My magazine planning

1. Planning

2. What are the main elements of a magazine cover?
 Main image
 Text
 Colour scheme
What different text elements will we have?
 Masthead
 Main cover line
 Feature article
 Additional cover lines
 Date line (date, issue number, price)
What additional elements can we find?
 Bar code
 Skyline/Header
 Strapline
 Flashes
How should you plan the colour of your text in the magazine cover?
 Colour scheme: Matching colours in text and main image.
How many colours should you use in your cover lines?
 The main two colours in the image + black or white.

3. Plan the design of your magazine cover:
 What graphic elements do you need to include?
 Masthead
 Main cover line
 Colour scheme
 Barcode/ Dateline
 Skyline
 Main image
 Font types
 Cover line
 Website
 What is the name of your magazine (masthead)?
 Today
 CA Magazine (current affairs)
 What is the main feature (main cover line) in your magazine? (Global warming/Covid19/Post-Truth/ Brexit/ Trump/etc…)
 Corona Virus as it is currently the most popular affair.
 What other features (cover lines) are you including in your magazine?
 Political affairs (Trump and Boris plans)
 School and how it affecting children at home
 Mental health of the lockdown
 What will your main image look like? What other images are you going to use? (Remember that you must include at least four original images in each of the two
magazine covers/contents pages) 4 x 2 = 8 images in total
 People on the train in corona protection
 People in a hospital during Covid-19
 The prime ministers door
 A drawing (if allowed) of Boris and Trump holding the world
 Racism in Chinese families- Picture of Asian person holding a sign “I don’t have corona”
 A child at home doing some sort of work (how they’re coping in quarantine)
 A teen looking depressed not enjoying lockdown
 Stockpiling and the supermarkets
 Codes and conventions of current affairs magazines. What are the codes and conventions of this genre? What is your target audience? How are you going to use
those codes and conventions to appeal to your target audience's interests and fulfil their expectations?
 Target audience- Age 24- 54
 Masthead , contents page, strapline, bold colours, Image
 As it is current affairs presented conventionally it will stand out and the customer will want to read it.
 Composition of your contents page: Where are you going to place your text, so it will make sense when reading it and will allow the audience to see the image
clearly?
 It will be conventionally place in reading format left to right possibly in two separate columns
 Use of colours: What are the main two colours in your image? Use these for your texts (title/ headlines)
 Red, White or Black dependant on the background of the magazine. Contrasting colours t0 be bold and stand out.

4. A level Media Studies

5.  What is the primary target audience of your magazine? Explain
it in terms of DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIO-ECONOMIC and
PSYCHOGRAPHIC profiling.
 B and C1
 Mainstreamers, succeeders.
 What is the secondary target audience of your magazine?
Explain it in terms of DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIO-ECONOMIC and
PSYCHOGRAPHIC profiling.
 C2 and A
 Explorers, Reformers
This will be determinant to decide the DATE (periodicity) and PRICE
of your magazine:
1. How much is your magazine going to cost (PRICE)? £4
2. How often will your magazine be published (DATE)? Every week
to keep up to date

6.  What is the name of your magazine?Think of
a word that conveys the particular genre of
your magazine (current affairs)
 Today CA
 It stands for todays current affairs
 It rhymes therefore is catchy

7.  How many SECTIONS will your magazine have?
 8
 What will be ALL the contents that you will include in
each section of the magazine? (Think of the
headings/subheadings for your contents page) Use the list
that you made in our previous lessons.
 UK
 Europe
 US
 China
 International
 Finance
 Politics
 Business

8. I will be creating a Current Affairs magazine for my course work.
Magazine Title: After doing research and thinking of my target audience I have decided that my magazine
will be called “ TODAY CA” it stands for todays current affairs.
Chosen genre:The reason I have chosen Covid-19 as my main topic genre is simply because it is currently
the most talked about affair globally. I think that people would in what’s happening as a result of the
outbreak. Most magazines are talking about the disease itself or the updates from the prime minister
however not many are talking about the effects and how its affecting homes. My magazine will talk about
both, this is so the target audience can keep up to date with the updates as well as learning about the
effects it has.
The main cover line: This will be all about covid-19 as it is my chosen genre. It will be about the effects on
people.There will be additional cover lines talking about my other chosen subjects; Boris and Trump,
mental health due to lockdown, Racism is Asian families, stockpiling and supermarkets etc.
Target Audience profile: My target audience consists of female and male aged 24-54.They would be
middle- upper class as they are the type of people to be interested and understand the outbreak.They will
have a higher literacy understanding. The socio graphic profile of my target audience will be B and C1 and
the psychographic profile of my target audience will be mainstreamers/ succeeders.
Contents page:The magazine will have a lengthy contents page with sections such as UK, US, Finance and
economics etc.They will all contain the latest headlines in that country/ section.
Date and price: the date and price will be conventionally placed and will cost £4.