DPS

16^th February (later that day) – taking some photographs in studio

17^th February lesson – editing pictures

17^th February night – some finishing touches to the layout etc.

18^th February (3^rd period) – take more photographs

18^th February lesson – put photographs in and make finishing touches

If at any point I am free I will come in at lunch times and more frees also. i also will have half term to improve on my blog

Recce of location

I am going to use two location for my magazine:
the first one is a studio

I will be using this for all pictures on the cover and the contents page.

I am going to play around with lighting to make the right effect with alot of impact.

I will use coloured films and spotlights to create a fun picture.

I will use the white background so the main focus is on the model, costume and makeup

The second location is a bridge. Its quite small and derilict giving the pictures an edgy look and with editing i will make it look the photos look colourful and effective making it fit with my genre.

Call sheets

Risk And Hazard Assessments

 



Model Release forms

Make up

 i decided to make the eyes quite smokey  

Font research

I went on the dafont website to investigate fonts which might be suitable to my magazine:

Arista is a simple font. The rounded bold edge makes it stand out

Another font that caught my eye is neon. Its bold and quite similar to arista except it has an outline which could look really effective in colour

Disco diva is another one that I really liked. It’s very pop, music like and fun giving it an appropriate feel to a pop magazine.
 

i liked all of these fonts and i experimented with each of them but eventually decided on disco diva as it was the one that fit my genre the best.

for my sell lines and titles i used a mix of inked god and other simple fonts so that it didnt look to busy on the page. i got these fonts using dafont.com and experimented with several different ones on my cover, contents and dps to find the correct ones.

Costume and prop ideas

For my main artist for the cover I want her to be unique and really edgy. i have decided to put her in a black simple dress as the image will be in black and white. i want to make her hair messy with simple makeup with quite smokey eyes.
For some of my female models, i want to keep my costume very simple as i want the main focus to be on hair and makeup, so i thought that i could put some of my models in LBD's (little black dresses) which i think is very sophisticated and striking. i also think black against the bright colours of my magazine will make a nice contrast.
 

For my contents page i have decided to do a mix of images, including bands.
 i thought this would be a better representation of my target audience.

So for the contents page i am going to include some males that are suitable for young adults. For their costume i am going to make it very stylish and fashionable.

these are the type of artists that young females like to listen to today so i thought i should include small a number of images on my contents page to represent that. i want the boys to be having fun to reflect the genre and the fun nature of the magazine.

Magazine pitch feedback

Flat plans

these are my flat plans for my magazines. i want to make the magazine quite colourful yet bold so it represents my genre. for the cover i either want the model in colour and the sell lines black and white, or the model black and white and the sell lines in colour. i think this will make it really bold. for the cover i want the main thing to be the images with the sell lines down the side, categorized into sections. i want my DPS to have a black background with half image and half text. i want the picture to be a silhouette as i think it will stand out and be a quite powerful picture.

Test photo shoot

Test shots

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Photography Research

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Audience Research

 

This is the magazine Blender's readers profile. It outlines the statistics of the type of people that read their magazine. The majority of the age of the readers is between 18-34, giving an average of around 25 to 27. Many of Blenders images are quite provocative, which is quite appealing to male readers, yet still very popular women that women readers can aspire to be and look up to. Most readers are graduated and employed making them well educated so the magazine must be targeted to this segment of people.

Billboard did not have a readers profile so i looked at the statistics for smash hits and top of the pops as they are aimed at the type of genre that i am hoping to create for my magazine.

 

The majority of this pop magazine's readers are female (82% majority) and the age range of the readers is targeted at 11-15 years, giving an average of the readers of both blender and top of the pops is 19, so i will aim my magazine towards late teens and early 20's.

 

 

 

 

 

I would like to aim my music magazine at trendies and hipsters, young adults that are really in with contemporary art, music scene. This would fit my target audience and also the aims i am trying to achieve from my magazine. I want women to be my main target audience, yet still appealing to men as well.

 

 

Following mu audience feedback I will include the following forms and conventions in order to appeal to my target audence:



I found that the two magazines were more targeted more towards women, due to the images, sell lines and colours. This will influence my decisions in colours and sell lines.

I found that the first thing everyone noticed were the images. I want to make my images bold and the main thing on the page.

The interviews highlighted the lack of information on the DPS of billboard so I will make sure there is more information.

I will always make sure that my sell lines are interesting and that the house style will continue to the next page.

 

Textual Analysis

Textual Analysis on Prezi

Initial ideas for my main task

The genre of music magazine I am going to make is adult pop. Like magazines, such as blender and billboard. I have chosen this because this is the type of music that I listen to and the sort of music magazines I read. I believe this is the type of magazine that can really be fun and exciting as pop can be really contemporary and modern.

Magazine and contents page

1.In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I wanted to make my cover of my magazine to look as realistic as possible

Comparing it to a real life magazine cover i noticed some similarities and some differences

These include:

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  the pose is very similar but the shot for Lucky is on a higher angle
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  the models are both positioned in the centre of the page with the sell lines placed around them
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  the fonts are fairly similar and they both have different sizes for the importance of the story
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  the lighting and the shot distance are very similar
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  i have a two colour palette (blue and black) but the Lucky magazine has a three colour palette (white, pink and red)
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  the content isnt similar as Lucky is a fashion magazine
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  both model have no props and a similar pose
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  the costume is very different but both work well with the colour of the magazine

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

i did not target one particular audience or group because i wanted to appeal to a large audience within the college. i didnt want to be gender specific or to fit into a tribe. the range of different types of stories is quite large so it appeals to a large number of people attending college. if i was to target a particular tribe i would be closest to indie as alot of people are individuals in college.

i have tried to make my model look as friendly and welcoming as possible, she looks like this because i have made her smile, slightly tight and not too serious and intense. she looks like a typical student.

3.Who would be the audience for your media product?

my audience is college students from trendies to indies. i want this magazine to be for people who are aspiring to go places within the working and education world yet still like to have fun in their spare time

4.How did you attract/ address your audience?

i tried to attract my audience by placing a yound student on the front who looked welcoming and inviting. on the contents page i placed her with a file to reinforce the fact that this is a student who is ambitious. the magazine contained so many sell lines and stories that are targetting students. this included what to do after college, during college and during college breaks. knowing i was targetting students it made it alot easier to design a college/ student magazine because i knew what to write about and what type of model to use. As i have used a wide range of stories and havent been gender specific or targetted one specific group it makes the audience wider. i believe this would make it more appealling to students.

i questionned a number of student about my product they all liked the range of sell lines and the layout although they thought that as it was only a girl on the cover it wasnt obvious it wasnt gender specific. this is something i would change if i was to redo this magazine cover.

5. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

every piece of equipment i used to make this magazine was new to me. i had never used photoshop, indesign, blogger, a mac and i had never taken a professional photo in a studio before but i enjoyed using it all.

i feel knowing how to use this software has definately developped my media and editting skills which will benefit me in the future.