Feedback 22/4/09

Very good Chloe– you now need to scan and upload rough sketches for your magazine, props/costume list. discuss your locations chosen for your shoot and comment in detail on these. Also upload your photographs taken and comment on why you chose the ones you did for your pages – how did the shoot go? Etc… Remember to keep blogging on your progress!
Miss McNulty

Mood Boards

I did a couple of mood boards to inspire me with my magazine and photo shoot. The overall image of my magazine is colourful, informal, chatty and music gossip. The mood boards have given me lots of ideas for my front cover image and all my other photos i need to take. It has also given methe idea of using a mix of fonts.

Quentionnaire Results

I asked ten teenage girls as they are typical to my reader profile and asked them a series of questions.
From looking at their answers i have come to some conclusions.
The price they pay is between 1.50-3.50 and they buy magazines weekly.
Most of them liked girl bands/female artists.
A lot of them didnt read many music magazines but fashion ones instead.
They liked their magazines to have lots of pictures.

These results will hopefully give me some inspiration and help me to meet the needs of my target audience. The things that have stood out most is that i will need to make my magazine visually interesting with lots of pictures and also include features of fashion magazines.

Contents page sketch

As part of the priliminary task i had to sketch a plan of how the student contents page would look. I like this set out of the contents page as it is simple and clear and i would like to use the idea of titles in boxes in my magazine. I also like the pictures with page numbers on them.

Reader Profile

The type of person most likely to read my magazine.
Age: teens 12-17
Occupation- Student
Economic Status- D/E
Sex- Female
Hobbies/Interests- Going out, fashion, music, celebrities/gossip.
Fashion- Girly/fashionable.

Feedback 26/3/09

Good analysis and prelim task Chloe - well done!
Yes - do an analysis of covers and contents pages too - to add to your research.
Where is your questionnaire and results? remeber to link this to your target audience.
Next you need to scan and upload your mood board and rough plan for your pages.
Remember to keep blogging your progress every week!
Miss McNulty

Evaluation of a contents page

I find this contents page interesting as it has lots of images on it, and the text fits around the images- something i would like to do in my contents page. This contents page also has pictures with page numbers on which i think alot of people would use rather than looking down the list.
The text is broken up into sections and has a lot of space around it making it easy to read and so i will consider this when designing my own. Finally the use of colours is good as the colourful pictures are a contrast to the black writing which makes them both stand out and both easy to read/look at.
The text on this contents page is broken up so much it has been spread accross a double page. This is not something i will be doing as i feel it is unnecessary and so i will try and keep my contents as spread out and open as this whilst keeping is on one page.