Front cover pictures

I choose this picture for my front cover as i think it is a good picture. Both girls are looking into the camera to grab the audience's attention and i think the pose of the girls is interesting to look at. I also like the colours, they stand out against the white which makes it look professional and the pink is a typical pop colour especially suitable for my target audience of young teenage girls.

Contents Pictures

I took these pictures to put on my contents page. They reflect storylines I am planning to put on my contents page.

drawing plans

Layout Plans

This plan is basic, but i like the idea of the pictures being scattered through the text- a technique I think ill use in my final design.

I liked the layout of this contents to I developed it further.

This plan is more detailed as i like the layout so i added more to it.

I began to draw a few plans of my front cover, contents page and my double page spread to help me when creating it and to see which layout would work best. I drew a few basic sketches and then went into more detail which helped a lot when i came to creating my pages on photoshop and indesign.

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.