1. AS MEDIA STUDIES
FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO
RESEARCH & PLANNING
CENTRE NO: 11049
ST FRANCIS XAVIER COLLEGE

2. MY NAME IS: DEBORAH FAKEHINDE
CANDIDATE NO:2610

3. PRELIMINARY PROJECT –
RESEARCH & PLANNING
•How did you think about target audience?
•I knew how to think about the target audience because we had to make a student magazine which
made the target audience much easier because I am also a student so I know the sort of hobbies that
most 16-18 year olds are interested in. Also I looked at other student magazines covers to help design
my front cover and contents page.
•How did awareness of that audience impact upon your visual design and choice of language?
•The awareness of knowing the target audience helped me because the language I was going to use
was colloquial and informal. Moreover it helped me construct ideas because I knew the type of issues
and gossip that circulate around teenagers.
•What key points did you learn about Adobe Photoshop and InDesign in constructing your
artefacts?
• In Photoshop and InDesign I learnt some of technical features in Photoshop and I learned about the
baseline and document grid which helped me a lot to make my front cover and contents page.

4. PRELIMINARY PROJECT
•College Cover •College Contents

5. REFLECTIONS & FEEDBACK
•What would you do differently next time?
•What I would do differently is I will take more picture and make a more detailed plan of my work.
•What kind of feedback did you get that might influence you?
•The feedback I received was that we should not use pictures that do not relate to the magazine or the
text and the images should not look a poster but they should look like a magazine front cover.
•What aspects of your understanding of Adobe Photoshop & InDesign do you need to improve?
•The aspects of Photoshop and InDesign I need to improve the technical features and the skills of using
them to make my work look better and hopefully learn them so that I can get better marks.

6. THE MUSIC GENRE OF MY MUSIC MAGAZINE IS:
•Genre is Gospel. I chose this genre because its attracts a niche market
that enjoy or have interest in gospel music. Furthermore the especially as the
magazines to do with gospel are not updated to youth of today which my
magazine will target.
•Chosen title is Gospel Generation because it identifies my genre and
also my target audience through use of the word ‘Generation’ consisting of how it
targeting the generation of youth but also the ‘Generation’ that has interest into Gospel
music.

7. SO I RESEARCHED THIS GENRE OF MUSIC
PUBLICATION AND STUDIED:
•Model 1 •Model 2
The significance of the masthead and the effect. As well as the main cover line and the other cover
lines and the use and font and the alignment which contributed to the layout of the magazine and the
relation to my genre. Moreover the colour scheme which attributed to the construction of magazine.

8. WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS WAS…..
•Cover Design:
•Cover Lines:
The alignment of the cover lines has to precise
The central image may be the background image or it
could be over lapped with a colour
Image must relate to the genre Have to have different size font
Must have the elements that apply to your magazine as Use your colour scheme within the cover lines
well as the elements that relate to your genre.

9. FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE….
•Target Audience: My target audience is aimed at 16-20
that enjoy gospel music.
•Frequency: Monthly
•Cover price: £2.00
•Publisher: Deborah Fakehinde
The magazine is target at a niche market of youth aged 16-20
that like gospel music, in which I have demonstrated through
•Unique Selling Point: elements of my masthead, image and my cover lines which
consist of the hobbies and influences that youth between 16-20
enjoy. Also because many Gospel magazines range at an older
target market this is the reason that my magazine is aiming at a
younger target market to widen the Gospel market.

10. The strapline
underlines how
that the magazine
is made for
The masthead
Gospel music.
‘Gospel Generation’
Everything in the
elevates the what
magazine relates
the magazine
to elements of
stands for and it
the Gospel.
appeals to the
target audience
straight away.
The cover lines I
have chosen relate
to the genre of The main image is of
gospel and the the 3 young models
elements that will that are in choir robe
interest my target in a long shot. The
audience illustration of the
central image
compliments to the
colour scheme which
is purple and white.
Furthermore the
young models in the
picture shows the
relation to the
magazine

11. HERE ARE THE 4 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS I
SHOT FOR THE PROJECT……

12. I MODIFIED EACH PHOTOGRAPH; HERE IS THE
ORIGINAL NEXT TO THE FINAL VERSION:
•Raw 1 •Final 1
•Here is how I changed the photograph and why
•I changed the picture through Photoshop. I made the picture black and
white and then I cropped parts of the background out. Making the picture
black and white even with parts of the background showing it still creates
the focus on model in the image.

13. AND THE SECOND ONE:
•Raw 2 •Final 2
•Here is how I changed the photograph and why
• I changed this picture because there were difficulties in placing
the picture into InDesign. So I cropped the picture and took the
main image of the model in the studio.