Magazine Idea Generation
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Jamie initially planned to do a travel magazine for their GCSE project but felt it wasn't challenging enough. They decided to create an art and photography magazine instead to explore new genres. Jamie was inspired by the simple yet striking covers of magazines like Paper, Time, and Vogue. After considering different ideas, Jamie settled on an art magazine focusing on controversial topics and lesser-known artists. Each issue's color scheme would match the featured artwork. Jamie created a mood board with minimalist examples and planned a 5-week schedule to research, design, and produce the magazine.
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-Draft Ideas
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Question 1 evaluation
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Evaluation q1
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The document discusses themes for a magazine, including font, colors, and images. For font, it recommends keeping the font consistent to tie the magazine together and look professional. For colors, it suggests using a limited color palette of around 6 colors like black, white, and red to look simple but not boring. Images should match the color theme and be placed strategically, with some dominating pages and others as backgrounds. The overall goals are for the magazine to have a modern, simple look using consistent fonts and a focused color scheme.
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The document summarizes Madeleine Ross's evaluation of her research, planning, time management, technical qualities, aesthetic qualities, and audience appeal for her magazine project. Some key points:
- She collected many images from different magazines to inform her project but could have analyzed them more in-depth.
- Mind mapping helped her plan her magazine concept and organize her ideas. She found her color schemes changed during production.
- Shooting her own photos took longer than planned but she finished production on time and added an extra page.
- Her magazine layout includes text over images instead of just in banners like other magazines.
- She uses multiple photos of her model but could have varied the images more.
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Summary:
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1. Front Cover
2. Content Page
3. Double Page Spread
-Content Sample For The Front Cover
-Draft Ideas
1. Final Chic Front Cover Design
-Deconstruction Of Front Cover
2. Final Chic Content Page Design
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3. Final Chic Double Page Spread Design
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-Sample Of "The Life Of A Designer Articles"
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Initial Ideas For My Magazine
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Research 3.
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- The audience is split between those who regularly read magazines and those who don't. The magazine will need to appeal to both groups.
- The audience has a variety of interests in fashion, from very interested to not very interested. The magazine content should feature a range of styles.
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- 2. Initial Reaction To begin with, I was focused on doing a travel magazine. I did media at GCSE and had to create a magazine cover and double page spread. My final idea at GCSE was a travel magazine, which I ended up getting a good grade on. However, I changed my mind as I felt this wasn’t challenging enough for me. I also wanted to explore something new and redoing a magazine cover and DPS gave me the opportunity to explore a genre that I didn’t choose for my GCSE work. Art and photography was a genre that I drafted in my GCSE’s but never developed so I decided that this time around I’d create a magazine based around these subjects. I’m very much attracted to simplicity and minimalism when it comes to magazines because, for me, the front image should be able to say more than what words can. Paper Magazine, Time and Vogue all came to mind when I thought about simple but striking covers and were my immediate inspirations.
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