Main Coursework - Photos

For my magazine i took a wide range of different photo's . I made lots of differnt choices when deciding the mise-en-scene to create the final imgaes. In the end for the picture on the front cover of my magazine, i chose to go for a more homely feel for the girlband to have the pictures taken, i came to this decision as i feel it connects more to the audience and makes them feel more like the people they idolise. When it came to deciding what they shoudl wear in the images i went for a party, dressed up look with nice clothes, make up and nice hair i feel this works well as young teenage girls are intrested in make up, nice clothes and having there hair done. I think the elements included in the picture connects to the genre of the magazine as it includes girly thinks and lots of bright colours which ties in with the main theme of the magazine. I also used many other pictures throughout my magzine, on the front cover i used a picuture of 'Josh Hillman' i think this works well as young girls are intrested in him and staright away on the front cover you can see he is on it and will make people want to buy the magazine. I then used a picture of some make up and accesories this also attracts the target audience and appeals to them as its what they want to be reading about.

Main Coursework - Flat plans

This post includes the images of my flatplans.

This was my first idea for my front cover. I have used bright and feminine colours which conforms conventions of existing magazines. My masthead uses the font I orgianlly talked about it is bright , bold, and fun which attracts the target audiunce which appeals to a younger group of people.

My main sell is about the 'Candy Girls' which is a girl band I have invented, which is also the main image on the front cover of my magazine. I have used other sells such as top ten beauty secrets and and inside article with ' josh hillman' the the boyband heartrob, these all tie in with the theme of the magazine which appeals to the teenage girl audience.

I have used persuasive language and standout words on my magazine cover to, dramatise the stories and make the audience want to keep on reading.

For my contents page i used a big bold mast head to clearly state it is the contents page and so the audience can clearly find what there looking for without to much reading.My contents page includes a film strip of images which gives it a more fun exciting feel to it. The images in the film strip are labelled with numbers so they reader can easily find what they are looking without to much reading. The contents page of my magazine includes and editorial note from the editor of the magazine, this makes the reader feel more connected to the people writing the magazine. I have used a range of images and bright colours on my contents page to keep the on going theme of pop fun!

My design for the double page spread is all about ' Josh Hillman'. I again use bright colours and images of ' love hearts' to connect to the audience reading the magazine and give it a more personal feel using words like ' you ' this makes a connection to the reader as if 'josh hillman' is personal to them. I have the main masthead which is in large bold text so you see what its about staright away. I have a large range of images surrounding the main body texts. I also use pull quotes surrounding the texts which makes people read that and the go on to read more.

Main Coursework - Fonts

When it came to deciding the fonts for my magazine i researched and looked through a number of different magzine within the same genre of my magazine to look at the writing styles and fonts to see what fonts work and appeal to my target audience. When i got an idea of the style of font i wanted to use for my magazine i went on to the website www.dafont.com i looked through it and gathered a few fonts that would work for my magzine, when i had a few i put them against the images i had, to then decide which one worked the best for my magazine. The font that i finally chose appeals to my target audience in a number of ways; it has a large bubble affect and has a glitter affect which appeals to the audience and links to the idea of 'celbs and glitz & glamour'. The font is in a bright pink colour i chose this colour because when i did my target audience research you could see the number of girls that buy this genre of magazine is alot higher than the number of boys, and pink is genrally a popular coulour for young teenage girls. In comparison to the other magazine's i analysed in my earlier blog which also used bold colours , i chose to go for a more 'girly' look. I think this works well for my magzine especially with the particular issue as it includes alot of stories aimed at girls. Over all the font i chose fits in well with my magzine and hopefully will make the overall look complete.