contents i started/made and didn't like

by making these and not liking them it helped me to notice room for improvement and i was able to put in better conventions of a magazine, also arrange things different and change colours to look more proffessional.

some photos i took for my three final products

Design idea for my magazine front cover.

Magazine main colour ideas

Feature article ideas.

Image front cover ideas.

Testing magazine title fonts.

Breakdown of cast, props, setting, location report for magazine.

For my music magazine front cover I will probably take a photograph of my friend holding some jewellery or looking glamorous so that they look like a celebrity, the location won’t matter because I want to have a white background to make it look more professional so I can maybe edit it to another colour if I decide to. What she will wear probably won’t be anything that will stand out too much as the attention will be on her face although she will still look fashionable.

For my contents a will probably use male and female models in smaller images or a large image down one side to make it look more effective, the background will again be plain or the model may be against a wall or something to make it look more interesting. The props will not matter too much on this page as most of the images will be small.

For my feature article I will use either a male or female model looking fashionable either getting interviewed about a new fashion shop or visiting an event or even them telling a story about themselves being a new artist and speaking about the industry and other artists. The colours will remain the same as the front cover and contents.

Initial ideas for your own magazine.

The audience my magazine is going to be targeting is teenage girls of a working-middle class audience who are interesting in fashion, gossip, music, stories and celebrities. The purpose of my magazine will be to entertain the readers and inform them of new fashions, artists and music and also celebrity gossip and real-life stories and also celebrity stories.

The main three colours I am going to stick to is red, black and white maybe to make it look more professional or I may consider some warmer lighter colours that are more girly. My colours will remain the same throughout the magazine, or maybe changing shades to keep it looking professional.

My front cover will advertise stories and things that are inside the magazine, the fonts will vary in size and colour to make it more eye-catching, however I will only use two-three fonts to keep to a usual magazine scheme so it remains looking professional if you have lots of colours and different fonts and images it will look too jumbled, unprofessional and tacky. On my front cover I will have a central image of a celebrity looking person but it will be an image I have taken myself. I will have one or maybe two images on the front but only one main image.

My contents page will have a few different images on it and contain the pages that will be in my magazine, in my magazine I will have pages like embarrassing moments, fashion and beauty tips, where to shop, horoscopes, the top 40 music chart, gigs, and my feature article will probably be a story on a celebrity.

Full analysis of a music magazine.

Shout is a UK magazine for teenage girls. It carries articles on fashion, celebrities, flowcharts, true stories, music, problems and embarrassing moments. It is printed fortnightly, normally at £3.00 and is read by over 520,000 people each fortnight. You can tell that shout magazine is for girls as just on the front cover it automatically draws your attention by these warm girly colours, oranges, pinks and whites. The advertisement that is on the front cover includes fashion and an extra image of some pink uggs. It has a central image of a famous music artist giving the viewer eye contact that girls would look up to, she is looking pretty, fashionable and smiling whereas if it was for a boys magazine it would be more sexual.

You can tell that this magazine is for a teenage audience because the language used like an informal slangy “you-nique” (splitting the word up incorrectly) instead on the formal usual “unique”.

Its contents page consists of the same warm girly pink yellows and whites, keeping it to a female audience throughout. On the contents page you can see that the magazine consists of things such as gossip, celebrities, embarrassing stories, dancing, problems, competitions, fashion and much more things that a teenage girl would be interested in.

Even the feature article is aimed at a teenage girl audience “ so you think you can dance?” you wouldn’t really expect a boy to want to read an article like this that is surrounded by pink colours also, in this feature article the quotes pulled out are things like “I never expected to win the show.” And “Dancing makes me feel great.” This relates to a girl and would make them want to read it more so it appeals to the magazines particular audience. The story relates to the audience and then advertises places where they can go also.

The way this magazine applies its audience, purpose, and genre throughout the magazine is by obtaining the same girly, warm colours and featuring a celebrity almost on every page, looking fashionable or simply having fashion and looks on the pages and how you can dress the same. Everything in this magazine is somehow revolved around a celebrity and is kept to a girls point of view, the language and colours used are what is most important as these are what makes it mostly girly, like saying “oh my gosh” you wouldn’t hear a boy say that because it is aimed at how a girl speaks herself, by doing this it helps the reader to be able to relate as it is how they act in their everyday life and by changing how you speak can make it apply to different types on audiences and in this magazine they make it apply to a teenage girl audience.

Even the adverts are aimed at a girl audience by advertising perfumes, make-up etc, this keeps the whole magazine girly and targets it's audience to buy the products they are advertising as they are the type of things this audience in particular would be looking for.

Every page is full, there aren’t any spaces around so this makes it look more busy and exciting, also there is lots of colour and role models are used on nearly every page, the whole magazine is made to be relatable and entertaining, this is why it is a good seller for young teenage girls.

Institutional data: overview of industry

IPC Media produces over 85 iconic media brands with their print brands alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 44% of UK men – almost 27 million UK adults – while their online brands collectively reach 20 million users every month.

IPC's diverse print and digital portfolio offers something for everyone, with a focus on three core audiences: men, mass market women and upmarket women. Their men's portfolio (IPC Inspire) comprises a wealth of leisure brands including Country Life, Horse & Hound, Rugby World and Decanter, as well as lifestyle brands including Nuts, Mousebreaker and NME.
Their mass market women's division (IPC Connect) comprises famous women's weeklies including Look, Now, Chat and Woman; TV entertainment brands including What's on TV, TVTimes and TV & Satellite Week and, online, the goodtoknow network.

Their upmarket women's division (IPC Southbank) comprises luxury fashion brands including Marie Claire and InStyle, lifestyle brands including woman&home and essentials and home interest brands including Ideal Home, Livingetc and housetohome.

Institutional data: music magazine.

The New Musical Express (also known as the NME) is a popular music magazine in the United Kingdom, published weekly and it has been since March 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music magazine.
NME’s weekly price is at £2.20, around 56,284 people read and buy this magazine per year 73 percent of the audience being male and 27% being female the average age of the person reading this magazine on a whole is 25 and this magazine targets the audience of men aged 17-30 years old.
Facts that NME found out about their audience:
• 80% of NME readers feel that music is an important part of their lives
• 79% of NME readers like to listen to new bands
• 63% specially choose to listen to indie/guitar bands
• 49% specially choose to listen to live bands in studio
• 52% are interested in taking a musical Course/qualification
• 36% are thinking of buying a musical instrument in the next year• 72% have a broadband Internet connection at home
• 67% have bought something online in the last 12 months
• 59% agree they like to keep up with the latest Technologies• 34% are working full time, 18% are working part time and 26% are full time students
• 62% read at least 3 out of 4 issues
• Almost half (49%) have been reading NME for at least 3 years
• 84% think the magazine gives them what they want spending an average of 46 minutes reading each issue.

By finding out facts like these this helps them to adapt all this to their magazine in some way and make it more interesting for their particular audience, from this they have things to apply to the front cover and also most of their page and contents headings sorted out. And then also know that these things are what the reader wants and they know it will appeal to them.

This feature article has a middle shot image of a girl and she is giving eye-contact to the camera, there is three main colours used also, yellow, and black and red, these are quite summery colours as this is probably a summer issue. You can tell this feature article is aimed for girls as it has extra images such as make-up included on it. Also you can tell it’s for a teenage audience because the model on the left hand side is quite young and the wording used like “city slicker” is aimed at a younger audience as it is more informal “hot lips” also. There are two different fonts used, one for the titles and subheadings and the other for the descriptive text. By using different fonts and colours it makes it more interesting and makes the reader want to read it more as it is eye-catching and relatable. The sizes and colours of the text vary and by doing this it also makes it look more interesting and more professional.

Reviews for monsters Inc.
Shout magazine:
Catch Sulley and Mike and all their monster friends working in a factory that needs the screams of a young child to generate power! However the monsters are scared of children, I know it’s hard to believe right, but Sulley and Mike are scared silly when a little sweet girl wonders into their world, awwww. But they have to return her; does the top monster in the factory Sulley remain scared of her and return her? Or does he slightly get attached to her cute ways?
Packed full of misadventures and humour, it’s a film that is one not to miss, so snuggle up on a rainy day and watch this totally cute and fun film.

Guardian newspaper:
Two monsters simply trying to do their job. Collecting screams from young human children to generate power for their city. However these seemingly intimidating monsters appear to be scared of the human children as they believe they are dangerous and toxic, so it’s not surprise when a child escapes into the monster world everything’s let loose, monster checks, monsters running mad and so on.
Sulley being the top scarer and mike being his assistant do not want to have anything to do with the children, or they could be at risk of losing their occupations, they try to return the young human girl safely, but do they achieve it or do they get caught?
This is a not to miss film that faces some monstrous intrigue and some hilarious and unstoppable misadventures along the way.

This feature article is across two pages and it sticks to three main colours, orange, black and white, the colour of the orange changes shades throughout the two pages but keeps with the same colour in itself, this makes it look better as it doesn’t look tacky but keeps it looking professional and making it look more interesting by changing the shades of colour, also the white main text used is outlined by black, this keeps it bold and eye-catching. The other white text used is laid on a black background so you can tell they have thought through how they will keep it clear the read for the audience. The colours used are used to fit in with the type of audience that would read the magazine, perhaps a teenage audience who like to listen to rock music of a midlist class. There is only one font used, this keeps it looking professional and neat also. But they vary from having Caps Lock on and having it off, this is used to emphasis titles, and other bits of information that the creator wants the audience to notice. This feature article consists of two images, one main image and one other featuring image. The main image is placed on the left hand side of the page, it is a middle long shot of the band; taking up a whole page, the effects of this is so that if you’re having a quick flick through you will instantly see the artists and if they interest you then you will read on, the props that they are using is a hand-grenade, this relates to the type of people they may be, slightly destructive and violent, and loud, this relates to their music as they are rock/punk artists and their clothes also being dark. The middle person is making eye contact and one of the others that is holding a grenade is looking around, looking quite scary; and the other person is facing his head down but looking up at the camera, this is showing a slightly violent side. The language used has some rhythm “Stop, Drop and Roll”, this relates with them as a band also because it is referring to music. And “Back track” is using rhythm also. If people do not know who this band is at the top of the page; acting like a second title advertises the fact that they are “Garage-Rock artists with alter egos”.

There is three main colours used, black, orange and white, this is keeping to three main colour schemes like you are supposed to as if you go over five colours it makes it look less professional and everything looks a mess. There is one main picture in the middle and then two other images at the bottom and one has an orange tone to fit in with the colour scheme, one of the others is in black and white and another in formal colour. In the images they are showing bands playing or boys wearing quite fashionable clothes. There is a mainly middle-long shot used, this makes it more interesting. The fonts that are used are the same as the fonts on the front cover (varying between two or three fonts). This keeps the theme and colours similar so it looks more professional.

There is an image of a music artist laying across the bottom of the magazine with her legs going upwards however she is making eye-contact with the viewer; by doing this it captures your attention. The image used is slightly seductive and the colours are quite dull and dark, the three colours used are white, black and grey, this keeps it looking neat and more professional. Also there are two main fonts used, this also keeps it looking more professional, there is one bold and clear to read text and another fancy text to make it look better and more feminine, so you can instantly tell this is aimed to a women audience. The image is of Ciara so because she is young and she is the type of person a teenage audience would listen to and look up to, and it looks more middle class because the language is more formal than informal and its set out really neat and plain. The background is white and this makes the text stand out more as its black against a white background and it is sectioned off in parts categorizing it and page numbers to keep it looking orderly.

There is a middle-shot image of Eminem, placed in the centre of the page and he is giving the audience eye-contact, which captures your attention, however his facial expression is slightly scary and makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, so this may be fitting in with the audience of the magazine as it is in the rap genre so the audience will want to see a rap artist on the cover looking slightly angry as this fits into how rap is (slightly aggressive) and they want to see role models that they can look up to, looking like they would be hard and have big muscles and can intimidate people; Eminem’s tattoo’s fit in with this also. There is three main font colours used, black, red and grey, these colours are quite aggressive colours and relate to the image, also red and black in themselves are two very bold colours and when they are used together they really stand out, the colour (pragmatics) of red makes you think of danger, blood, aggression etc., and black makes you think of similar things including dark things, just because of the colour, so already the colours and the image both relate to each other to instantly infer to you what sort of magazine this is and what audience it is for. The colour of the grey divides the image by breaking up the red and the black. The title is big and bold, it captures your attention and has a gradient of black and red, and this automatically captures your attention because both of the colours in themselves are bold and quite aggressive colours. The text around the edge varies from being big and small fonts but always stays bold. The way the text is arranged captures your attention because it mentions the rap artist’s names bigger than the other text that is used, this is to capture your attention and advertises the fact that those artists are in the magazine. The grey text used breaks up the magazine and makes it look that little bit more professional. The gender of the magazine is obviously aimed at boys/men as they are using Eminem as a model for people to idolise and look up to, the type of people who listen to rap tend to dress like him and want to be like him so this is what they would want to see on the front cover to make it relevant to them as a buyer. The class of this magazine I think would be a working class because the language used is in informal saying about drugs and a middle/higher class wouldn’t really like to read about drugs.

The colours used in this magazine are mainly a gradient blue/green and black, with white also, this is sticking to three main colour schemes and relating and reflecting on each other. There is a middle shot photo of Pixie Lott (a big pop icon) and she is giving eye contact to the camera from a side angle, by doing this it captures the audience’s attention. By having a big pop icon on the front cover with a white background makes it more interesting and makes the young audience want to read it just because she is on the cover and some people may idolise her and she has the up-to-date music. This magazine is aimed at a younger teenage generation because of the person on the front cover, the fonts used, the things advertised on the front cover and the other pop artists that are advertised on the cover “Miley, Taylor JLS” are all young artists also, and are the type that the teenage generation would listen to. You can tell this magazine is more for a female as it advertises fashion on the front cover “your fashion future, hot off the rails...” this isn’t what you would expect a boy to be interesting in, or a parent either. The font used as the title is kept bold and easy to read, however Pixie’s head is covering part of the text, this is showing that she is the main focal point of the magazine. The font used to advertise her name is fancier and this is because it being more fancy and girly fits in with her type of genre and it is more eye-catching. The main texts used are blue/green is a gradient, this is more appropriate to a teenage girl as they like to see things looking pretty and interesting and different to other magazines making the audience more drawn to it. The other fonts used around the edges are blue, green, black and white, this sticks with the usual colour scheme of the title and makes it more bright, bold and colourful, it also makes a change to using the same colour and looking dull and boring, also there is two different fonts used, this makes a variation from having the same font throughout, I have also notices that the font varies in size, this helps to make more things stand out against others. Also I think a middle class would be more likely to read this as it is a higher sort of price however it advertises the fact that you can get 2 “Mags” for the price of two, this will also make the audience want to buy it more as you are getting more for your money, and by having it in this yellow shape which stands out makes your eye automatically drawn to it. The subculture I think that this person reading the magazine would fit into would be like a girly girl interested in music and fashion and stories also. Also the magazine advertises that it has life stories in the magazine and this may be what teenage girls want to read about for entertainment, because then in ways they can relate to them and look to them for advice.

Mood board and analysis of target audience for your magazine

The demographic profile of my chosen magazine target audience would look something like this,
the class of this mood board looks like a working class(c2,d and e) because it has images of people going clubbing and it has alcohol so this is inferring that they maybe go clubbing and consume alcohol, and I believe that a higher/middle class(a, b, and c1) wouldn’t really do this you would find a working class member more likely to be like this and you wouldn’t really find a higher class person reading The Sun newspaper as it’s more of a tabloid and higher class people would be more likely to read something like a broadsheet newspaper that has more constructed language.
The gender for my mood board would be mainly for girl’s aged around about in their teenage years; or maybe young adults. I can tell this because the mood board involves make-up and fashion and young celebrities such as Cheryl Cole and Zak Effron, which people of this age would be interested in and idolise or crush on. I thought the age would be teenagers because it has things such as technology (iPhone), fashion that is up-to-date, and an image of two people listening in on some gossip and the younger generation tend to gossip a lot, especially girls. And the physiographic profile would be “Individuals” being hard to classify because they are often young, or maybe “Aspirers” because they want the luxury lifestyle.
The regionality would definitely British because it has a TV programme such as the x-factor which is shown on British television.
From this you can tell that their hobbies may be going out with friends, partying at the weekends, following fashions/trends, watching television that includes a source of fame and idolise people like Cheryl Cole, so this relates back to the fact that I categorised my audience as aspirers as their physiographic profile. Also my audience like to eat chocolate but there is also a slight hint that they want to diet also, so this also relates to the physiographic profile as they want to eat what they want but they want the life of luxury and want to follow something that’s better than what they have and keep fit and slim. I chose to advertise the fact that these people may want to diet on my mood board because the magazine I chose often has headlines such as “Kerry’s diet plan”, and by them doing this they are representing that a celebrity has lost weight and they will tell you how to do it, so they are trying to relate to you, so to me I see this as in a way persuading the audience to be more of a aspirers physiographic profile.