The document summarizes a student magazine production project. The student created a magazine cover and contents page for a magazine targeted at teenage girls aged 14-19. To design the magazine, the student conducted research through questionnaires to determine favorite colors and ages. The cover features typical magazine elements like a large photo, plugs, stories and publication details. The contents page lists additional articles and sections. The goal was to apply key magazine conventions and target the teenage female audience.

1. Production Project: Magazine
By Aziza and Terri

2. We asked 56 girls, aged
between 14 and 19 what
their favourite colour
was. Here is what we
found out.

3. We also asked 56 girls
how old they were, for
research, here is what we
found out.

6. Simply make up, not too much
Different
Girly colours but not or too little, shows that you
font from the
too much its don’t need loads of make up to
actual Vogue
sickening be beautiful
font. Also
more causal No capital Smile, isn’t fake, it
font and natural.
letters, informal.
more
informal Catchy and helps
font.Catchy slogan and with self esteem
also can help with
self esteem.
Celebrity Youthful
endorsement, someone we all language, language
know and can aspire to. that all teens
understand.
Relaxed posture and pose, looks
Bright colours, not casual and natural.
all really girly.
Plugs what is inside
the mag.
Writing is not all
Relationship advice
straight as wonky
and help.
writing adds a bit
more interest.
Bright and smart
casual dress. Not just fashion but
real news too. News
that teens will
actually read as its in
a teen mag.

7. Mine and Aziza’s magazine will be called Amiga, it will have a similar look to other magazines to
help appeal to our Target Audience which is teenage girls from around 14 to 19.
In our magazine there will be several different topics. Such as Fashion, Make-up, Shopping tips,
Self help pages, super scrimping tips and agony aunt pages and lots more.
To create our mock up for the magazine front cover we will use Microsoft Publisher, aided by
Photoshop. Then to make the final product, we will use Adobe InDesign.
The colour scheme will be not all girly colours like pinks and reds, but based around the colours
that were most liked in our questionnaires.
Also the magazine name “Amiga” is Spanish and it means a feminine friend.

8. Name: Elsa
Age: 14
Gender: female
Where she lives: Bromley
Interests: Fashion, Make-up, new in
fashion, hair and shopping
Hobbies: shopping, hair and make
up on friends, reading fashion and
style magazines, social
networking, being with her friends.
Fave colour: Purple
Social Media: Twitter, Facebook and
Tumblr

9. Date line and
website address
Mast Head
Cover line
1
Plug Main
Cover
line
Quotes
from main
story
Footer
bar Bar code

10. Shoppi Where
Conte ng tips to
Front Fashio Fashio Fashio
nts (super shop!!
Cover n pg 1 n pg 2 n pg 3
page scrimp Great
s) offers
Revisio Must Latest Ask Ask
Latest
n watch music Star Wendy Wendy
advert celeb
techni “n” “n” signs & &
Goss!
ques listen film Millie Millie
Cringe Cringe Back
! ! cover
Those Those with
Mome mome advert
nts! nts! s

11. Location – Crystal Palace Looking away photos Close up shots or mid
Park! shot
Extreme close up

12. 24TH May 2012 www.amigamag.com £1.99
CRINGY
MOMENTS!
READ ABOUT
OTHERS!
READ ALL ABOUT THE CELEB GOSSIP!! BIG NEWS!

13. Product and Task Evaluation
• I set out to create a magazine cover for teenage girls between 14 – 19. But in the end I ended up making
not only the magazine cover but the contents page too. I went about making a magazine cover for a
teenage girls magazine called Amiga by doing various research and lots of planning. For research I made
questionnaires which I got people to fill out. The main two questions were “what is your favourite
colour?” and “how old are you?” these were the main questions because I needed to find out what main
colours to put on our magazine cover and the age range to who we make the magazine for. The planning
for the magazine cover was to create mood boards, analyse other magazines and to create a rough
sketch/a flat plan of the cover. I also had to create a quick mock up, but that didn’t follow the mock up
because we could have done better with the real thing then the mock up. The key conventions of a
magazine is that it has a large picture on the cover with a few plugs and sub stories, a barcode and
price, along with the date line and web address by the title of the magazine. My medium of this project is
a print out as it is a magazine cover. I intended on using these in my project by following the key
conventions of a magazine cover and contents page. I targeted my audience by doing research into who is
the best age range or target audience to target. I used the information gathered into to put together a
plan and then finalise everything, the colour scheme and writing styles.