The magazine front cover summarizes the key elements used in the design. It uses a close-up shot of the band Greenday looking directly at the camera to draw in the target audience. The color scheme is primarily black and grey to convey a punk/rock theme. The band name is written in bold green font to make it stand out. Additional information uses varied fonts and colors to emphasize important words relating to the magazine's genre. The overall design aims to appeal to the target demographic through its representation of the band and use of stylistic elements reflecting the rebellion persona of the audience.

1. For my preliminary magazine, the Mise-ene-scene was basic and dysfunctional to any techniques used to attract a target audience. Following this, from looking at this magazine, their is no specific target audience, genre or motif for the magazine. The image used has been edited to a satisfactory standard but doesn't convey a stereotype or create any appeal for itself and it incompetent for the magazine. The technology used to edit the magazine together was minimal and was easily identified through the layout of my magazine. From feedback of other pupils in my college an example of some of the negatives that where brought back was that the fonts of my writing are very boring and disproportional. Also that there wasn’t enough information on the page for it to look attractive and worth-buying. Some of the feedback that I have got will lead me to creating a better magazine front cover and look at existing magazines of the genre I pick and look at the generic codes and conventions that they follow in order to achieve the same effects and appeal for my target audience.My preliminary contents speaks for itself, not a lot of thought put into each aspects of the design. Following from what I knew, most magazines have their information on the left of the page mainly because its easier to read from left-to-right. The fonts used are basic and un-appealing to the target audience with not enough text to create the high info-count and implementing a sense of quality for the target audience’s money. With the layout, their is a lot of wasted space which if you look at a successful magazine, all the space is exploited to an intended level. Everything on a successful magazine is positioned with purpose and importance, which is not demonstrates on my preliminary work. When making my own magazine I will study the codes and conventions of layout and sizes in order to attain aesthetically professional magazine image.

2. With the collection of magazine front covers I have gathered, it has not only inspired me with some aspects with the layout design features, but also helped me to discover a niche market for my consumer audience that any magazine has based an idea around.From the collection I have here, I have found that:The main image fills the majority of the front cover space.

3. Most shots are within either medium or close-up shot.

4. All the stars are looking at the camera in a direct mode of address.

5. The majority work in a geometrical fashion, tending to work with straight lines and boxes.

6. They all work with around 3 fonts in the writing.

7. No correlation to the background being a solid colour or environment.

8. Magazine name all appear at the top of the magazine.

9. Plenty of sub-pictures demonstrated on the more popular magazines.I am designing an original magazine issue specifically aimed for a music genre magazine. During this I will produce a front cover of the magazine and one content page.Consumer audience

10. Style

11. Originality

12. Representation and ideology for consumer audience

13. Design specification/layout

14. Font representation

15. Colour scheme

16. Useful content to suit consumer audience.

17. Analysing existing magazine products that appeal to my consumer audience.

18. Questionnaire and consumer audience feedback of the suitability of aspects of my magazine.

19. Using Preliminary work to transform my final piece into a better, professional looking.

20. Research on how most magazines are presented.

21. Research little aspects like font size, picture size and type of shot ECT. The representation of Q magazine has a vague and widespread target audience. From the aesthetic look and style of the magazine, it isn’t at all clear what stereotype, demographic, social class or age range. This is why Q is recognised as “The UK’s Biggest Music Magazine” as advertised on the top banner. Its always more personal to a target audience if you appeal exactly to their every needs, but a magazine like Q appeals to just about everyone in some way. The Q logo is placed in the top-left corner out of the way as it is not the main feature for drawing in the target audience. It is cleverly placed next to the eye line of Lady Gaga as a secondary place in where the consumer looks.The main image it centred in the middle of the magazine front cover as the main emphasis of the magazine issue. The image of Lady Gaga is a long/medium shot in direct audience address. The full body shot conveys L.G’s gesture and image in the way she is standing and we get a sense of her persona as an artist. Her informal register of slightly slouching, combined with the direct audience address makes it more relaxed and creates a more personal connection to the reader, it also adds to L.G’s image of rebellious personality makes the image of the magazine look different to the ‘norm’ and offers ideology to the target audience to helps them escape away from their daily life; this relates to the uses and gratifications theory. The Mis En Scene of L.G portrays her in a revealing shot- half naked- then juxtaposed with extravagant, unusual attire, the style of L.G also has intertextual image reference to auteur director Tim Burton’s style of quirky disproportional features. L.G’s image has extravagant features such as her hair being big and elongated creates a quirky look. This conveys the image of L.G’s individual and unusual persona. The naked torso of L.G conveys that this is her in her most natural, purest form, strip her down to her most simplest form and this is her-still mysterious and unusual-which makes the target audience want to know what more there is to her and excited about what else could be in this magazine if she is the leading representation of the magazine. Additionally to this, the two primary colours of L.G’s image is Black and White, with her natural features: skin, hair, face has connotations again to purity and good-will. Is then juxtaposed with the Black quirky clothing which have connotations to mysterious and sophistication-which contrasts and compliments L.G ‘s image of rebellious and normal persona, making her an idol/icon to the target audience. The metallic grey background conveys sophistication and expensive and creates a sense of a luxury item around the magazine. More importantly the grey is a fairly dull colour and emphasises the main image with the defined colour features.The top banner is placed behind the main image in opposite contrasting colours to the rest of the colour scheme of the magazine. It makes the banner stand out with the black on white colour, black connotates to sophistication and professionalism. The white then contrasts with connotations of naturalism and purity and both combined together convey the seriousness of the title ‘The UK’s Biggest Music Magazine’ and gives the magazine high reputation.The font throughout the magazine differs according to the importance of the feature in the magazine. “Lady Gaga” has been put in a very large elegant font as it is the main feature and gives sophistication to the representation of her as an artist. The Photoshop editing of the positioning of the name behind, and in front is done for entertainment purposes. The added features are all done in text format which indicates that the target audience are more intellectual and have more time to read the magazine.