Feedback- November/December

Costume/Props Planning and ideas

For my models i am going to use Nikki Westwood and Sumaiya Bashir. One being of christian religion and the other Asian. The costumes used are going to be the latest fashion, new clothes. This is to attract my target audience. 

My models will be wearing, either a skirt or dress, with an exception of trousers/jeans with boots, as it will look formal and appeal to my audience, if I am to use a long shot for a double page spread. Also the color usage will be not to bright, nude colors to attract customers as the latest fashions will catch the attention of my target audience. 
My season will be based around latest in winter clothes, but let to come Summer cloths too/ Sneak peak to the trending summer upcoming collections. As young teen girls are driven by fashion, I will add this to relate to the pop music magazine, and link my costumes to the way pop celebrities dress. 

 

Location/ Camera Research and ideas

I have used power point to outline roughly my ideas of how I am going to take my picture and where I will set the setting. 
I am going to use female models for my magazine, and chose my picture wisely depending on where I will put them, E.g, double page/ front cover. 

Makeup Research and ideas

Makeup Research and ideas for my front cover on my pop magazine. This is going to help me decide what types of colors to use when doing the makeup of my models, to fit the purpose of attracting my target audience which are teenage girls, in between the age group of 11 to 17.

Photo Planning

Here are examples from other pop magazines, of celebrities who were used to attract customers. I am hoping to get images like these for my music magazine too, as this will make the magazine look very professional and readers will want to buy the magazine more often as they would be attracted by the front cover. 

The main images: 

• Have a certain impression on their faces expressing feelings. Mostly: Happiness/ Being joyful
• Some body language suggests a action to do with what the magazine specializes in that specific article- to catch the readers attention.
• Lighting is bright- looking attractive
• Some shots are close ups/ Medium long shots
• close ups showing facial expression only
• medium shots showing body language/ Body at certain angle/ doing a action
• Makeup- Done very flawlessly/ Photo being edited adding brightness, and blemishing anything unattractive on the image
• Colours are used in the picture, as they are edited into different types of styles
• Smiles to attract customers- Creating happy/ positive atmosphere
• Angles are bodies are sometimes slightly slanted, showing the side of and artists face

When taking my picture for my magazine I am going to use stage lighting to make the image result in looking likes its done professionally. I am also going to use hair and makeup, with my models to make them look more attractive, and pretty. This way the magazine will reach my audience quicker.

Magazine Treatment

This is my magazine Treatment, in other words, a summary of what my magazine is going to include and who it is aimed at. Also it gives a brief introduction into what kind of stuff will be involved in making the magazine, such as color schemes. 

Contents Page Mockups

 

These are my contents page mock up, which I have hand-drawn, and used the house style of the colors pink and purple. 

I have added images of famous pop celebrities in my plan, and pull quotes to interest the reader. 

The advertisement I have added in the contents page is by using a banner, this would attract the readers attention quicker than just having a box with information in it. 

The background for my designs are going to have a house styles pattern to the pages. 

I have given some examples of title pages in my music magazine, and have made reference to page numbers which are after every double page spread. 

Front Cover Mock-ups

These are my front cover Hand-drawn designs.I have used an outline of a woman which is what i plan to use on my original magazine. This is because my pop magazine is aimed at teenage girls, so they will get attracted quicker. The colors mostly used are,pinks and purple as it's a girly theme.I have added advertisement in the corners of the pages to attract my target audience. My audience is mass audience as it is a large portion. 

Double Page layouts

Things to include in a double page spread:

• Bold title

• House style masthead somewhere on the page

• Pictures

• Columns of writing

• Mini images

• Pull Quotes

• Variety of colors

• page number

• Adverts

• Interesting Facts/ real facts

• date of information given 

Contents Page layouts

 Things to include in a contents page: 

• Mini images
• Strap line for the mini images
• Pull quotes
• Numbers of pages
• Titles for each page in the magazine
• House style ,linked background/ fonts
• Bold writing for titles

Front Cover layouts

This to include in a front cover of a magazine: 

• Masthead (title)
• The main image
• Tagline
• The anchorage text
• Cover lines (several/ to do with whats inside the magazine)
• Advertisement/Promotion
• Mini images
• Bar code