2. First of all I started by brainstorming
ideas for names and fonts.
By this point I decided I wanted to make
a childish/teen magazine for a range of
genres but mostly pop.
My three main ideas were:
Rising stars
What's hot?
Obsession
I thought of rising stars because the
magazine would be full of new artists in
the charts. What's hot, was thought of
as its would show what is hot in the
charts. But overall I decided on
obsession because music is everyone's
obsession but who your obsessed with
always changes so its going to be filled
with obsessions.
3. So once I chose obsession
I tried to find lots of
different fonts. As my
magazine was for teens
and children I decided to
make it fun with colour
boxes and bubble writing.
4. Once i had chosen my mast head i decided to
create a house style for my magazine. I used all
the normal conventions of a magazine and
added my own twist of the bar down the side
to put other stories on it. Until i took m y own
pictures i used a picture of the internet.
5. Once I took some lady gaga style pictures i added them to the house style. But for the
pictures the house style looked too young so i decided to change the age range to a classy
early adult magazine like cosmopolitan but for music.
6. So then i tried to find a classy subtle title for my new style of magazine. I still liked the
name obsession though as everybody has obsessions.
7. Then after taking some more pictures with older looking models I put the mast
head on the top. But I thought this didn't look like a magazine so i was back to the
drawing board.
8. Then I found a prefect simple yet elegant title
which would attract the audience I wanted, of
women who want to find out more about their
favourite types of music. I then chose a picture I
liked out of the many I took and started to
create it. This then started to look like a
magazine. I added a strap line. This summed up
what my magazine was about. It gave a message
to the audience as obsession didn't get across
the music vibe but the strap line did!
9. Then I added the cover story, of
my main artist, Lilly Rose. I also
put on a cell line, which included
free posters which would attract
my audience. Posters seem quite
young so I added special edition
to make it more of a feature. I
also added a barcode as every
magazine needs one
10. But then I thought about the conventions of a music magazine and I thought that the
greys purples and pinks looked more like a fashion magazine so I decided to change it to
red as that is more of a conventional music colour, and a lot more striking. I thought red
would stand out and get people to pick it up off the selves whereas the purple isn't very
bold and it just blends in.
12. After thoroughly looking through my
magazine front cover I decided that it
didn't strike me as a music magazine
without reading about it, so to make it
clearer to the audience I decided to add
music to the mast head. I thought at first
about overlapping music into the
obsession mast head but that wasn't that
clear and took away from the actual
masthead, so in the end I settled for
putting it just underneath the masthead
13. Cell lines
Words like exclusive and wow draw the
reader in. The target audience would
catch on to names they had heard of
which would make them want to read it.
For example the band echo. If people
had heard of that then they would want
to find out about their split. Another way
this shows attraction to target audience
is its for teenagers and young women, so
best friends touring would make people
excited and want to read more. Because
its the genre they like they will cant to
find out about concert realise dates. And
if their are first ever interviews this
makes this magazine totally stand out
from others on the self and makes
people more interested.
These are known conventions of a magazine and they are
needed on every magazine. This is ways they can pay for the
magazine through the bar code. It also has the date and price
and issue number. The price is not as cheap as gossip magazine
but for a music magazine it is a normal price so that's why its
not big as its not a selling point as its not too cheap. The
website allows the audience to get involved.
14. The mast head is in capitals which tries to grab the
readers attention straight away. It takes up the
whole width of the page so isn't squished in a
corner. The font is bold yet italic, with quite a classy
look to it. It defiantly attracts the right audience by
the look of the whole magazine.
Another selling feature is the bold FREE
and the fact it says special edition
posters makes it sound more classy and
grown up then usual posters. Free
things always are what people look for
when buying a magazine so if i make
these posters sound amazing with
special edition in front it is more of a
selling point.
15. You can tell the genre is mostly pop due to the main image, the girl
is wearing very up to date ‘in’ clothes that reflect pop. But also
with a folk indie kind of twist with the hat, which reflect a Taylor
swift type of artist. The picture is obviously staged and modelled
showing she is going to be quite a big thing in the future. The
photography is very striking with the red lip stick and the direct
stare at the audience dragging them in . But the eye contact also
makes her look friendly and approachable. The mise en scene of
the costume is very fashionable but also quite plain, because she
was once just an ordinary girl like the readers of this magazine. The
fact she is quite young also attracts a young audience. The
background is very plain but she kind of blends n with it too, this is
later explained through the fact she has only just been spotted
before she was nobody.
The cover story is very
bold with a innocent twist
to the font and name. The
anchorage text is showing
new ways of finding out
about brand new artists.
This makes the audience
want to find out about
never seen before things.
16. These are some of my first ideas for my contents page, I tried to make it look conventional but
not the same as everyone else's. At first I wanted to go for a look that wasn't just writing it was
more pictures with the page number but s like 60 pages on it so I couldn't put 60 pictures on
one page so then I decided to change the la out to something else but still with the red involved
like from my front cover.
17. Then I started to add to add page numbers to see what it would look like and asked for peoples
different opinions. They said the second one looked more conventional so I started to work on
it.
18. I decided to work on my this contents page. The first one looked a bit squished up and I
didn’t like where ‘features’ was placed. So I rearranged and spaced everything out until I
was happy.
19. This is my finished contents page.
I used the idea of obsessions of the
week in my contents page to link into
my mast head. I included a subheading
of features and exclusive to make it
look more clearer and professional.
This also makes it easier for my
audience to read. I use the same color
palette all the way through my
magazine so everything links together.
There are large numbering to attract
attention and stand out for the
audience. There are lots of lures in the
bold writing so people get to see sneak
peaks of what they are going to read.
20. Obsessions of the week – this links in with the name
of the magazine and gets across the message I
wanted my name to get across, that you change your
music obsessions every week and my magazine will
show everyone's obsessions. The contents in the
corner makes it clear what this page is and shows the
date. There are also pictures which have the page
number to where you will find this article.
This is how I lay out the page
number at the bottom of my
page. It shows what issue the
magazine is, what its called and
the page number so you know all
the way through.
21. In the features article it says the page number and what is
on this page with a brief overview of what it is underneath.
This has to grab the readers attention straight away so they
turn to this page. Then once again there are pictures with
the page numbers in the corner to say where you will find
out more about this picture. The girl I used on my front
cover I put another picture of her in my contents page with
exclusive and the page number in the corners to show
exactly where to find this main article. You can tell it’s the
main article as it’s the biggest picture.
22. This is my finished double page. On my double page spread I have used lots of
pictures. All of them are medium close up shots. The main image is looking directly at
you as a good focal image. I then used lots of smaller images to show her look and
make the page more interesting. All the outfits and pictures link to the genre of
pop/indie. The color palette contents the same red look like all the way through my
magazine which makes it more conventional.
23. Here are some larger pictures of my magazine. Here is a quotation I got from my interview
which I thought would draw in the reader as soon as they got onto the page. The interview
is in two different fonts so you know who the interviewer is and who the interviewee is
which makes it clearer for the reader.
24. These pictures allow you
to see more of what this
new artist looks and
dresses like. Some of the
pictures have a guitar
with them to make you
know more about her
genre of music
25. The cover story heading shows who the
interview is about and the cell line above it
saying attention to grab attention and
summarise the article. I overlapped quite a lot
on this page to make it look more
professional. The house style is very
conventional to a magazine article with
columns and small font size.
The first start of the article is called a stand
first which introduces the article. There is also
a drop capital at the front of the article to
make it look more proffessional.
26. Colour Skyline
scheme Mast head
Exclusive
Photograph
Cell lines
Anchorage text
Cover story
Strap lines
Website
Lure Price and
Barcode
Selling points
27. Date
Pictures and page Contents
numbers mast head
exclusive
features
Sub
headings
Colour Page number
